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NAEP Technical DocumentationWriting Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 12

The NAEP writing assessment is based on a framework that specifies a single scale. In 2007, the writing assessment included both new writing prompts and prompts that had been administered in previous writing assessments. Writing prompts can be seen as both "items" and "blocks," because there is only one item per block, and each item contains only one writing prompt followed by ruled pages for the student's response.

Because this type of table is supplied for all subject areas on this website, the table format has been maintained for writing to clarify which treatments are possible and which are not. For the new items and for the items administered in a previous writing assessment, the number of polytomously scored constructed-response items is provided. The item counts are available for each scale as defined in the final Item Response Theory (IRT) scales.

Scale composition for new blocks as defined after scaling, grade 12 writing national main assessment, by item type: 2007

Scale	Multiple-choice items		Dichotomously scored constructed-response items		Polytomously scored constructed-response items
	Scaled	Dropped	Scaled	Dropped	Polytomous uncollapsed	Dichotomous collapsed	Polytomous collapsed	Dropped
NOTE: "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Writing Assessment.
Total	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0

Scale composition for previously administered blocks as defined after scaling, grade 12 writing national main assessment, by item type: 2007

Scale	Multiple-choice items			Dichotomously scored constructed-response items			Polytomously scored constructed-response items
	Concurrent	Split	Dropped	Concurrent	Split	Dropped	Concurrent polytomous uncollapsed	Concurrent dichotomous collapsed	Concurrent polytomous collapsed	Split	Dropped
NOTE: "Concurrent" denotes items that were scaled as common items across assessment years. "Split" denotes items that were scaled as different items in each assessment year. "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Writing Assessment.
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	0	0	0	0

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