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NAEP Technical DocumentationSampling Proportionality Constant Values for Trial Urban District Assessment

The following table lists, for fourth grade, the final proportionality constant b_j values for each jurisdiction j that was included in the Trial Urban District Assessment. Since some districts were sampled with certainty for eighth grade, specific values by jurisdiction are not included for eighth grade. The values for eighth grade varied from 0.0011312230 to 0.0058948475 for those districts that were not sampled with certainty.

Sampling proportionality constant values, fourth grade, by Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) district: 2003

TUDA District	Fourth- grade bj value
Atlanta, GA	0.0092397043
Boston, MA	0.0104146003
Charlotte, NC	0.0061011040
Chicago, IL	0.0021891652
Cleveland, OH	0.0076908991
Houston, TX	0.0043096540
Los Angeles, CA1	0.0012594238
	0.0027526018
New York City, NY	0.0009747255
San Diego, CA	0.0043594151
1 The second parameter value for Los Angeles fourth grade is the probability for sampling fourth-grade charter schools in the Los Angeles TUDA district. The rates for charter school sampling in Houston and San Diego were lower than the rates for the TUDA sampling in those areas. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2003.

 

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