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NAEP Technical DocumentationTreatment of items in the Scaling of the 2007 Mathematics Scales

Items deleted from the final scaling, mathematics combined national and state main assessment, by block and grade: 2007

Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Mathematics Assessment.
8	M8	Data analysis, statistics, and probability	M052801	To match 2005 scaling
	M8	Number sense, properties, and operations	M073602	To match 2005 scaling

Recoding of polytomous items for scaling, mathematics combined national and state main assessment, by block and grade: 2007

Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision	Disposition
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Mathematics Assessment.
4	M5	Number sense, properties, and operations	M085401	To match 2005 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 becomes 0, 1, 2, 3, 3
	M5	Geometry and spatial sense	M085901	To match 2002 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1
	M6	Data analysis, statistics, and probability	M136901	To match 2004 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 1, 1, 2
	M7	Number sense, properties, and operations	M139801	To match 2004 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 1, 1, 2
	M9	Number sense, properties, and operations	M0402CL	To match 2002 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1
	M10	Algebra and functions	M138401	To match 2004 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0,1 , 1, 2
8	M4	Algebra and functions	M152602	To match 2006 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 becomes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3
	M5	Geometry and spatial sense	M085701	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1
	M5	Data analysis, statistics, and probability	M053101	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 becomes 0, 1, 2, 2, 3
	M6	Number sense, properties, and operations	M141301	To match 2004 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 1, 1, 2
	M7	Geometry and spatial sense	M145101	To match 2004 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 1, 1, 1
	M7	Algebra and functions	M144901	To match 2004 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 1, 1, 2
	M9	Data analysis, statistics, and probability	M073501	To match 2002 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	M9	Data analysis, statistics, and probability	M093801	To match 2002 precalibration scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 becomes 0, 1, 2, 3, 3

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