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NAEP Technical DocumentationBlock-level descriptive statistics by public- and nonpublic-school sessions, as defined after scaling, grade 8 mathematics combined national and state main assessment: 2005

Statistic	Type of school1	Block M3	Block M4	Block M5	Block M6	Block M7	Block M8	Block M9	Block M10	Block M11	Block M12
Number of scaled items	†	18	20	18	16	16	18	18	16	19	18
Unweighted sample size	Public	30,500	30,400	30,500	30,600	30,800	30,600	30,300	30,500	30,300	30,500
	Nonpublic	1,400	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,400	1,400	1,400	1,300	1,400	1,400
Weighted average item score	Public	0.53	0.60	0.58	0.48	0.49	0.52	0.48	0.50	0.54	0.55
	Nonpublic	0.61	0.67	0.65	0.55	0.56	0.60	0.56	0.58	0.60	0.62
Weighted average polyserial	Public	0.60	0.62	0.61	0.63	0.58	0.60	0.59	0.61	0.57	0.55
	Nonpublic	0.56	0.55	0.60	0.59	0.57	0.58	0.58	0.59	0.56	0.52
Weighted alpha reliability	Public	0.76	0.78	0.80	0.79	0.76	0.78	0.79	0.77	0.76	0.75
	Nonpublic	0.71	0.72	0.77	0.74	0.74	0.77	0.78	0.74	0.73	0.70
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item2	Public	0.93	0.70	0.89	0.93	0.75	0.86	0.78	0.98	0.94	0.91
	Nonpublic	0.96	0.71	0.95	0.97	0.78	0.89	0.83	0.99	0.97	0.95
† Not applicable. 1 Nonpublic-school sample includes only Catholic and private schools. 2 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 Mathematics Assessment.

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