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NAEP Technical Documentation2016 Summary Comparison Tables
The tables below summarize the percentage differences across item-response categories for the 2016 NAEP assessments. For each subject's instrument, the presented statistics include the difference in item response-category percentages across all the items in a group. In some circumstances, an item may have more than one response option or prompt. The percentages presented include the minimum, maximum, average, and median difference, all of which are expressed based upon the absolute value of the difference at the item-response level.
| Assessment | Grade | Number of response options/prompts | Average number of respondents in Contractor 2 database | Average difference in number of respondents between Contractor 2 database and Contractor 1 scored data | Difference in percentage at the response-category level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Maximum | Average | Median | |||||
| Music | 8 | 109 | 2,114 | 4 | # | 0.35 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| Visual arts | 8 | 44 | 2,170 | 4 | # | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| # Rounds to zero. NOTE: Average difference in number of respondents is the average, across all response options, of the difference in the number of respondents for each response option in Contractor 1's file and the number in Contractor 2's file. In 2016, 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), 2016 Assessment. | ||||||||
| Assessment | Grade | Number of response options/prompts | Average number of respondents in Contractor 2 database | Average difference in number of respondents between Contractor 2 database and Contractor 1 scored data | Difference in percentage at the response-category level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Maximum | Average | Median | |||||
| Core (music) | 8 | 30 | 4,343 | 18 | 0.01 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.11 |
| Music | 8 | 36 | 4,343 | 18 | # | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.11 |
| Core (visual arts) | 8 | 30 | 4,419 | 19 | # | 0.31 | 0.03 | 0.09 |
| Visual arts | 8 | 35 | 4,419 | 19 | 0.02 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.10 |
| # Rounds to zero. NOTE: Average difference in number of respondents is the average, across all response options, of the difference in the number of respondents for each response option in Contractor 1's file and the number in Contractor 2's file. In 2016, 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), 2016 Assessment. | ||||||||
| Assessment | Grade | Number of response options/prompts | Average number of respondents in Contractor 2 database | Average difference in number of respondents between Contractor 2 database and Contractor 1 scored data | Difference in percentage at the response-category level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Maximum | Average | Median | |||||
| Music and visual arts | 8 | 124 | 272 | # | # | # | # | # |
| # Rounds to zero. NOTE: Average difference in number of respondents is the average, across all response options, of the difference in the number of respondents for each response option in Contractor 1's file and the number in Contractor 2's file. In 2016, 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), 2016 Assessment. | ||||||||
Last updated 13 February 2022 (SK)