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NAEP Analysis and ScalingInitial ActivitiesClassical Item Analysis → Overall Descriptive Statistics for Items as Defined After Scaling, Grade 12 Reading Combined National and State Assessment, by Block: 2013
NAEP Technical DocumentationOverall descriptive statistics for items as defined after scaling, grade 12 reading combined national and state assessment, by block: 2013
StatisticItem typeBlock R1Block R2Block R3Block R4Block R5Block R6Block R7Block R8Block R9Block R10Block R11Block R12Block R13
† Not applicable.
1 1 The "Weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 – (Percent not responding to last item/100).
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. Item statistics in this table are described on the page Blocks of Items.
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 itemsTotal101010109101110910101111
Multiple choice5676477656676
Dichotomously scored constructed response1022112001001
Polytomously scored constructed response4412422443444
Unweighted sample size6,6006,5006,6006,5006,6006,6006,6006,5006,6006,5006,5006,6006,600
Weighted average item score.72.73.74.68.58.59.65.67.60.60.56.68.56
Weighted average polyserial.67.71.69.70.72.63.67.73.67.66.63.72.63
Weighted alpha reliability.70.72.68.70.72.68.72.75.73.73.69.77.70
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item1.91.95.99.99.96.97.97.87.95.91.95.97.89

Last updated 21 May 2017 (DC)