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NAEP Technical DocumentationTreatment of Items in the Scaling of the 2014 U.S. History Subscales

Items deleted from the final scaling, U.S. history national assessment, by block, subscale, and grade: 2014
Grade	Block	Subscale	Item	Reason for decision
NOTE: In 2014, grades 4 and 12 were not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 U.S. History Assessment.
8	H7	World role	H085401	Poor fit

Cluster items created for final scaling, by grade and scale, U.S. history national assessment: 2014
Grade	Block	Subscale	Item	Reason for decision	Items contributing to cluster
8	H10	World Role	H0429CL	multipart item	H042901, H042902
Note: In 2014, grades 4 and 12 were not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 U.S. History Assessment.

Recoding of polytomous items for scaling, U.S. history national assessment, by block, subscale, and grade: 2014
Grade	Block	Subscale	Item	Reason for decision	Disposition
NOTE: In 2014, grades 4 and 12 were not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 U.S. History Assessment.
8	H3	World role	H036101	Poor fit, maintain trend	Collapse categories: 0,1,2 becomes: 0,1,1

Items scaled separately by assessment year, U.S. history national assessment, by block, subscale, and grade: 2014
Grade	Block	Subscale	Item	Item type
NOTE: In 2014, grades 4 and 12 were not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 U.S. History Assessment.
8	H3	Technology	H035902	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H7	World role	H089201	Multiple choice
	H10	Democracy	H042801	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H10	Technology	H043001	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H11	Culture	H070801	Polytomously-scored constructed response
	H11	Technology	H070301	Multiple choice
	H11	Technology	H071501	Multiple choice

Last updated 31 August 2021 (ML)

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