NAEP Technical DocumentationNew and Common Blocks for the 2017 Reading Assessment

New blocks and blocks common to the previous assessment, reading combined national and state assessment, by block source and grade: 2017

Grade	New blocks	Blocks common to 2015
4	R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10	none
8	R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13	none
NOTE: Block R9 for grade 4 and block R11 for grade 8 are new blocks; other blocks are trans-adapted blocks. In 2017, grade 12 was not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2017 Reading Assessment.

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