Statistic | Type of school1 | Block R14 | Block R15 | Block R16 | Block R17 | Block R18 | Block R19 | Embedded blocks |
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† 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. |
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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 | † |