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NAEP Technical DocumentationIRT parameters, age 13 reading long-term trend assessment, by item and block: 2008
Block Item NAEP ID aj bj cj dj1 dj2 dj3 dj4
† Not applicable; c parameters are not estimated for generalized partial credit models.
NOTE: For item j, aj represents the discriminatory power of the item, bj represents a location parameter related to item difficulty, cj represents the guessing parameter, and dji is the category threshold parameter for category i. The c parameter value is exactly zero for items scaled with the two-parameter logistic model. For item j, dji may not sum to zero because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2008 Reading Long-Term Trend Assessment.
RA 1 N023701 0.78 -2.62 0.27
2 N023702 0.83 -1.39 0.20
3 N021201 1.43 -1.13 0.32
4 N021202 0.94 0.39 0.27
5 N021203 0.37 -0.39 3.84 -2.11 -1.73
6 N021301 0.97 -0.74 0.17
7 N021302 1.54 0.11 0.15
8 N021303 1.17 0.00 0.20
9 N023101 1.03 -0.06 0.31
10 N023102 1.15 0.06 0.22
RB 1 N021401 0.68 -0.60 0.41
2 N021402 0.48 -0.64 0.19
3 N021403 1.47 0.02 0.30
4 N021501 1.31 -0.97 0.36
5 N021502 1.08 -0.62 0.27
6 N021503 0.83 -1.54 0.23
7 N023801 1.72 -0.89 0.38
8 N023802 0.55 -0.43 0.14 1.65 -1.79
9 N023901 1.15 0.36 0.23
RC 1 N024001 1.37 0.40 0.29
2 N024002 1.38 -0.47 0.28
3 N021801 0.88 -1.12 0.27
4 N021802 0.75 0.58 0.34
5 N021803 0.29 -0.42 3.01 -2.42 -0.59
6 N022001 1.41 -1.06 0.31
7 N022002 1.16 -1.27 0.26
8 N022003 1.10 -0.75 0.33
9 N022004 1.83 -1.05 0.26
10 N023601 1.10 -1.62 0.29
11 N023602 0.71 -2.33 0.24
RD 1 N024101 0.65 -0.52 0.29
2 N024102 1.55 0.64 0.20
3 N024103 0.98 0.38 0.27
4 N024104 0.40 -0.17 0.25
5 N022101 1.54 -1.17 0.37
6 N022102 1.38 0.20 0.17
7 N022103 0.57 0.57 1.99 0.17 -2.16
8 N024201 1.05 -1.06 0.33
9 N024202 0.91 -0.47 0.26
10 N024203 1.05 -0.60 0.23
11 N024204 0.49 -1.30 0.22
RE 1 N024301 1.21 0.76 0.21
2 N024302 0.63 -0.07 0.26
3 N022401 2.19 -0.25 0.48
4 N022402 1.75 -0.22 0.19
5 N022403 2.32 -0.04 0.29
6 N022404 3.16 0.03 0.19
7 N022405 0.68 -0.37 -0.54 1.82 -1.28
8 N024401 0.78 -1.41 0.24
9 N024402 0.98 -0.36 0.13
10 N024403 1.27 -0.51 0.25
RF 1 N024501 1.02 -0.65 0.39
2 N024502 0.68 -0.42 0.18
3 N024503 1.16 0.42 0.27
5 N024601 0.84 -0.69 0.26
6 N024602 1.19 -1.38 0.30
7 N024603 1.21 -0.97 0.31
8 N024604 1.31 -1.27 0.30
9 N024605 0.87 -0.83 0.27
10 N024701 1.11 -0.81 0.23
11 N024801 0.85 -1.84 0.24
12 N024802 1.07 -1.18 0.22
13 N024803 0.67 -0.29 0.19
14 N022901 0.55 -2.86 0.26
RG 1 N024901 0.64 -0.28 0.18
2 N024902 0.81 -1.71 0.39
3 N024903 0.87 -1.83 0.29
4 N025001 0.74 -0.57 0.33
5 N025002 1.11 -1.11 0.26
6 N025003 0.80 -0.55 0.19
7 N025101 0.59 0.50 0.32
8 N022301 1.82 -0.88 0.26
9 N025201 1.20 -0.35 0.26
10 N025202 0.79 -0.02 0.33
11 N025301 0.87 0.20 0.27
RH 1 N026101 1.05 -0.36 0.30
2 N026102 0.79 -0.29 0.32
3 N027301 1.11 -0.10 0.38
4 N027302 0.37 0.46 3.31 1.26 0.79 -5.36
5 N027401 1.15 -0.49 0.26
6 N027402 1.42 0.07 0.16
7 N027403 0.48 -0.17 0.23
8 N027404 1.42 -0.45 0.25
9 N027405 0.99 -1.31 0.34
10 N025901 0.94 -1.31 0.26
RI 1 N028701 1.15 -1.34 0.26
2 N028702 1.11 -1.17 0.27
3 N028703 0.64 -1.21 0.21
4 N028704 1.60 -1.82 0.30
5 N028801 0.69 -1.57 0.25
6 N028802 1.07 -0.70 0.28
7 N029001 0.81 0.18 0.20
8 N029002 0.66 0.22 2.20 -0.63 -1.56
9 N028901 0.72 -0.95 0.24
10 N028902 0.89 0.22 0.28
RJ 1 N027701 0.94 -1.86 0.20
2 N027702 0.95 -0.56 0.23
3 N027801 0.58 -1.78 0.24
4 N027802 1.61 -0.89 0.23
5 N027803 1.02 -0.31 0.25
6 N027804 0.75 -0.23 0.14
8 N027901 0.53 -0.28 0.37
9 N027902 1.11 -0.93 0.28
10 N027903 0.91 -0.29 0.31
11 N027904 0.88 -0.39 0.24

Last updated 09 July 2009 (JL)