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K-12 education classrooms are usually equipped with computers, and digital tools are an integral part of the learning environment. To address the increased role of technology in classrooms, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is transitioning the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from paper and pencil to digital assessments. NCES is utilizing established best practices for NAEP to remain at the forefront of innovation and a leader in large-scale assessments. NCES is also exploring new testing methods and question types to reflect the growing use of technology in education.</p><p> NAEP digital assessments, which are administered on tablets or laptop computers, use dynamic and innovative technologies to provide an engaging assessment experience for students and more meaningful data about students’ skills and knowledge for educators. With digitally based assessments, students are asked to receive, gather, and report information just as they do in their everyday lives. These new assessments include universal design principles, making it possible for more students to participate without special accommodation sessions. The goal is for all students to have a seamless assessment administration, regardless of their ability. These goals and more are highlighted in the <em>"Going Digital: NAEP Assessments for the Future"</em> video within this section. </p></div><div class="split-panel"><div class="video-asset ga-dba-video-player"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-RJ4k0I6h2c?wmode=transparent&wmode=transparent" width= "500" height= "300" frameborder= id=""><p>Your browser does not support iFrame.</p></iframe> </div></div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-v2-full-card-multi-button-panel"><h2>What's Happening Now?</h2><div class="panel-body"><div class="full-card"><div class="full-card-text"> <span>NAEP 2024-2025</span><span>During the 2024-2025 school year, the NAEP schedule includes Long-Term Trend (LTT) assessments in mathematics and reading at ages 9, 13, and 17. LTT Age 13 administration will take place from October-December 2024; LTT Age 9 from January-March 2025; and LTT Age 17 from March-May 2025. NCES will also administer the NAEP 2025 field test to assess students at grades 4, 8, and 12 in mathematics and reading. The field test is part of a transition to administering NAEP using school computers and Internet, which will allow students to have a more authentic assessment experience by using a device with which they are familiar. Results from the field test will not be released but will inform future NAEP assessments.</span> <div class="multi-buttons"> <a class="multi-button ga-dba-calendar" href="/nationsreportcard/about/calendar.aspx" target="_self"> <span class="indicator">Assessment Calendar</span></a> </div></div> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/_commonobjects/images/img-state-map.svg" class="full-card-image" alt="Map of the United States" style="background-color:#ffffff;" /></div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-v2-split-button-panel english-tutorial"><h2>Experience the 2024 Tutorials</h2><p> <button type="button" class="learn-more blue NAEP-tutorial ga-dba-spanish-toggle" lang="es">En Español</button> </p><div class="panel-body"><div class="split-panel"><p>NAEP digital assessments are administered on touch-screen devices that incorporate cutting-edge learning technologies. As part of each assessment, students are presented with a brief, interactive tutorial. The tutorial will teach them about the system and the tools available for use during the assessment.</p><p>To best replicate the experience of students on assessment day, please:</p><ul><li> <strong>Access the tutorials with the Chrome browser*</strong></li><li>Make sure that the browser is updated to the latest version</li><li>Use a device with an 11-inch or larger screen</li></ul> <p> <a class="learn-more blue ga-dba-english-tutorials" href="https://enaep.cotw-ng.naep.ed.gov/totw/2024/English.html" target="_self">View the 2024 Tutorials</a> </p><p> <a href="https://npd.naep.ed.gov/totw/2022/english.html" target="_self">View the 2022 tutorials</a> for civics and U.S. history at grade 8.</p><p> <em>* The tutorial experience is optimized for Chrome; however, the tutorials will load on other browsers</em>. </p></div><div class="split-panel"> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/experience/images/image-tutorials.png" alt="Students with tablet." /> </div></div></div><div class="naep-panel naep-v2-split-button-panel spanish-tutorial hidden" lang="es"><h2>Vea los tutoriales de 2024</h2><p> <button type="button" class="learn-more blue NAEP-tutorial ga-dba-english-toggle" lang="en">In English</button> </p><div class="panel-body"><div class="split-panel"><p>Las evaluaciones digitales de NAEP se administran en dispositivos con pantallas táctiles que incorporan las más modernas tecnologías de aprendizaje. Como parte de cada evaluación, a los estudiantes se les muestra un breve tutorial interactivo. El tutorial les mostrará el sistema y las herramientas disponibles para usar durante la evaluación.</p><p>A fin de recrear de manera óptima la experiencia de los estudiantes el día de la evaluación, por favor:</p><ul><li> <strong>utilice el navegador Chrome* para acceder a los tutoriales;</strong></li><li>asegúrese de que el navegador esté actualizado con la versión más reciente;</li><li>use un dispositivo con una pantalla de 11 pulgadas o más grande.</li></ul><p> <a class="learn-more blue ga-dba-spanish-tutorials" href="https://enaep.cotw-ng.naep.ed.gov/totw/2024/Spanish.html" target="_self">Vea los tutoriales de 2024</a> </p><p> <a href="https://npd.naep.ed.gov/totw/2022/spanish.html" target="_self">Vea los tutoriales de 2022</a> para educación cívica e historia de Estados Unidos para grado 8. </p><p> <em>* La mejor manera de ver el tutorial es a través de Chrome; sin embargo, los tutoriales se cargarán en otros navegadores.