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Statistic | Item type | Block R3 | Block R4 | Block R5 | Block R6 | Block R7 | Block R8 | Block R9 | Block R10 | Block R11 | Block R12 |
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† Not applicable. 1 The "Weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 - (Percent not responding to last item /100). NOTE: Item statistics in this table are described on the page Blocks of Items. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Reading Assessment. |
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Number of scaled items | Total | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Multiple choice | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |
Dichotomously scored constructed response | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Polytomously scored constructed response | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
Unweighted sample size | † | 38,200 | 37,900 | 37,600 | 37,900 | 38,000 | 38,000 | 38,400 | 38,000 | 38,000 | 38,000 |
Weighted average item score | † | 0.67 | 0.72 | 0.47 | 0.65 | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.78 | 0.64 | 0.77 | 0.64 |
Weighted average polyserial | † | 0.68 | 0.77 | 0.60 | 0.71 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.71 | 0.66 | 0.76 | 0.69 |
Weighted alpha reliability | † | 0.74 | 0.79 | 0.72 | 0.76 | 0.70 | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.75 | 0.71 | 0.74 |
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item1 | † | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.77 | 0.72 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.90 | 0.86 |