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NAEP Technical DocumentationU.S. History Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 12

Subscale composition for new blocks as defined after scaling, grade 12 U.S. history assessment, by item type: 2010
Scale Multiple-choice items Dichotomously scored constructed-response items Polytomously scored constructed-response items
Scaled Dropped Scaled Dropped Polytomous (uncollapsed) Dichotomous collapsed Polytomous collapsed Dropped
1 Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies.
2 The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas.
3 Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment.
4 The Changing Role of America in the World.
NOTE: "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 U.S. History Assessment.
Total 26 0 0 0 10 0 0 0
Democracy1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Culture2 5 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
Technology3 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
World role4 8 0 0 0 2 0 0 0

Subscale composition for previously administered blocks as defined after scaling, grade 12 U.S. history assessment, by item type: 2010
Scale Multiple-choice items Dichotomously scored constructed-response items Polytomously scored constructed-response items
Concurrent Split Dropped Concurrent Split Dropped Polytomous (uncollapsed) Dichotomous collapsed Polytomous collapsed Split Dropped
1 Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies.
2 The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas.
3 Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment.
4 The Changing Role of America in the World.
NOTE: “Concurrent” denotes items that were scaled as the same items across assessment years.“Split” denotes items that were scaled as different items across assessment years. "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 U.S. History Assessment.
Total 79 2 0 1 0 0 32 3 1 3 0
Democracy1 19 2 0 1 0 0 5 1 1 0 0
Culture2 15 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 1 0
Technology3 20 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 0
World role4 25 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 0 1 0

Block composition by item type and block, grade 12 U.S. history assessment: 2010
Block Total number of items Number of multiple-choice items Number of constructed-response items
2-category 3-category 4-category 5-category
NOTE: For a small number of constructed-response items, adjacent categories were combined.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 U.S. History Assessment.
Total 157 107 1 37 12 0
H3 18 13 0 4 1 0
H4 18 13 1 3 1 0
H5 18 13 0 4 1 0
H6 17 12 0 3 2 0
H7 18 13 0 5 0 0
H8 18 13 0 4 1 0
H9 18 13 0 3 2 0
H10 16 11 0 3 2 0
H11 16 6 0 8 2 0

Last updated 07 January 2016 (GF)