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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Initial Activities → Classical Item Analysis → Block-Level Descriptive Statistics for Public- and Nonpublic-School Sessions as Defined After Scaling, Grade 8 Reading Vocabulary National Assessment: 2009

NAEP Technical DocumentationBlock-level descriptive statistics for public- and nonpublic-school sessions as defined after scaling, grade 8 reading vocabulary national assessment: 2009
Statistic Type of school1 Block R14 Block R15 Block R16 Block R17 Block R18 Block R19 Embedded blocks
† Not applicable.
# Rounds to zero.
1 Nonpublic-school sample includes only Catholic and private schools.
2 The "Weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 - (Percent not responding to last item /100).
NOTE: Item statistics in this table are described on the page Blocks of Items. The Embedded Blocks column contains information about all the Reading Vocabulary items embedded within the 25-minute Reading comprehension blocks. The unweighted sample associated with the embedded items is the average unweighted sample across all embedded Reading Vocabulary items.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Reading Vocabulary Assessment.
Number of scaled items 6 5 5 5 5 5 24.00
Unweighted sample size Public 1,200 1,500 1,500 1,200 1,200 1,200 11,400
Nonpublic # # # # # # 200
Weighted average item score Public 0.53 0.57 0.91 0.76 0.75 0.76 0.73
Nonpublic 0.60 0.73 0.91 0.88 0.90 0.85 0.82
Weighted average polyserial Public 0.67 0.76 1.25 0.92 0.89 0.85 0.64
Nonpublic 0.54 0.69 1.15 0.53 1.30 0.74 0.63
Weighted alpha reliability Public 0.45 0.53 0.75 0.63 0.65 0.49
Nonpublic 0.25 0.33 0.75 -0.06 0.83 0.42
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item2 Public 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.99 0.99 1.00
Nonpublic 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Last updated 05 January 2016 (GF)