NAEP Technical DocumentationTreatment of Items in the Scaling of the 2017 Reading Scales

Items deleted from the final scaling, reading combined national and state assessment, by grade, block, and subscale: 2017

Grade	Block	Item	Subscale	Reason for decision
4	R2	R057803	Reading for literary experience	Poor fit
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.

Recoding of polytomous items for scaling, reading combined national and state assessment, by grade, block, and subscale: 2017

Grade	Block	Item	Subscale	Reason for decision	Disposition
4	R7	R058805	Reading for information	Poor fit	Collapse categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,0,1
8	R7	R058805	Reading for information	Poor fit	Collapse categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,0,1
	R8	R079703	Reading for information	Poor fit	Collapse categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,0,1
	R11	R0Q4104	Reading for information	Poor fit	Collapse categories: 0,1,2 becomes 0,1,1
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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