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1. The design of the Reading Framework of 2015 is based on current scientific research in reading. In keeping with Governing Board policy, it advocates a particular approach to instruction.

2. The National Assessment Governing Board, the policymaking body for NAEP, has defined several parameters for the reading assessment. They include all but:

3. The NAEP Reading Assessment is guided by a definition of reading that reflects scientific research and states that reading is an active and complex process that involves:

4. Readers draw on the ideas and information they have acquired from text to meet a particular purpose or situational need. This is an example of:

5. The background knowledge that students bring to the NAEP Reading Assessment differs widely. To accommodate these differences:

6. The association between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension is strong; students who know the meanings of many words and who also can use the context of what they read to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words are better:

7. NAEP assesses reading skills that students use:

8. Research has indicated that one advantage of literary texts is that they possess distinct organizational patterns, such as sequence or comparison and contrast, which is designed to help readers organize their sense of what may occur next in the reading.

9. The NAEP Reading Assessment is designed to measure the academic achievement of all test takers at a given grade level; hence, students with disabilities and English language learners are included in the assessment sample.

10. Types of text refers to the source of the stimulus material per se and not the idealized norms of a genre.

11. Text structures and features define the organization and elements within the text.

12. The term "creative aptitude" is used to encompass the non-specific techniques that an author chooses to relay an intended message.

13. At grades 8 and 12, more complex genres of fiction are common. including satires, parodies, science fiction, and:

14. Authors select from a range of stylistic devices to enhance their presentation, which are referred to as:

15. Literary nonfiction is an example of mixed text because it uses literary techniques usually associated with fiction or poetry and:

16. Examples of poetry text features at grade 4 include all but:

17. Like fiction, poetry has ___________ functions, and structures further guided by literary structures and textual features.

18. Informational text on the NAEP Reading Assessment will be of three types and include all but:

19. Many forms of informational text pose an argument or attempt to persuade readers toward a particular viewpoint. These texts present information:

20. Research indicates that adults spend considerably more time reading documents (i.e. information in matrix or graphic form) than they do reading prose materials.

21. Assessment passages are chosen to be similar in length to what students actually encounter in their in-school and out-of-school reading; thus passage lengths for grade 12 should be 400-1000 words.

22. Comprehending any reading passage requires knowing the meaning of the important content-bearing words of that passage, and how they interact in the passage, so the measurement of word meaning by NAEP should be integrated with the measurement of passage comprehension.

23. Cognitive targets are the mental processes or kinds of thinking that underlie reading comprehension, and NAEP targets include the ability to absorb/evaluate, retrieve/communicate, and focus/distinguish.

24. Results of the NAEP Reading Assessment administrations are reported in terms of average scores for groups of students on the NAEP 0-500 scale and as percentages of students who attain each of the three achievement levels that include all but:

25. NAEP reports are useful in providing trend results over time to inform decisions and allocations of resources and framing of policy about reading. The questions that NAEP addresses include each of the following except: