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NAEP Technical DocumentationStudent Booklets for the 2002 Reading Assessment

In 2002, instrument developers chose 26 blocks from the 2000 assessment—7 at the fourth-grade level, 9 at the eighth-grade level, and 10 at the twelfth-grade level. In addition, they created one new block at each grade level. Three blocks were released to the public (one at each grade) and can be viewed on the NAEP Questions Tool.

The tables below display the NAEP 2002 reading assessment student booklet configurations for grade 4, grade 8, and grade 12 .

Student booklet configuration, grade 4 reading assessment: 2002

Booklet number	Cognitive block 1	Cognitive block 2	Background question directions	General student background questions	Reading background questions
R1	R3	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R2	R4	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R3	R5	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R4	R6	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R5	R7	R81	BD	D1	BR1
R6	R81	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R7	R9	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R8	R10	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R9	R3	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R10	R4	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R11	R5	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R12	R6	R81	BD	D1	BR1
R13	R7	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R14	R81	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R15	R9	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R16	R10	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R17	R3	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R18	R4	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R19	R5	R81	BD	D1	BR1
R20	R6	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R21	R7	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R22	R81	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R23	R9	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R24	R10	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R25	R3	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R26	R4	R81	BD	D1	BR1
R27	R5	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R28	R6	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R29	R7	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R30	R81	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R31	R9	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R32	R10	R6	BD	D1	BR1
1 One new block was developed at grade 4 for the 2002 assessment: R8. NOTE: The legend for the table is as follows: R = Reading; BD = Background question directions; D = General Student background questions; BR = Background questions for reading. Although similar block numbers exist at different grades (e.g., Block R3 appears at grades 4, 8, and 12), the items that compose each block are different. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2002 Reading Assessment.

Student booklet configuration, grade 12 reading assessment: 2002

Booklet number	Cognitive block 1	Cognitive block 2	Background question directions	General student background questions	Reading background questions
R1	R3	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R2	R4	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R3	R5	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R4	R6	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R5	R7	R8	BD	D1	BR1
R6	R8	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R7	R9	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R8	R10	R111	BD	D1	BR1
R9	R111	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R10	R3	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R11	R4	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R12	R5	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R13	R6	R8	BD	D1	BR1
R14	R7	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R15	R8	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R16	R9	R111	BD	D1	BR1
R17	R10	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R18	R111	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R19	R3	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R20	R4	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R21	R5	R8	BD	D1	BR1
R22	R6	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R23	R7	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R24	R8	R111	BD	D1	BR1
R25	R9	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R26	R10	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R27	R111	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R28	R3	R7	BD	D1	BR1
R29	R4	R8	BD	D1	BR1
R30	R5	R9	BD	D1	BR1
R31	R6	R10	BD	D1	BR1
R32	R7	R111	BD	D1	BR1
R33	R8	R3	BD	D1	BR1
R34	R9	R4	BD	D1	BR1
R35	R10	R5	BD	D1	BR1
R36	R111	R6	BD	D1	BR1
R37	R132		BD	D1	BR1
R38	R142		BD	D1	BR1
1 One new block developed at grade 12 for the 2002 assessment: R11. 2 Blocks R13 and R14 were 50-minute blocks. All other booklets contained 2 25-minutes blocks.  NOTE: The legend for the table is as follows: R = Reading; BD = Background question directions; D = General Student background questions; BR = Background questions for reading. Although similar block numbers exist at different grades (e.g., Block R3 appears at grades 4, 8, and 12), the items that compose each block are different. Although similar block numbers exist at different grades (e.g., Block R3 appears at grades 4, 8, and 12), the items that compose each block are different. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2002 Reading Assessment.

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