</em> </p></div><div class="split-panel"> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/experience/images/image-tutorials.png" alt="Students with tablet." /> </div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-v2-carousel-panel merge-bottom"><h2>Transition to Digitally Based Assessments</h2><div class="panel-body"><p>Since 2001, NAEP has been exploring new testing methods and question types that reflect the growing use of technology in education. NAEP has introduced a variety of new question and task types in the assessments to capture student achievement (what students know and are able to do) in more authentic or direct ways, including scenario-based tasks from the technology and engineering literacy (TEL) assessment, interactive computer tasks, and hybrid hands-on tasks.</p><p>In 2016, NAEP mathematics and reading assessments were piloted on tablets with an attached keyboard, a stylus, and earbuds and used new testing methods and question types. Some questions included multimedia, such as audio and video. Other questions allowed the use of digital tools (such as an onscreen calculator) to form a response, or engaged students in solving problems within realistic scenarios.</p><p>Research in the use of new technologies is ongoing throughout the introduction of digitally based assessments.</p><p>New technologies are improving NAEP’s ability to offer accommodations to increase participation and provide universal access to students of all learning backgrounds, including students with disabilities and English learners. In a digital environment, what used to be an accommodation for paper-based testing becomes a seamless part of universal design, available to all students. That means that things like adjusting font size, having test questions read aloud in English (text-to-speech), use of higher contrast to improve readability, and using a highlighter tool are available to all students during the assessments.</p><div id="countryCarousel" class="carousel slide" data-bs-interval="false"> <button class="carousel-control-prev" type="button" data-bs-target="#countryCarousel" data-bs-slide="prev" aria-label="Previous"> <span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span class="visually-hidden">Previous</span> </button> <button class="carousel-control-next" type="button" data-bs-target="#countryCarousel" data-bs-slide="next" aria-label="Next"> <span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span class="visually-hidden">Next</span> </button> <div class="carousel-indicators"> <button type="button" data-bs-target="#countryCarousel" data-bs-slide-to="0" class="active" aria-current="true" aria-label="Slide 1"></button> <button type="button" data-bs-target="#countryCarousel" data-bs-slide-to="1" aria-label="Slide 2"></button> <button type="button" data-bs-target="#countryCarousel" data-bs-slide-to="2" aria-label="Slide 3"></button> </div><div class="carousel-inner"><div class="carousel-item active"><div class="full-card" tabindex="0"><div class="full-card-text"> <span>NAEP Field Staff transporting tablets for digitally based assessments in Alaska.</span> </div><div class="full-card-image"> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/images/img-slide01.jpg" alt="Field Staff in Alaska transporting tablets for digitally based assessments." /> </div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="full-card" tabindex="0"><div class="full-card-text"> <span>NAEP digitally based assessment in the classroom.</span> </div><div class="full-card-image"> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/images/img-slide02.jpg" alt="Classroom setup of digitally based assessments." /> </div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="full-card" tabindex="0"><div class="full-card-text"> <span>Students participating in NAEP digitally based assessments.</span> </div><div class="full-card-image"> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/images/img-slide03.jpg" alt="Students taking digitally based assessments." /> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-v2-button-panel"><div class="panel-body"><div class="button-group"> <a class="landing-button white ga-dba-transition-1" href="/nationsreportcard/dba/statement.aspx" target="_self"> <span class="indicator">Commissioner's Statement</span></a><a class="landing-button white ga-dba-transition-2" href="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/pdfs/2018_dba_brochure.pdf" target="_self"><span class="indicator pdf">Going Digital: NAEP of the Future</span><span class="screenreader-only">Click to open pdf.</span></a><a class="landing-button white ga-dba-transition-3" href="/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/main2020/pdf/transitional_whitepaper.pdf" target="_self"><span class="indicator pdf">NAEP Digital Transition White Paper</span><span class="screenreader-only">Click to open pdf.</span></a> </div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-text-panel"><h2>Maintaining Trend</h2><div class="panel-body"><p>Maintaining trend lines (the ability to compare performance results from one year to another) is a priority. To do this, NAEP is using a multistep process to move from paper to digital technology to protect trend reporting. The process involves two stages of piloting before administering an operational digitally based NAEP assessment:</p><ul><li>Stage 1. Adapt the paper-based questions for tablet delivery and pilot them in the same year as a main paper-based NAEP administration. Comparing results from paper and digitally based versions of the same assessment content will allow NAEP to establish a link between administration modes and help interpret performance trends across the transition from paper to digital delivery.