NAEP Technical DocumentationPreparing and Transmitting Completed Assessment Materials and Data

Field staff conduct a series of quality control checks on assessment materials as they prepare these items for return to the NAEP processing and scoring center. These quality control checks include the following:

• accounting for all assessment documents, including session booklets, digitally based testing materials and hardware, administration forms, and questionnaires,

• checking that student and school staff names do not appear on any assessment documents, and

• completing all required administrative information on all assessment documents.

Once these checks have been performed and verified, the materials are packed, sealed, and returned to the materials processing and scoring center. Field staff are required to ship hard copy materials and to transmit digitally based assessment data within one business day.

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