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The following table displays the school- and student-level response and exclusion rates for the grade 8 science bridge assessment. Various weights were used in the calculation of the rates, as indicated in the column headings of the table.
School type | Number of schools in the original sample, rounded | School participation rates(percent) before substitution (weighted by base weight and enrollment) | School participation rates (percent)before substitution (weighted by base weight only) | School participation rates (percent) after substitution (weighted by base weight and enrollment) | School participation rates (percent) after substitution (weighted by base weight only) | Number of students sampled, rounded | Weighted percent of students excluded | Weighted student participation rates (percent) after make-ups | Weighted percent of assessed students accommodated |
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National all1 | 930 | 94.94 | 84.99 | 96.63 | 89.21 | 20,900 | 3.18 | 91.02 | 7.55 |
National public | 690 | 97.97 | 98.30 | 98.29 | 98.45 | 19,300 | 3.51 | 90.71 | 8.13 |
National private | 250 | 67.98 | 70.32 | 81.87 | 79.04 | 1,600 | 0.07 | 94.60 | 1.51 |
Catholic | 60 | 74.32 | 74.42 | 91.12 | 86.68 | 700 | 0.15 | 94.24 | 1.03 |
Non-Catholic private | 180 | 61.81 | 68.54 | 72.88 | 75.73 | 800 | 0.00 | 95.01 | 1.95 |
1 Includes national public and national private schools. NOTE: Numbers of schools are rounded to nearest ten, and numbers of students are rounded to nearest hundred. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Science Bridge Assessment. |