</li><li>Stage 2. Develop new assessment questions and innovative question types and tasks that make use of digital technologies. This new digital assessment content will be gradually introduced into the assessment after first studying the effects of including these new items and item types.</li></ul></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-v2-split-button-panel"><h2>NAEP Style Guide</h2><div class="panel-body"><div class="split-panel"><p>The NAEP Style Guide provides information, guidance, and specifications for the presentation of student-facing user interface (UI) elements within NAEP’s digitally based assessments. The style guide also helps ensure a consistent experience for students and provides guidelines and specifications that dictate the visual styles and core behaviors of the student-facing user interface (UI) in the eNAEP digital assessment delivery platform.</p><p>The style guide is interactive, open sourced, and available to the public; and includes information and/or demonstrations of many of NAEP’s UI elements in:</p><ul><li>Discrete items</li><li>Scenario-based tasks (SBTs)</li><li>Interactive item components (IICs)</li><li>Universal Design Elements and Tools</li></ul> <a class="learn-more blue mt-3 external ga-dba-style-guide" href="/transfer.asp?location=naepdev.github.io/NAEP-Style-Guide/ux/index.html" target="_self">Learn More</a> </div><div class="split-panel"> <img class="image-landing-image" src="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/images/img-styleguide-page.png" alt="Image of the NAEP Style Guide on a monitor." /> </div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-v2-focal-card-panel"><h2>History of NAEP's Interactive Assessments</h2><p>Learn about NAEP's innovation in assessments.</p><div class="panel-body"><div class="focal-cards"> <a class="focal-card no-marker ga-dba-history-1" href="/nationsreportcard/studies/tbaproject.aspx" target="_self"> <img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/about/images/img-dba.png" alt="Tablets in classroom." /> <span class="title">Early Research</span><span class="text">Read more about the three field investigations in NAEP's Digital-Based Assessment Project that were conducted from 2001 to 2003.</span><span class="links">LEARN MORE</span></a><a class="focal-card no-marker ga-dba-history-2" href="/nationsreportcard/tel" target="_self"><img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/about/images/img-tel.svg" alt="Light bulb icon for technology and society, gears for design, and screen for communications." /><span class="title">Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) Assessment</span><span class="text">In 2014, the computer-based technology TEL assessment challenged students to solve real-life problems, providing a level of authenticity previous assessments could not provide.</span><span class="links">LEARN MORE</span></a><a class="focal-card no-marker ga-dba-history-3" href="/nationsreportcard/writing/lessons" target="_self"><img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/about/images/img-wcba.svg" alt="Lessons from the 2012 Writing Computer-Based Assessments." /><span class="title">Writing Computer-Based Assessments</span><span class="text">In 2012, NCES conducted a study of computer-based writing at grade 4; lessons learned provided insights into administration.</span><span class="links">LEARN MORE</span></a><a class="focal-card no-marker ga-dba-history-4" href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/science_2009/ict_summary.aspx" target="_self"><img src="/nationsreportcard/subject/about/images/img-ict.svg" alt="Images of interactive science tasks: concrete, sun, plant icons." /><span class="title">Science Interactive Computer Tasks (ICTs)</span><span class="text">In 2009, NCES administered ICTs that provided students with more opportunities to demonstrate skills involved in science without the logistical constraints of a natural or lab setting.</span><span class="links external">LEARN MORE</span></a> </div></div></div> <div class="naep-panel naep-accordion-panel v2021"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2><p> Explore frequently asked questions about the digitally based assessments. <a href="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/pdfs/dba_10_4.pdf" target="_self">Download a PDF<span class="screenreader-only">Click to open pdf.</span></a> for printing. </p><div class="panel-body"><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="Why did NAEP move to digitally based assessments?">Why did NAEP move to digitally based assessments?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>Schools are increasingly using technology in the classroom to teach and assess students. NAEP assessments are moving forward to align with school practices.</p><p>In addition, this move will allow NAEP to:</p><ul><li>Use tools available in digital platforms to measure content in new ways;</li><li>Use assistive technology to provide enhanced accommodations for students with special needs;</li><li>Collect new types of data that deepen our understanding of what students know and can do, including how they engage with new technologies to approach problem solving;</li><li>Make the assessments potentially more engaging to the students; and,</li><li>Align with the delivery mode of many other large-scale assessments.</li></ul></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="How did NAEP leverage new technologies to measure and analyze the skills of a new generation of students?>">How did NAEP leverage new technologies to measure and analyze the skills of a new generation of students?