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NAEP Technical DocumentationIRT parameters, age 17 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 Assessment.
RA 1 N023701 1.04 -2.73 0.29
2 N023702 0.87 -1.79 0.27
3 N021201 1.50 -1.61 0.37
4 N021202 0.82 -0.45 0.23
5 N021203 0.25 -0.38 2.82 0.31 -1.38 -1.75
6 N023101 0.77 -1.07 0.26
7 N023102 1.00 -0.82 0.23
8 N025401 1.17 -0.67 0.39
9 N025402 0.97 -0.16 0.26
10 N025403 0.79 0.50 0.42
RB 1 N021401 0.73 -1.21 0.37
2 N021402 0.59 -1.17 0.21
3 N021403 1.48 -0.77 0.32
4 N023801 1.45 -1.63 0.24
5 N023802 0.52 -1.08 -0.01 1.46 -1.45
6 N025501 0.65 0.20 0.29
7 N025502 1.23 0.42 0.22
8 N025503 0.69 -0.36 0.17
9 N025504 0.65 -0.15 0.19
10 N025505 1.32 0.61 0.34
RC 1 N024001 1.02 -0.43 0.27
2 N024002 1.60 -0.90 0.40
3 N021801 0.79 -1.65 0.22
4 N021802 0.70 -0.27 0.26
5 N021803 0.24 -0.40 1.52 -1.62 0.11
6 N023901 0.97 -0.30 0.24
7 N022001 1.17 -1.63 0.27
8 N022002 1.39 -1.57 0.21
9 N022003 1.13 -1.40 0.24
10 N022004 1.90 -1.57 0.26
RD 1 N025601 1.42 -2.45 0.22
2 N025602 1.21 -1.75 0.25
3 N025603 1.10 -1.68 0.28
4 N022101 1.57 -1.81 0.30
5 N022102 1.19 -0.34 0.22
6 N022103 0.56 -0.03 1.80 0.27 -2.08
7 N024101 0.76 -1.06 0.32
8 N024102 1.55 0.11 0.22
9 N024103 1.45 -0.38 0.30
10 N024104 0.58 -0.85 0.25
RE 1 N024301 1.13 0.37 0.26
2 N024302 0.49 -0.67 0.25
3 N022401 1.82 -0.89 0.38
4 N022402 1.97 -0.68 0.19
5 N022403 1.94 -0.59 0.22
6 N022404 2.56 -0.54 0.17
7 N022405 0.70 -0.64 -1.00 2.36 -1.36
8 N024801 0.74 -2.94 0.23
9 N024802 1.06 -2.29 0.26
10 N024803 0.61 -1.36 0.30
RF 1 N024501 1.00 -1.29 0.35
2 N024502 0.66 -1.02 0.23
3 N024503 1.10 -0.35 0.22
4 N024504 1.41 1.28 0.31
5 N025701 0.85 -0.69 0.18
6 N025702 0.90 -0.48 0.28
7 N025703 1.04 -0.28 0.21
8 N025704 0.62 0.32 0.90 0.19 -1.09
9 N024701 0.88 -1.24 0.30
RG 1 N024901 0.56 -0.89 0.16
2 N024902 0.87 -2.25 0.27
3 N024903 1.03 -2.12 0.27
4 N025001 0.82 -1.46 0.30
5 N025002 1.20 -1.65 0.32
6 N025003 0.82 -1.29 0.24
7 N025101 0.55 -0.73 0.24
8 N025801 0.72 -0.86 0.29
9 N025802 0.70 -0.95 0.31
10 N025803 0.61 0.13 0.20
11 N025804 2.13 0.22 0.24
RH 1 N028001 0.75 -0.63 0.24
2 N028002 1.22 -1.20 0.37
3 N028003 1.16 -1.59 0.26
4 N027301 1.23 -0.64 0.40
5 N027302 0.43 0.18 2.81 0.92 0.45 -4.18
6 N026101 1.00 -0.75 0.21
7 N026102 0.59 -0.12 0.30
8 N027801 0.72 -1.24 0.24
9 N027802 1.88 -0.69 0.34
10 N027803 1.30 -0.62 0.25
11 N027804 0.86 -0.13 0.23
RI 1 N029101 0.93 -0.31 0.32
2 N029102 1.02 0.28 0.26
3 N029103 0.94 -1.50 0.30
4 N029104 0.74 0.36 0.17
5 N029201 0.66 0.67 0.28
6 N029202 0.86 0.37 0.29
7 N029203 0.95 -1.35 0.29
8 N029001 0.86 -0.34 0.18
9 N029002 0.54 0.16 1.63 -0.29 -1.34
10 N028901 0.93 -1.03 0.40
11 N028902 0.82 -0.46 0.29
RJ 1 N028201 0.83 -0.70 0.21
2 N028202 1.11 -0.98 0.20
3 N028203 1.34 -1.20 0.30
4 N028301 0.67 0.55 0.36
5 N028302 0.70 -2.21 0.25
6 N028401 0.83 0.08 0.34
7 N028402 1.13 -0.24 0.22
8 N028501 1.42 -0.08 0.33
9 N028502 0.97 -0.01 0.22
10 N028503 1.42 -0.44 0.30
11 N028504 0.61 -0.74 0.29

Last updated 09 July 2009 (JL)