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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Estimation of NAEP Score Scales → NAEP Scales → Scale Composition by Item Type for New and Trend Blocks → Civics Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 12
NAEP Technical DocumentationCivics Assessment Subscale Composition for New and Previously Administered Blocks at Grade 12
| Scale | Multiple-choice items | Dichotomously scored constructed-response items | Polytomously scored constructed-response items | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scaled | Dropped | Scaled | Dropped | Polytomous (uncollapsed) | Dichotomous collapsed | Polytomous collapsed | Dropped | |
| NOTE: Single overall scale. "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 Civics Assessment. |
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| Total | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scale | Multiple-choice items | Dichotomously scored constructed-response items | Polytomously scored constructed-response items | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concurrent | Split | Dropped | Concurrent | Split | Dropped | Polytomous (uncollapsed) | Dichotomous collapsed | Polytomous collapsed | Split | Dropped | |
| 1One item is split and collapsed in scaling. NOTE: Single overall scale. Contains two non-trend multiple-choice items. “Concurrent” denotes items that were scaled as the same items across assessment years.“Split” denotes items that were scaled as different items across assessment years. "Dropped" denotes items that were deleted from the final scaling. "Collapsed" denotes items that had categories that were combined and recoded for scaling. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 Civics Assessment. |
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| Total | 90 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 21 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| Block | Total number of items | Number of multiple-choice items | Number of constructed-response items | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-category | 3-category | 4-category | 5-category | |||
| NOTE: For a small number of constructed-response items, adjacent categories were combined. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 Civics Assessment. |
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| Total | 153 | 122 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 0 |
| C3 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| C4 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| C5 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| C6 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| C7 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| C8 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| C9 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| C10 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Last updated 07 January 2016 (GF)
