NAEP Analysis and Scaling - Block-Level Descriptive Statistics as Defined After Scaling, Grade 8 Civics National Assessment, by Public and Nonpublic School Sessions: 2010

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NAEP Technical DocumentationBlock-level descriptive statistics as defined after scaling, grade 8 civics national assessment, by public and nonpublic school sessions: 2010
Statistic	Type of school¹	Block C3	Block C4	Block C5	Block C6	Block C7	Block C8	Block C9	Block C10
† Not applicable. ¹Nonpublic school sample includes only private and Catholic schools. NOTE: The "weighted average item score" of polytomous items are standardized to have a scale of 0 to 1 so they are comparable to dichotomously scored items. The "weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 - (Percent not responding to last item /100). 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), 2010 Civics Assessment.
Number of scaled items	†	20	17	18	19	18	18	19	19
Unweighted sample size	Public	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,100
Unweighted sample size	Nonpublic	210	210	210	220	210	230	210	230
Weighted average item score	Public	.55	.50	.45	.51	.46	.56	.51	.54
Weighted average item score	Nonpublic	.63	.55	.53	.62	.54	.65	.58	.65
Weighted average polyserial	Public	.50	.50	.53	.54	.49	.52	.53	.58
Weighted average polyserial	Nonpublic	.46	.46	.50	.51	.50	.47	.56	.56
Weighted alpha reliability	Public	.71	.70	.74	.77	.69	.71	.75	.81
Weighted alpha reliability	Nonpublic	.61	.62	.69	.72	.70	.62	.76	.74
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item	Public	.95	.91	.93	.93	.90	.95	.98	.93
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item	Nonpublic	.96	.95	.98	.95	.94	.96	.99	.97

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