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>Across the program, NAEP has introduced a variety of new tasks in the assessments, such as scenario-based tasks and interactive computer tasks. These tasks ask students to engage with real-world problems or situations and to work through a series of questions to demonstrate what they know and are able to do in ways that more accurately reflect what is happening in today’s classrooms.</p><p>NAEP’s digitally based assessment tasks reflect the growing use of technology in education. Some tasks may include multimedia, such as audio and video. Others may allow the use of embedded technological features (such as an equation editor) to form a response.</p><p>These new assessment characteristics are expected to allow NAEP to capture information about students’ problem-solving processes and the strategies they use when responding to assessment questions. For example, while a paper-based assessment would only yield the final responses in the test booklet, digitally based assessments can capture information about students’ use of the tools and whether students change their answer. Thus, digitally based assessments expand what NAEP can learn about the performance of both successful and less successful students.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="What types of universal design features and accommodations are available for digitally based assessments?">What types of universal design features and accommodations are available for digitally based assessments?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>The transition to digitally based assessments will allow NAEP to make various universal design features available to all students, and to use assistive technology to offer accommodations for students with special needs. In a digital environment, what was previously an accommodation in paper-based testing becomes a seamless part of universal design. That means that features like adjusting font size, having test items read aloud in English (text-to-speech), changing the appearance of the testing interface to have a higher contrast, and using a highlighter tool, are available to all students during the test administration.</p><p>In addition to these universal design features, NAEP continues to offer accommodations required in students’ Individualized Education Program (IEP) and 504 plans. Some accommodations are available in the testing system (such as additional time or bilingual forms of the questions in mathematics), while others are provided by the test administrator or the school (such as breaks during testing or sign language interpretation of the test).</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="Does NAEP have experience administering assessments using technology?">Does NAEP have experience administering assessments using technology?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"> <img class="right-asset" alt="Digitally Based Assessments Timeline" src="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/images/dba_timeline_graphic.png" /> <p>NAEP began conducting studies to support the transition to digitally based assessments (DBA) in 2001. Initial research was conducted during 2001 through 2003. These investigations included a math online study, a writing online study, and a problem solving in technology-rich environments study. From 2008 through 2015, NCES incorporated technology in a variety of assessments to have a broader coverage of new frameworks. These assessments include science interactive computer tasks, writing, and technology and engineering literacy (TEL) — all of which require students to interact with digitally based platforms. Additionally, in 2015, NAEP began conducting digitally based pilot studies to gather data to support the transition to DBA. Over the next several years, all NAEP subjects will transition to DBA. The graphic below highlights milestones in NAEP’s exploration of digitally based assessments.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="How are NAEP's digitally based assessments set up and administered in schools?">How are NAEP's digitally based assessments set up and administered in schools?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"> <img class="right-asset" alt="Digitally Based Assessments in the Classroom" src="/nationsreportcard/subject/dba/images/dba_classroom_graphic.png" /> <p>A team of approximately 3 - 4 NAEP field staff set up and administer the assessments. NAEP provides all necessary equipment including student tablets with an attached keyboard, stylus, earbuds, an administrator tablet, and a router that provides a closed wireless network for the devices to communicate. Schools are asked to provide space, desks or tables, and access to electrical outlets. Schools do not need to provide internet access. Two sequential sessions are conducted at each sampled school, with approximately 25 students in each session. The graphic below illustrates the setup and flow of data during the administration.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="How does NAEP address differences in students' level of experiences with digital technology?">How does NAEP address differences in students' level of experiences with digital technology?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>NAEP assessments are designed to test the knowledge and skills that are relevant to the content area being tested and not to test students’ proficiency with technology. NAEP conducted cognitive laboratories and play testing with students during the development of the digitally based platform. To support students’ interaction with the digital assessment, NAEP offers tutorials before the assessment that allow test-takers to become familiar with the system, its tools, and its functionality. These tutorials provide demonstrations of the assessment platform and tools and allows students to have hands-on experience before the assessment begins. The tutorials are available to the public online, allowing participants to become familiar with the digital platform. Additionally, there are help screens built into the system that students can access at any time during the assessment. Finally, NAEP is conducting research to investigate the relationship between student performance and computer access and familiarity.