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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 → U.S. History Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 4

NAEP Technical DocumentationU.S. History Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 4

Subscale composition for new blocks as defined after scaling, grade 4 U.S. history assessment, by item type: 2010
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
1 Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies.
2 The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas.
3 Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment.
4 The Changing Role of America in the World.
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 U.S. History Assessment.
Total 21 0 0 0 11 0 0 0
Democracy1 7 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Culture2 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
Technology3 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
World role4 7 0 0 0 2 0 0 0

Subscale composition for previously administered blocks as defined after scaling, grade 4 U.S. history assessment, by item type: 2010
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 Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies.
2 The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas.
3 Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment.
4 The Changing Role of America in the World.
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 U.S. History Assessment.
Total 42 0 0 0 0 0 20 1 0 0 0
Democracy1 10 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Culture2 14 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0
Technology3 10 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0
World role4 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

Block composition by item type and block, grade 4 U.S. history assessment: 2010
Block Total number of items Number of multiple-choice items Number of constructed-response items
2-category 3-category 4-category 5-category
NOTE: For a small number of constructed-response items, adjacent categories were combined.
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.
Total 95 63 0 23 9 0
H3 16 11 0 2 3 0
H4 16 11 0 5 0 0
H5 15 10 0 5 0 0
H6 16 10 0 5 1 0
H7 16 11 0 2 3 0
H8 16 10 0 4 2 0

Last updated 07 January 2016 (GF)