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NAEP Technical DocumentationIRT parameters for items in the literary subscale, grade 12 reading combined national and state assessment, by item and block: 2013
Block Item NAEP ID aj bj cj dj1 dj2 dj3  dj4  dj5 
† Not applicable; c parameters are not estimated for the two-parameter logistic model or generalized partial credit models, and d parameters are not estimated for two-parameter or three-parameter logistic 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 represents the category threshold parameter for category i. The c parameter value is assumed to be exactly zero and is not estimated 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), 2013 Reading Assessment.
R1 1 R059601 0.56 -0.05 .17
2 R059602 0.63 -0.70 .27
3 R059603 0.76 -0.95 .20
4 R059604 0.82 -1.87
5 R059610 0.36 -0.41 -0.06 -0.25 0.31
6 R059606 0.69 -0.97 0.22 -0.22
7 R059605 0.65 0.51 0.85 -0.85
8 R059608 0.55 -1.19 .27
9 R059609 0.84 -1.98 .23
10 R059607 0.51 -1.35 -0.07 0.07
R2 1 R069801 0.41 -1.59 2.54 -2.54
2 R069802 0.79 -0.44 .14
3 R069803 1.35 -1.26 .21
4 R069804 0.98 -0.51 0.85 -0.85
5 R069805 0.62 -0.48 .25
6 R069806 0.54 -0.56 1.25 0.39 -1.64
7 R069807 1.13 -1.03 .30
8 R069808 0.96 -1.42 .20
9 R069809 0.83 -1.20 .30
10 R069810 0.50 -0.38 0.11 -0.11
R5 1 R061601 1.41 -0.82 .43
2 R061602 0.72 -0.65 -0.05 0.05
3 R061603 1.11 -1.42 .34
4 R061604 0.68 -1.05 1.16 -1.16
5 R061605 1.28 0.04 .29
6 R061606 0.73 0.56 0.11 -0.11
7 R061607 0.75 -0.02 0.91 0.47 -1.38
8 R061608 1.27 1.35
9 R061609 1.40 1.02 .22
R6 1 R078901 0.97 0.61 .18
2 R078902 0.83 -1.30 .24
3 R078903 0.58 -0.26 0.31 -0.31
4 R078904 1.15 1.01 .25
5 R078905 0.57 0.56 1.20 -0.91 -0.30
6 R078906 1.11 0.17 .20
7 R078907 0.78 0.02
8 R078908 0.24 -0.27 .22
9 R078909 1.35 -0.13 .25
10 R078910 1.46 -0.44 .32

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