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="Why did some students take the NAEP mathematics and reading assessment in paper-and-pencil form in 2017?">Why did some students take the NAEP mathematics and reading assessment in paper-and-pencil form in 2017?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>Some students in each state and urban district took the paper-and-pencil forms of the assessment in 2017 in order to investigate potential differences between digitally based and paper-and-pencil administrations within the same year.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="What is the timeline for reporting 2017 reading and mathematics scores?">What is the timeline for reporting 2017 reading and mathematics scores?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>The 2017 transition to digitally based assessments in reading and mathematics at grades 4 and 8 will lengthen the period between administration and reporting results that states and districts have previously experienced. NCES plans to extend the typical six-month window for the reporting of 2017 NAEP mathematics and reading results. The extension of the reporting timeline is necessary to allow for the additional analyses required because of the administration of both digitally based and paper-and-pencil assessments. Results are expected to be released in early 2018. Future grade 4 and 8 mathematics and reading results should be released under the traditional six-month reporting timeframe.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="What special analyses are being conducted in 2017 to continue to report on student progress?">What special analyses are being conducted in 2017 to continue to report on student progress?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>NCES designed the 2017 assessment to ensure the move from a paper-based assessment to a digitally based assessment did not compromise our ability to report on student progress. As reported by other large-scale assessments, student performance generally differs when the assessment mode changes. NCES examined this potential mode effect in NAEP with a set of rigorous analyses.</p><p>In 2017, random samples of students took either the paper or digital version of the reading or mathematics assessment in each state and participating urban district. NCES then compared the performance of all students and student groups (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender) nationally, as well as for states and large urban districts. These analyses will determine whether specific states, districts, or student groups in the nation are impacted differently given the NAEP transition to digitally based assessments.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="Have the NAEP frameworks and items changed since the test is being delivered digitally?">Have the NAEP frameworks and items changed since the test is being delivered digitally?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>The impact of the transition to digitally based assessments on the NAEP frameworks varies by subject. For example, the technology and engineering literacy (TEL) framework was originally written for digital administration; both the science and the writing frameworks have been changed to address the transition to digitally based assessment; and, the frameworks for reading, mathematics, and the social sciences have not changed. However, the item types used during NAEP paper-and-pencil administrations were limited to two formats: multiple-choice and constructed response (short or extended). Digitally based administrations allow for the inclusion of other types of selected-response items, such as multiple-choice questions where more than one correct answer can be selected; items where students drag and drop elements to complete a matching or ordering task; questions where students select an area of an image (such as a map or graph) rather than selecting a traditional text option; and, some additional interactive tools that have been deemed appropriate for assessing the content knowledge, skills, and abilities described in the frameworks.</p></div></div><div class="naep-accordion closed"><div class="naep-accordion-head ga-dba-faq" tabindex="0" aria-label="How does NAEP protect the personal information of students and schools?">How does NAEP protect the personal information of students and schools?</div><div class="naep-accordion-text hidden" style="max-height:40px;"><p>Federal law dictates complete privacy for all test-takers and their families. Under the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (Public Law 107-279 III, section 303), the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is charged with ensuring that NAEP assessments do not ask test-takers about their personal or family beliefs or make their personal identity information publicly available.</p></div></div></div></div> </div>   <style> .RadMenu .rmVertical .rmText { float:left; } .TreeViewStyle div { white-space: normal; } </style> <div class='pageupdated'><hr noshade size='1' /><span>Last updated 08 August 2024 (DS)</span></div> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="default.aspx" id="aspnetForm"> <div> <input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" id="__EVENTTARGET" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" id="__EVENTARGUMENT" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUKMTgzNTY5ODI5MmRkUsSzJrX3ddvaXp5DiTCe6Lktd8Y=" /> </div> <script 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