To restate our mission, NCES is committed to developing quality items that have been thoroughly reviewed and vetted. This presentation covered the item development process for revised frameworks. Due to time constraints, there was much that could not be covered. For example, this presentation did not address: the development of different item types – multiple choice items, constructed response items, hands on tasks, and computer-based tasks. All of these item types would require a different level of thinking and advancement through these stages.