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NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of scale score variance accounted for by the population-structure model and grade, mathematics national main assessment (accommodations permitted [R3]): 2000

Grade	Number of initial group-defining contrasts2	Number of principal components2	Proportion1 of scale score variance
			Number sense properties and operations	Measurement	Geometry and spatial sense	Data analysis statistics and probability	Algebra and functions
4	1,038	386	0.65	0.66	0.65	0.70	0.64
8	1,121	431	0.66	0.69	0.63	0.70	0.69
12	1,135	374	0.71	0.74	0.76	0.72	0.79
1 Proportion is (Total Variance – Residual Variance)/Total Variance. 2 Excluding the constant term. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000 Mathematics Assessment.

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