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NAEP Technical Documentation Summary Item Response Rates, Reading Combined National and State Assessment, by Item Type and Grade: 2017

Summary item response rates, reading combined national and state assessment, by item type and grade: 2017
Grade	Statistic	Multiple-choice items	Dichotomous constructed-response items	Polytomous constructed-response items
4	Number of items	65	5	27
	Average percent missing ¹	6.03	7.42	10.01
	Minimum	2.66	4.62	3.88
	Maximum	17.01	10.14	20.93
	Average percent off-task ²	†	0.44	0.76
	Minimum	†	0.17	0.11
	Maximum	†	0.76	2.03
	Average weighted percent correct	59.75	45.17	34.46
8	Number of items	77	8	45
	Average percent missing ¹	2.48	3.68	5.62
	Minimum	1.02	2.21	1.96
	Maximum	9.92	6.77	20.02
	Average percent off-task ²	†	0.32	0.55
	Minimum	†	0.14	0.14
	Maximum	†	0.46	1.55
	Average weighted percent correct	73.16	66.06	51.67
† Not applicable. ¹ Missing responses include the categories " omitted" and " not-reached. ² An " off-task" response (constructed-response items only) is a response that is unrelated to the question. NOTE: In 2017, grade 12 was not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2017 Reading Assessment.

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