Overview of 2005 Reading Assessment Procedures

To find out more about the 2005 reading assessment, explore the pages below that discuss the design, collection, analysis, and reporting procedures used by the NAEP program.

• What the reading assessment measures and its framework
• Design of the assessment
• NAEP samples
• Standards for participation
• NAEP inclusion policy
• Data collection and scoring
• Data Analyses and IRT Scaling
• Item Maps
• Weighting
• Interpreting NAEP reading results (includes drawing inferences about results, analyzing group differences with averages and percentages, reporting groups, and cautions in interpretations)