NAEP Technical DocumentationSchool Base Weights for the 2015 Assessment

The school base weight for a sampled school is equal to the inverse of its overall probability of selection. The overall selection probability of a sampled school differs by

• type of sampled school (original or substitute);
• sampling frame (new school frame or not).

The overall selection probability of an originally selected school in a mathematics, reading, science, or vocabulary sample is equal to its probability of selection from the NAEP public/private school frame.

The overall selection probability of a school from the new school frame in a mathematics, reading, science, or vocabulary sample is the product of two quantities:

• the probability of selection of the school's district into the new-school district sample, and  
• the probability of selection of the school into the new school sample.

Substitute schools are preassigned to original schools and take the place of original schools if they refuse to participate. For weighting purposes, they are treated as if they were the original schools that they replaced; so substitute schools are assigned the school base weight of their corresponding original schools.

Learn more about substitute schools for the 2015 private school national assessment and substitute schools for the 2015 twelfth grade public school national assessment.

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