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NAEP Technical DocumentationOverall descriptive statistics for item blocks as defined after scaling, grade 4 science combined national and state main assessment: 2005

Statistic	Item type	Block S3	Block S4	Block S5	Block S6	Block S7	Block S8	Block S9	Block S10	Block S11	Block S12	Block S13	Block S14	Block S15
Number of scaled items	Total	6	7	14	5	10	16	9	14	14	14	14	13	17
	Multiple choice	0	1	10	0	2	14	4	8	10	8	9	7	12
	Dichotomously scored constructed response	3	5	0	2	5	2	1	2	2	3	1	1	0
	Polytomously scored constructed response	3	1	4	3	3	0	4	4	2	3	4	5	5
Unweighted sample size	†	26,500	25,800	30,200	24,700	29,500	29,000	29,800	29,200	29,500	29,400	29,400	29,600	29,300
Weighted average item score	†	0.46	0.48	0.50	0.55	0.48	0.46	0.50	0.43	0.51	0.50	0.38	0.42	0.51
Weighted average polyserial	†	0.67	0.64	0.50	0.78	0.60	0.50	0.70	0.58	0.52	0.54	0.49	0.55	0.50
Weighted alpha reliability	†	0.57	0.38	0.61	0.60	0.65	0.61	0.71	0.73	0.62	0.67	0.57	0.62	0.70
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item1	†	0.80	0.87	0.92	0.69	0.93	0.94	0.92	0.85	0.93	0.91	0.92	0.89	0.88
† Not applicable. 1 The "Weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 - (Percent not responding to last item /100). NOTE: Item statistics in this table are described on the page Blocks of Items. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Science Assessment.

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