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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 8
NAEP Technical DocumentationU.S. History 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 | |
| 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. |
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| Total | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Democracy1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Culture2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Technology3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| World role4 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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 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. |
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| Total | 77 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Democracy1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Culture2 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Technology3 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| World role4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 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 | |||
| 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. |
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| Total | 165 | 117 | 1 | 33 | 14 | 0 |
| H3 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| H4 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| H5 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| H6 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| H7 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| H8 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| H9 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| H10 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| H11 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| H12 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Last updated 07 January 2016 (GF)