NAEP Technical DocumentationStudent Test Forms and Booklets for the 2018 U.S. History Assessment

Prior to 2018, NAEP U.S. history was assessed using paper-based booklets that were created by combining blocks of items. The 2018 U.S. history 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 U.S. history 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 U.S. history paper-based assessment (PBA).

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

Student test form configuration for the U.S. history 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 U.S. history student contextual questions
551	HA	HB	CH
552	HB	HC	CH
553	HC	HD	CH
554	HD	HE	CH
555	HE	HF	CH
556	HF	HG	CH
557	HG	HH	CH
558	HH	HI	CH
559	HI	HA	CH
560	HA	HC	CH
561	HB	HD	CH
562	HC	HE	CH
563	HD	HF	CH
564	HE	HG	CH
565	HF	HH	CH
566	HG	HI	CH
567	HH	HA	CH
568	HI	HB	CH
569	HA	HD	CH
570	HB	HE	CH
571	HC	HF	CH
572	HD	HG	CH
573	HE	HH	CH
574	HF	HI	CH
575	HG	HA	CH
576	HH	HB	CH
577	HI	HC	CH
578	HA	HE	CH
579	HB	HF	CH
580	HC	HG	CH
581	HD	HH	CH
582	HE	HI	CH
583	HF	HA	CH
584	HG	HB	CH
585	HH	HC	CH
586	HI	HD	CH
587	HL	HM	CH
588	HA	HB	CH
589	HL	HN	CH
NOTE: DBA = Digitally based assessment. HA through HN represent unique blocks of cognitive U.S. history DBA items. All grade 8 cognitive U.S. history DBA blocks are 30 minutes long. Forms 587–589 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 U.S. History Assessment.

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