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NAEP Technical DocumentationStudent Sampling Procedure for the 2001 National Main Assessment

In the 2001 assessment, 'e-sampling' was used for the first time. In this process, the majority of participating schools submitted their student lists to the NAEP sampling staff via the Internet. For those participating schools that chose not to submit their student lists via the 'e-sampling' system, field personnel drew the samples in the field.

If the field personnel found new students added to the grade-eligible list at the time of assessment, then a supplementary sample was drawn of the new students. This sample was drawn using the same sampling rates as was used for the original list, but with no oversampling of minority or SD/LEP students. If the number of new students exceeded 20 percent of the earlier student list, the field personnel were asked to discard the original sample and draw a new sample in the field

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