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NAEP Technical DocumentationSetting Measures of Size for Each Jurisdiction in the 2003 State Assessment

There were a number of jurisdictions for which the target student sample size of 6,510 could not be achieved using the sampling algorithm because of small student populations. For these jurisdictions, one can view the measure of size for each school as equal to the expected number of hits in the school (school enrollment divided by 68), and the upper bound u_j for the burden is unlimited in the sense that all eligible students are selected.

In addition, the upper bound for burden u_j was set higher for a number of jurisdictions in an attempt to achieve higher student targets (closer to 6,510) as follows:

• Alaska: u_j equals 8 for eighth grade,

• Delaware: u_j equals 5 for eighth grade, and

• Wyoming: u_j equals 4 for eighth grade.

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