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NAEP Technical DocumentationTreatment of Items in the Scaling of the 2007 Reading Scales

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

Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision
† Not applicable. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Reading Assessment.
4	†	†	†	No items were deleted
8	†	†	†	No items were deleted

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

Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision	Disposition
1 This item was split before collapsing. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Reading Assessment.
4	R6	Information	R017309	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R7	Information	R035201	Poor fit in 2006 pre-calibration	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1
	R9	Literary	R053010	To match 2005 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R11	Literary	R020401	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R12	Information	R023601	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
8	R3	Literary	R017102	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R3	Literary	R017110	To match 1998 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R5	Literary	R012607	To match 2002 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 1, 2, 2
	R8	Information	R053408	To match 2005 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R10	Task	R013403	To match 1998 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 0, 1, 2
	R10	Task	R013406	To match 1998 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 0, 1, 1
	R11	Task	R013004	To match 1998 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2, 3 becomes 0, 0, 1, 2
	R12	Literary	R053202	To match 2005 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 1, 1
	R13	Information	R016201	Poor fit for 2007 students1	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1
	R13	Information	R016213	To match 2002 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1
	R14	Information	R026501	To match 2003 scaling	Collapse 0, 1, 2 becomes 0, 0, 1

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