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Good Teaching, Good Testing: A NAEP Overview

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NAEP Test Development Steps

Five Year Cycle (e.g., reading)

• Framework Development Process (2003)
  Assessment frameworks (content)
  Specifications (detailed blueprint)
  Preliminary achievement level descriptions
• Test development (2004)
• Item reviews (content, bias, etc.) (2004)
• Pilot testing; then more reviews (2005)
• National field testing; more reviews (2006)
• Setting achievement levels (2006)
• Operational testing (2007)
• Report preparation and review (2007)
• Release of NAEP results (2007 w/in 6 months)