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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 → Economics Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 12
NAEP Technical DocumentationEconomics Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 12
Each assessment includes blocks of new items and blocks of items from previous assessments. For the new items and for the previously administered items in each economics scale, the number of multiple-choice, dichotomously, and polytomously scored constructed-response items are provided at grade 12. The item counts are available for each scale as defined in the final Item Response Theory (IRT) scales.
| Subscale | 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. Economics was assessed only at grade 12 in 2012. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2012 Economics Assessment. |
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| Total | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Market economy | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| National economy | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| International economy | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Subscale | 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 | |
| NOTE: "Concurrent" denotes items that were scaled as common items across assessment years. "Split" denotes items that were scaled as different items in each assessment year. "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling. Economics was assessed only at grade 12 in 2012. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2012 Economics Assessment. |
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| Total | 101 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Market economy | 50 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| National economy | 36 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| International economy | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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. Economics was assessed only at grade 12 in 2012.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2012 Economics Assessment. |
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| Total | 195 | 162 | 3 | 23 | 5 | 2 |
| E1 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| E2 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| E3 | 19 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| E4 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| E5 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| E6 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| E7 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| E8 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| E9 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| E10 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Last updated 07 January 2016 (GF)