NAEP Technical DocumentationUpdating Lists of Selected Students

To make sure that every eligible student has a chance to be sampled, School Coordinators are asked to provide a current list of students in the sampled grade after January 1. The current list is compared to the original list of students submitted for sampling to reveal any newly identified students, and then a sample of these students is selected. The sampled newly identified students are added to the school's roster of participants.

Also during the preassessment period, School Coordinators identify and remove students identified as withdrawn or graduated, ineligible because they do not attend campus (for example, students who are home schooled or who attend classes off site, such as at a community college or an art institute), or who are neither enrolled nor attending the school in the grade to be assessed. Finally, if any sampled student's information was previously unavailable or otherwise not recorded, School Coordinators provide the most current information.

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