NAEP Technical DocumentationSummary of Quality Control Error Analysis for NAEP 2011 Data Entry

The following summary tables give the upper 99.8 percent confidence limit for the error rates for each of the instruments as well as the sampling information. The 99.8 percent confidence limit and the selection rates indicated were chosen to make these results comparable to those of administrations since 1983, all of which used the same parameters. There were no teacher questionnaires administered at grade 12.

Summary of quality control error analysis for data entry of student booklets, mathematics assessment, by grade: 2011
Grade	Total samples	Selection rate	Number of different booklets	Number of booklets sampled	Number of fields sampled	Number of errors	Observed error rate	Upper 99.8% confidence limit¹
¹ 99.8% certainty that the true error rate is less than or equal to 0.0155 for the observed error rate of 0.0018. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Mathematics Assessment.
4	214,205	1/2079	50	103	7,416	1	0.0001	0.0011
8	180,396	1/1735	50	104	8,602	2	0.0002	0.0012

Summary of quality control error analysis for data entry of student booklets, reading assessment, by grade: 2011
Grade	Total samples	Selection rate	Number of different booklets	Number of booklets sampled	Number of fields sampled	Number of errors	Observed error rate	Upper 99.8% confidence limit¹
¹ 99.8% certainty that the true error rate is less than or equal to 0.0155 for the observed error rate of 0.0018. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Reading Assessment.
4	222,232	1/1852	60	120	6,648	3	0.0005	0.0018
8	174,654	1/960	91	182	11,898	2	0.0002	0.0009

Summary of quality control error analysis for data entry of student booklets, science assessment: 2011
Grade	Total samples	Selection rate	Number of different booklets	Number of booklets sampled	Number of fields sampled	Number of errors	Observed error rate	Upper 99.8% confidence limit¹
¹ 99.8% certainty that the true error rate is less than or equal to 0.0155 for the observed error rate of 0.0018. NOTE: Only students at grade 8 were assessed in 2011. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Science Assessment.
8	124,174	1/1634	36	76	5,742	1	0.0002	0.0015

Summary of quality control error analysis for data entry of school booklets, combined mathematics, reading, and science assessments, by grade: 2011
Grade	Total samples	Selection rate	Number of different booklets	Number of booklets sampled	Number of fields sampled	Number of errors	Observed error rate	Upper 99.8% confidence limit1¹
¹ 99.8% certainty that the true error rate is less than or equal to 0.0155 for the observed error rate of 0.0018. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Mathematics, Reading, and Science Assessments.
4	8,665	1/ 867	2	10	925	0	0	0.0067
8	5,526	1/276	4	20	2,485	0	0	0.0025
12	1,217	1/243	1	5	360	0	0	0.0171

Summary of quality control error analysis for data entry of teacher booklets, combined mathematics, reading, and science assessments, by grade: 2011
Grade	Total samples	Selection rate	Number of different booklets	Number of booklets sampled	Number of fields sampled	Number of errors	Observed error rate	Upper 99.8% confidence limit¹
¹ 99.8% certainty that the true error rate is less than or equal to 0.0155 for the observed error rate of 0.0018. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Mathematics, Reading, and Science Assessments.
4	42,393	1/8479	1	5	940	0	0	0.0066
8	73,552	1/5658	4	13	1,495	0	0	0.0042

Summary of quality control error analysis for data entry of students with disabilities (SD) and English language learners (ELL) questionnaires, combined mathematics, reading, and science assessments: 2011
Instrument	Total samples	Selection rate	Number of different booklets	Number of records sampled	Number of fields sampled	Number of errors	Observed error rate	Upper 99.8% confidence limit¹
¹ 99.8% certainty that the true error rate is less than or equal to 0.0155 for the observed error rate of 0.0018. NOTE: The 2011 SD and ELL questionnaires are in a worksheet format. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2011 Mathematics, Reading, and Science Assessments.
SD questionnaires	151,450	1/4589	2	33	1,169	0	0	0.0053
ELL questionnaires	85,097	1/3868	2	22	324	0	0	0.0190

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