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NAEP Technical DocumentationTreatment of Items in the Scaling of the 2006 National U.S. History Scales

Items deleted from the final scaling, U.S. history national main assessment, by block and grade: 2006

Grade	Block	NAEP ID	Reason for decision
12	H8	H052601	Scoring problems
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 U.S. History Assessment.

Cluster items created for final scaling, U.S. history national main assessment, by block and grade: 2006

Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision	NAEP IDs of items contributing to cluster
8	H10	World role	H0429CL	to match 2001	H042901, H042902
12	H10	World role	H0429CL	to match 2001	H042901, H042902
	H11	Technology	H0642CL	to match 2001	H064201, H064301
NOTE: World role = The Changing Role of America in the World; Technology = Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 U.S. History Assessment.

Recoding of polytomous items for scaling, U.S. history national main assessment, by block and grade: 2006

Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision	Disposition
NOTE: Technology = Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment; World role = The Changing Role of America in the World; Democracy = Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies; Cultures = The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 U.S. History Assessment.
4	H4	Technology	H054301	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H8	Technology	H034401	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H8	World role	H034101	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,1,2,2
8	H3	Technology	H035902	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H3	World role	H036101	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H8	Technology	H034401	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,2
	H10	Democracy	H042801	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,0,1,1
12	H4	Democracy	H045901	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,1,2,2
	H4	Cultures	H046101	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H4	World role	H046301	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,0,1
	H10	Democracy	H042801	to match 2001	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,0,1,1

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