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NAEP Technical DocumentationBlock-level descriptive statistics by public- and nonpublic-school sessions, as defined after scaling, grade 4 science combined national and state main assessment: 2005

Statistic	Type of school1	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	†	6	7	14	5	10	16	9	14	14	14	14	13	17
Unweighted sample size	Public	25,600	24,900	29,200	23,800	28,500	28,000	28,900	28,200	28,500	28,400	28,400	28,600	28,200
	Nonpublic	500	400	500	400	500	500	500	500	500	500	500	500	500
Weighted average item score	Public	0.46	0.47	0.50	0.55	0.48	0.45	0.50	0.42	0.50	0.50	0.38	0.41	0.50
	Nonpublic	0.53	0.49	0.55	0.59	0.54	0.51	0.58	0.51	0.56	0.56	0.43	0.47	0.57
Weighted average polyserial	Public	0.67	0.64	0.50	0.78	0.59	0.49	0.70	0.58	0.52	0.54	0.49	0.55	0.50
	Nonpublic	0.64	0.65	0.47	0.78	0.59	0.53	0.66	0.57	0.49	0.50	0.48	0.55	0.49
Weighted alpha reliability	Public	0.57	0.38	0.62	0.60	0.65	0.60	0.71	0.72	0.62	0.67	0.57	0.62	0.69
	Nonpublic	0.47	0.38	0.54	0.55	0.62	0.64	0.64	0.72	0.55	0.59	0.59	0.60	0.68
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item2	Public	0.79	0.86	0.91	0.68	0.93	0.94	0.92	0.85	0.93	0.91	0.92	0.89	0.87
	Nonpublic	0.93	0.92	0.95	0.82	0.96	0.97	0.94	0.91	0.97	0.95	0.95	0.94	0.93
† 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 Science Assessment.

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