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NAEP Analysis and ScalingInitial ActivitiesClassical Item Analysis → Overall Block-level Descriptive Statistics for Items as Defined After Scaling, Grade 4 Reading Combined National and State Assessment, by Block: 2013
NAEP Technical DocumentationOverall block-level descriptive statistics for items as defined after scaling, grade 4 reading combined national and state assessment, by block: 2013
StatisticItem typeBlock R1Block R2Block R3Block R4Block R5Block R6Block R7Block R8Block R9Block R10
† Not applicable.
11 The "Weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 – (Percent not responding to last item/100).
22 Blocks R1, R2, R4, R6, R7, and R9 have larger sample sizes due to their pairing with integrated pilot blocks.
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 itemsTotal11811101010101098
Multiple choice8577777666
Dichotomously scored constructed response1100100111
Polytomously scored constructed response2243233321
Unweighted sample size2 36,20036,20033,60036,20033,80035,40036,30033,80035,40033,700
Weighted average item score.68.65.63.58.50.52.57.52.60.56
Weighted average polyserial.66.68.63.69.63.66.63.63.70.64
Weighted alpha reliability.75.68.71.75.72.74.71.70.73.59
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item1.88.82.80.87.77.80.79.76.86.91
 

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