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Good Teaching, Good Testing: A NAEP Overview

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NAEP Assessment Design

Two Forms of Sampling

• Student Sampling National samples – approx. 10,000 students per grade, per subject

  State Samples - 2,500 per grade, per subject

• Item Sampling - matrix sampling design; each student takes only a small portion of the items in a subject area (about 60 minutes of testing time)