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NAEP Technical DocumentationTreatment of Items in the Scaling of the 2010 U.S. History Scales

Items deleted from the final scaling, U.S. history national assessment, by block and grade: 2010
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), 2010 U.S. History Assessment
8	H7	World role	H085401	Poor fit

Cluster items created for final scaling, U.S. history national assessment, by block and grade: 2010
Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Reason for decision	NAEP IDs of items contributing to cluster
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), 2010 U.S. History Assessment.
8	H10	World role	H0429CL	To follow 2001	H042901, H042902
12	H10	World role	H0429CL	To follow 2001	H042901, H042902
12	H11	Technology	H0642CL	To follow 2001	H064201, H064301

Recoding of polytomous items for scaling, U.S. history national assessment, by block and grade: 2010
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; Culture = 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), 2010 U.S. History Assessment.
4	H4	Technology	H054301	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
8	H3	Technology	H035902	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H3	World role	H036101	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H10	Democracy	H042801	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,0,1,1
12	H4	Democracy	H045901	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,1,2,2
	H4	Culture	H046101	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
	H4	World role	H046301	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,0,1
	H10	Democracy	H042801	To match 2001 scaling	Collapsed categories: 0,1,2,3 becomes 0,0,1,1

Items scaled separately, U.S. history national assessment, by block, scale, and grade: 2010
Grade	Block	Scale	NAEP ID	Type
NOTE: Culture = the gathering of interactions of peoples, cultures, and ideas; Technology = economic and technological changes and their relation to society, ideas, and the environment; Democracy = change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, practices, and controversies; World role = the changing role of America in the world. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 U.S. History Assessment.
8	H4	Culture	H060101	Multiple choice
	H5	Culture	H038601	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H11	Technology	H071701	Multiple choice
12	H5	Technology	H062201	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H6	Democracy	H048801	Multiple choice
	H7	Democracy	H077001	Multiple choice
	H11	World role	H063801	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H11	Culture	H065301	Polytomously-scored constructed response

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