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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 → Reading Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 8
NAEP Technical DocumentationReading Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 8
Each reading 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 reading scale, the number of multiple-choice, dichotomously scored constructed-response, and polytomously scored constructed-response items are provided at grade 8. 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. Some items were administered previously under different contexts. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Reading Assessment. | ||||||||
| Total | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Literary | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 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" and "uncollapsed" denote items that were scaled as the same 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. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Reading Assessment. | |||||||||||
| Total | 60 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Literary | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Information | 31 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Block | Total number of items | Number of multiple-choice items | Number of polytomously-scored constructed-response items | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-category | 3-category | 4-category | |||
| NOTE: For a small number of constructed-response items, adjacent categories were combined. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Reading Assessment. | |||||
| Total | 131 | 79 | 11 | 29 | 12 |
| R1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| R2 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| R3 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| R4 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| R5 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R6 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| R7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| R9 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| R10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| R11 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| R12 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| R13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Last updated 21 May 2017 (DC)