National Assessment of Educational Progress: Algebra Assessment Questions

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Grade 8 Algebra

Sample Questions and Answers

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This booklet contains sample items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Additional items can be accessed at www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrls.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
NAEP Grade 8 Algebra

Contents Introduction 3 Question 1 – Identify equation modeling a scenario 4

Question 2 – Identify a non-equivalent equation 4

Question 3 – Evaluate equation for a given value in context 5

Question 4 – Identify equation modeling perimeter 6

Question 5 – Determine equation to model a situation 6

Question 6 – Determine equation of a line given a point and the slope 7

Question 7 – Find interval of largest change on graph 8

Question 8 – Find solution to equation 9

Question 9 – Interpret a linear equation in content 9

Question 10 – Recognize effect of sign on operations 10

Introduction

This practice Algebra test includes a sample of publicly released items from NAEP. Included with each item are the correct answer (indicated by an asterisk) and the distracters; the percentage of Florida’s responses to each of the possible answers; and the Description, Difficulty, and Complexity of each item.

Additional publicly released items and item data may be accessed through the NAEP Questions Tool (NQT) at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrlsx/default.aspx. The NQT is an interactive tool that provides access to over 2,000 released questions from NAEP assessments in all NAEP subject areas. It is also used to access NAEP assessment items, their correct answers and distracters, and their scoring results by subject, grade, item type, difficulty, content classification, frameworks, year, and key words.

For more information about NAEP results,