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NAEP Technical DocumentationTarget Sample Sizes for State Assessment Nonparticipating Jurisdictions

There were a number of states that did not sign up to participate for 2002 State NAEP. These states require special school samples for the purposes of the national main assessment. The necessary school sample sizes in these cases are determined by the percentage of national enrollment within the state. The following table presents final 2002 national main assessment targets for all states that did not sign up to participate in the 2002 state assessment. The student targets were equal to state percentages multiplied by the overall national student target of 32,000. The expected school target sample sizes were generated from these student targets using the process defined in computation of measures of size for the state assessments.

Target student sample sizes and expected school sample sizes for jurisdictions not assessed in the state assessment, by grade and jurisdiction, national main assessment: 2002

State assessment nonparticipating jurisdiction	Fourth grade		Eighth grade
	Student target	Expected school sample size	Student target	Expected school sample size
Alaska	131	4	159	5
Bureau of Indian Affairs	38	2	38	2
Colorado	693	13	798	15
Iowa	†	†	540	10
New Hampshire	211	4	242	4
New Jersey	1,238	22	1,338	23
South Dakota	119	4	152	5
† Not applicable; Iowa participated in the 2002 state assessment at the fourth-grade level. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2002.

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