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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Scale Linking and Transformation to the Reporting Metric → Comparisons of Distributions of Linking Samples for NAEP Assessments → Comparison of Means and Percentiles of 2009 Scores and 2009 Transformed Provisional Scores, Grade 4 Reading Vocabulary Combined National and State Assessments, By Scale: 2011

Original estimates are based on previous assessment data and previous assessment scaling results, transformed to the reporting metric using the transformation identified during the analysis of the previous assessment data. Provisional estimates are based on previous assessment data and current assessment scaling results. These are on the theta metric specified by the scaling program. The original and provisional estimates for the linking sample are used to find the transformation constants necessary to place the current assessment scale scores on the scale used to report previous assessment scale scores. The transformed provisional estimates are based on previous assessment data and current assessment scaling results, transformed to the reporting metric using the transformation constants calculated from the original and provisional estimates for the linking sample. If the transformation constants are correct, the original and transformed provisional means should be the same.

NAEP Technical DocumentationComparison of means and percentiles of 2009 scores and 2009 transformed provisional scores, grade 4 reading vocabulary combined national and state assessments, by scale: 2011
Scale Statistics Original 2009 estimate 2009-transformed provisional estimate Difference between the provisional estimate and the original estimate
# Rounds to zero.
1 Single overall scale.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Reading Vocabulary Assessment.
OneScale1 Mean 218.78 218.78 #
10th percentile 165.84 165.77 -0.07
25th percentile 192.70 192.68 -0.02
50th percentile 220.81 220.62 -0.19
75th percentile 246.71 246.60 -0.11
90th percentile 268.62 268.81 0.19

Last updated 08 January 2016 (GF)