NAEP Technical DocumentationComposition of New and Previously Administered Blocks in the 2013 Meaning Vocabulary Assessment at Grade 4

Each meaning vocabulary assessment includes blocks of new items and blocks of items from previous assessments. For the new items and the previously administered items in the meaning vocabulary scale, the number of multiple-choice items are provided at grade 4. The item counts are available as defined in the final Item Response Theory (IRT) scale.

Composition of new blocks as defined after scaling, grade 4 meaning vocabulary combined national and state assessment, by item type: 2013
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: Single overall scale. The meaning vocabulary assessment includes multiple-choice items only. "Dropped: denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. The item counts include meaning vocabulary items from the half-blocks and the 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.
11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Composition of previously administered blocks as defined after scaling, grade 4 meaning vocabulary combined national and state assessment. by item type: 2013
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: Single overall scale. The meaning vocabulary assessment includes multiple-choice items only. "Concurrent" denotes 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. The item counts include meaning vocabulary items from the half-blocks and the 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.
29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Block composition, grade 4 meaning vocabulary combined national and state assessment, by item type and block: 2013
Block	Number of multiple-choice items	Number of polytomously-scored constructed-response items
Block	Number of multiple-choice items	2-category	3-category	4-category	5-category
NOTE: The meaning vocabulary assessment includes multiple-choice items only. 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	40	0	0	0	0
R14	5	0	0	0	0
R15	5	0	0	0	0
R16	5	0	0	0	0
R17	5	0	0	0	0
Embedded	20	0	0	0	0

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