NAEP Technical DocumentationProcessing Assessment Materials

Printing Student Booklets, Questionnaires, and Tracking Forms

Packaging and Distribution

Processing Student Booklets and Questionnaires

Creating and Delivering Data Files

Quality Control

Storage of Assessment Materials

In each assessment cycle, the NAEP materials-processing staff is responsible for the following tasks that are related to student booklets, questionnaires, and tracking forms for each subject area and sample in the NAEP assessment:

printing test booklets and questionnaires;
packaging and distributing materials;
receipt control;
data capture through image and optical mark recognition scanning;
data editing and validation;
quality control;
upload of open-ended responses into ePEN, including scanned images from paper booklets, text files from technology-based items, and image files from one technology-based item;
creation of training sets for new items;
training and performance scoring of constructed response items;
data file creation; and
inventory control and materials storage.

The links on the right provide information about the procedures for administering the assessment in a paper and pencil format. For information on the 2009 science interactive computer tasks (ICT), see an overview of interactive computer tasks.

Last updated 11 July 2017 (GF)

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