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​​​​NAEP Technical DocumentationSummary Item Response Rates, Reading Long-Term Trend National Assessment, by Item Type and Age: 2020

Summary item response rates, reading long-term trend national assessment, by item type and age: 2020
StatisticMultiple-choice itemsDichotomous constructed-response itemsPolytomous constructed-response items
Not applicable.
Missing responses include the categories "omitted" and "not-reached."
An "off-task" response (constructed-response items only) is a response that is unrelated to the question.
In 2020, age 17 was not assessed.
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2020 Reading Long-Term Trend Assessment.
Age 9
Number of items7503
Average percent missing5.708.01
Minimum1.135.57
Maximum24.1111.12
Average percent off-task1.15
Minimum0.48
Maximum1.96
Average weighted percent correct65.8234.06
Age 13
Number of items8906
Average percent missing5.085.21
Minimum0.882.94
Maximum22.837.52
Average percent off-task0.45
Minimum0.13
Maximum0.73
Average weighted percent correct76.5451.91


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