NAEP Technical DocumentationStudent Test Forms and Booklets for the 2018 Civics Assessment

Prior to 2018, NAEP civics was assessed using paper-based booklets that were created by combining blocks of items. The 2018 civics digitally based assessment (DBA) was designed to ensure that digitally based instruments measured the same content and skills as the paper-based instruments. Test forms for the civics DBA contained trans-adapted items that were directly transferred from a paper-based to a digital format, trans-adapted items that were modified from the paper format to accommodate administration in a DBA environment, and new DBA items that had no corresponding version in the 2014 civics paper-based assessment (PBA).

The tables below display the NAEP 2018 civics assessment digital test form and paper-based booklet configurations for grade 8.

Student test form configuration for the civics DBA grade 8 national assessment, by cognitive and contextual block designation: 2018

Form number	Section 1: Cognitive block 1	Section 2: Cognitive block 2	Section 3: General and civics student contextual questions
351	PA	PB	CP
352	PB	PC	CP
353	PC	PD	CP
354	PD	PE	CP
355	PE	PF	CP
356	PF	PG	CP
357	PG	PA	CP
358	PA	PC	CP
359	PB	PD	CP
360	PC	PE	CP
361	PD	PF	CP
362	PE	PG	CP
363	PF	PA	CP
364	PG	PB	CP
365	PA	PD	CP
366	PB	PE	CP
367	PC	PF	CP
368	PD	PG	CP
369	PE	PA	CP
370	PF	PB	CP
371	PG	PC	CP
372	PL	PM	CP
373	PA	PB	CP
374	PN	PO	CP
NOTE: DBA = Digitally based assessment. PA through PO represent unique blocks of cognitive civics DBA items. All grade 8 cognitive civics DBA blocks are 30 minutes long. Forms 372–374 are accommodation forms. An accommodation form contains blocks with all items or a subset of items from non-accommodation blocks (e.g., a bilingual form has a one-to-one correspondence to a non-accommodation form, but a color-contrast form may not present certain items). Only test forms for operational assessments are included in this table. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2018 Civics Assessment.

Student booklet configuration for the civics PBA grade 8 national assessment, by cognitive and contextual block designation: 2018

Booklet number	Section 1: Cognitive block 1	Section 2: Cognitive block 2	Section 3: General student contextual questions	Section 4: Civics student contextual questions
301	C3	C4	D1	CB1
302	C3	C5	D1	CB1
303	C4	C5	D1	CB1
304	C4	C6	D1	CB1
305	C5	C6	D1	CB1
306	C5	C7	D1	CB1
307	C6	C7	D1	CB1
308	C6	C8	D1	CB1
309	C7	C8	D1	CB1
310	C7	C9	D1	CB1
311	C8	C9	D1	CB1
312	C8	C10	D1	CB1
313	C9	C10	D1	CB1
314	C9	C3	D1	CB1
315	C10	C3	D1	CB1
316	C10	C4	D1	CB1
317	C3	C6	D1	CB1
318	C3	C7	D1	CB1
319	C4	C7	D1	CB1
320	C4	C8	D1	CB1
321	C5	C8	D1	CB1
322	C5	C9	D1	CB1
323	C6	C9	D1	CB1
324	C6	C10	D1	CB1
325	C7	C10	D1	CB1
326	C7	C3	D1	CB1
327	C8	C3	D1	CB1
328	C8	C4	D1	CB1
329	C9	C4	D1	CB1
330	C9	C5	D1	CB1
331	C10	C5	D1	CB1
332	C10	C6	D1	CB1
NOTE: PBA = Paper-based assessment. C3 through C10 represent unique blocks of cognitive civics PBA items. All grade 8 cognitive civics PBA blocks are 25 minutes long. Only test forms for operational assessments are included in this table. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2018 Civics Assessment.

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