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Student Booklets for the Reading Assessment

The instruments used in the NAEP reading assessment are composed of blocks containing reading passages and items from previous NAEP assessments, as well as blocks that are newly developed for the current assessment. Administering the same blocks of items across years allows for the reporting of trends in reading performance. At the same time, developing new sets of items makes it possible to release some items for public use. In some assessment years, one or more blocks at each grade are released to the public and can be accessed via the NAEP Questions Tool.

The 2000 assessment was given only at grade 4. Test developers chose seven blocks from the 1998 assessment. In addition, they created one new block. One block was released to the public.

The table below displays the student booklet configurations for the NAEP 2000 reading assessment (administered to grade 4 only).

Student booklet configuration for the grade 4 reading assessment, by background and cognitive block designation, and booklet number: 2000
Booklet number	General background questions	Cognitive block 1	Cognitive block 2	Reading background questions	Motivation background questions
1	BR1	R4	R3	RB1	RB
2	BR1	R3	R5	RB1	RB
3	BR1	R5	R9	RB1	RB
4	BR1	R9	R4	RB1	RB
5	BR1	R4	R5	RB1	RB
6	BR1	R3	R9	RB1	RB
7	BR1	R6¹	R10	RB1	RB
8	BR1	R10	R7	RB1	RB
9	BR1	R7	R8	RB1	RB
10	BR1	R8	R6¹	RB1	RB
11	BR1	R6¹	R7	RB1	RB
12	BR1	R10	R8	RB1	RB
13	BR1	R7	R4	RB1	RB
14	BR1	R8	R3	RB1	RB
15	BR1	R5	R6¹	RB1	RB
16	BR1	R9	R10	RB1	RB
¹ One new block was developed at grade 4 for the 2000 assessment: R6. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000 Reading Assessment.

Last updated 10 June 2008 (MH)

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Student Booklets for the Reading Assessment

Last updated 10 June 2008 (MH)

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