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NAEP Technical DocumentationOverall descriptive statistics for item blocks as defined after scaling, grade 8 reading vocabulary combined national and state assessments, by block: 2011

Statistic	Item type	Block R14	Block R15	Block R16	Block R17	Block R18	Block R19	Embedded blocks
† Not applicable. NOTE: The "weighted average item score" of polytomous items are standardized to have a scale of 0 to 1 so they are comparable to dichotomously scored items. The "weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 (percent not responding to last item /100). Item statistics in this table are described on the page Blocks of Items. The embedded blocks column contains information about all the reading vocabulary items embedded within the 25-minute Reading comprehension blocks. The unweighted sample associated with the embedded items is the average unweighted sample across all embedded reading vocabulary items. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Reading Vocabulary Assessment.
Number of scaled items	Total	6	5	5	5	6	5	24
	Multiple choice	6	5	5	5	6	5	24
	Dichtomously scored constructed response	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
	Polytomously scored constructed response	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Unweighted sample size	†	3,900	5,000	5,000	4,000	4,000	3,900	24,800
Weighted average item score	†	.52	.58	.90	.80	.72	.76	.74
Weighted average polyserial	†	.69	.74	1.24	.93	.77	.86	.64
Weighted alpha reliability	†	.49	.49	.76	.58	.52	.52	†
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item	†	1.00	.99	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	†

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