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NAEP Analysis and ScalingInitial ActivitiesClassical Item Analysis → Overall Descriptive Statistics for Items as Defined After Scaling, Grade 12 Meaning Vocabulary Combined National and State Assessment, by Block: 2013
NAEP Technical DocumentationOverall block-level descriptive statistics for items as defined after scaling, grade 12 meaning vocabulary combined national and state assessment, by block: 2013
StatisticBlock R14Block R15Block R16Block R17Embedded items
† Not applicable.
11 The unweighted sample associated with the embedded items is the average unweighted sample across all embedded meaning vocabulary items.
22 The Weighted proportion of students attempting last item is equal to 1 - (Percent not responding to last item/100).
NOTE: The meaning vocabulary assessment includes multiple-choice items only.The embedded items column contains information about only those meaning vocabulary items embedded within the 25-minute reading comprehension blocks.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Reading Assessment.
Number of scaled items655527
Unweighted sample size13,5003,5003,0003,0006,500
Weighted average item score.67.69.60.65.72
Weighted average polyserial.74.77.76.77.63
Weighted alpha reliability.54.48.49.51
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item21.001.001.001.00

Last updated 21 May 2017 (DC)