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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Estimation of Population and Student Group Distributions → Examining the Population-Structure Models Used in NAEP → Proportion of Scale Score Variance Accounted for by the Population-Structure Models → Proportion of Scale Score Variance Accounted for by the Population-Structure Model, Grade 4 Reading National Main Assessment (Accommodations Permitted[R3]): 2000
NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of scale score variance accounted for by the population-structure model, grade 4 reading national main assessment (accommodations permitted [R3]): 2000
Number of initial group-defining contrasts2 Number of principal components2 Proportion1 of scale score variance
Reading for literary experience Reading to gain information
1,117 380 0.67 0.66
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 Reading Assessment.

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