Block-level Descriptive Statistics as Defined After Scaling, Grade 8 Geography National Assessment, by Public and Nonpublic School Sessions: 2014

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Block-level Descriptive Statistics as Defined After Scaling, Grade 8 Geography National Assessment, by Public and Nonpublic School Sessions: 2014
Block-level descriptive statistics as defined after scaling, grade 8 geography national assessment, by public and nonpublic school sessions: 2014
Statistic	Type of school¹	Block G3	Block G4	Block G5	Block G6	Block G7	Block G8	Block G9
Number of scaled items	†	17	16	16	16	14	17	25
Unweighted sample size	Public	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	1,900
Unweighted sample size	Nonpublic	240	240	220	230	230	240	240
Weighted average item score²	Public	.48	.51	.50	.41	.56	.46	.54
Weighted average item score²	Nonpublic	.55	.58	.60	.49	.65	.54	.60
Weighted average polyserial	Public	.56	.51	.51	.51	.60	.48	.52
Weighted average polyserial	Nonpublic	.56	.50	.49	.47	.62	.48	.51
Weighted alpha reliability	Public	.73	.70	.71	.72	.74	.67	.80
Weighted alpha reliability	Nonpublic	.74	.67	.64	.68	.73	.68	.76
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item³	Public	.96	.93	.90	.86	.72	.90	.98
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item³	Nonpublic	.96	.98	.95	.87	.81	.93	1.00
† Not applicable. ¹ Nonpublic school sample includes only private schools, including Catholic schools. ²The "Weighted average item score" of polytomous items are standarized to have a scale of 0 to 1 so they are comparable to dichotomously scored items. ³ 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. In 2014, grades 4 and 12 were not assessed. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 Geography Assessment.

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