Processing 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 are responsible for several tasks related to student booklets, questionnaires, and rosters for each subject area and sample in the NAEP assessment:

• printing of student booklets, questionnaires, and tracking forms;

• packaging and distribution of assessment materials;

• processing of student booklets and questionnaires as they are returned from the field;

• scoring of cognitive items;

• creating and delivering data files to NAEP data analysts;

• quality control; and

• storage of assessment materials following the scoring process.

To better plan and document NAEP activities, beginning with the 2001 assessment, the materials staff implemented its Capability Maturity Model (CMM), a working document that evolves throughout an assessment cycle. The CMM was introduced to complement the existing Phase Review System (PRS) documentation. Both the CMM and PRS include a version control page and are signed off by the NAEP team.

Processing Schedules and Overall Counts for 2003
Processing Schedules and Overall Counts for 2002
Processing Schedules and Overall Counts for 2001
Processing Schedules and Overall Counts for 2000

Last updated 02 October 2008 (KL)

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