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Trial Urban District Assessment in Reading Top Stories
- Average reading scores increased between 2005 and 2007 in 2 of 11 districts at grade 4 and 4 of 11 districts at grade 8.
- The average scores for students from lower-income families increased between 2005 and 2007 in 2 of the 11 participating districts at grade 4 and 3 of 11 at grade 8.
- Fourth-graders in seven districts and eighth-graders in eight districts scored comparably or higher than those in large central city schools nationally.
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Do you know: Find out how students answered specific questions on the TUDA Reading assessment by taking the following quiz.
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Question 1: What percentage of fourth-graders in large central cities were able to recognize an important lesson based on a story's theme?
A) About 50%
B) About 60%
C) About 70%
D) About 80%
Question 2: What percentage of fourth-graders in large central cities were able to use a character trait to make a comparison?
A) More than 50%
B) More than 60%
C) More than 70%
D) More than 80%
Question 3: What percentage of eighth-graders in large central cities recognized explicit information from a highly-detailed article?
A) About 50%
B) About 60%
C) About 70%
D) About 80%
Question 4: What percentage of eighth-graders in large central cities were able to support an opinion with text information or related prior knowledge?
A) About 50%
B) About 60%
C) About 70%
D) About 80%
Answers: Question 1) D, Question 2) A, Question 3) A, and Question 4) C.
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More about TUDA Reading: Find out more details about the TUDA Reading assessment.
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The NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) is designed to explore the feasibility of using NAEP to report on the performance of fourth- and eighth-grade public school students at the district level. Eleven urban districts participated in the fourth TUDA in reading in 2007. Students from these districts took the same assessment as those students sampled nationally for the main NAEP reading assessment, and their data were included as part of the national and state results presented in other 2007 NAEP reports.
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