NAEP Technical DocumentationNAEP Processing Assessment Materials

Printing Student Booklets, Questionnaires, and Tracking Forms

Processing Student Booklets and Questionnaires

In each assessment cycle, the NAEP materials distribution processing scoring staff is responsible for the following tasks that are related to student booklets, questionnaires, and administrative forms for each subject area and sample in the paper based and digitally based NAEP assessment:

printing assessment booklets for paper based, and school and teacher questionnaires for paper based and digitally based assessments;
packaging and distributing assessment booklets for paper based; and questionnaires, subject ancillaries, and accommodation ancillaries to administrators for the paper based and digitally based assessments;
receipt control of paper based booklets and digitally based files;
data capture through image and optical mark recognition scanning of the paper based documents;
data editing and validation;
quality control;
upload of open-ended responses into NAEP's electronic scoring system, including scanned images from paper booklets, and text and image files from digitally based items;
creation of scoring training sets for new items;
training and performance scoring of constructed response items;
data file creation; and
inventory control and materials storage.

Last updated 09 May 2022 (SK)

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