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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Estimation of NAEP Score Scales → NAEP Scales → Scale Composition by Item Type for New and Trend Blocks → Geography Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 8
NAEP Technical DocumentationGeography Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 8
| 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), 2010 Geography Assessment. |
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| Total | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Space and place | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Environment and society | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spatial dynamics and connections | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scale | Multiple-choice items | Dichotomously scored constructed-response items | Polytomously scored constructed-response items | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concurrent | Split | Dropped | Concurrent | Split | Dropped | Polytomous (uncollapsed) | Dichotomous collapsed | Polytomous collapsed | Split | Dropped | |
1 Contains one non-trend multiple-choice item.
2 One item is collapsed and split in scaling. NOTE: “Concurrent” denotes items that were scaled as the same items across assessment years.“Split” denotes items that were scaled as different items across assessment years. "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), 2010 Geography Assessment. |
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| Total | 44 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Space and place | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Environment and society1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Spatial dynamics and connections | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Block | Total number of items | Number of multiple-choice items | Number of constructed-response items | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-category | 3-category | 4-category | 5-category | |||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 Geography Assessment. | ||||||
| Total | 124 | 86 | 1 | 26 | 11 | 0 |
| G3 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| G4 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| G5 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| G6 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| G7 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| G8 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| G9 | 26 | 16 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
Last updated 07 January 2016 (GF)