NAEP Technical DocumentationGeneral Sessions

During general sessions, field staff conduct assessments according to established guidelines. Their responsibilities include:

• clarifying student questions about how or where to record answers,

• ensuring that students are working through the assessment sections,

• in paper based assessment sessions, ensuring that students who have finished sections early have not gone back to previous sections or worked ahead in the booklets,

• handling difficult situations pertaining to students' behaviors or attitudes, and

• responding to and managing other unexpected situations that may arise.
  

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