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NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of scale score variance accounted for by the population-structure models, grade 4 science state assessment (accommodations not permitted [R2]): By jurisdiction, 2000

Jurisdiction	Number of principal components2	Proportion1 of scale score variance
		Physical science	Earth science	Life science
Alabama	177	0.69	0.69	0.65
Arizona	183	0.71	0.69	0.69
Arkansas	171	0.70	0.69	0.64
California	170	0.79	0.74	0.73
Connecticut	179	0.70	0.73	0.67
Georgia	183	0.69	0.63	0.63
Hawaii	193	0.70	0.64	0.67
Idaho	160	0.76	0.68	0.65
Illinois	147	0.72	0.69	0.71
Indiana	156	0.65	0.61	0.64
Iowa	149	0.55	0.50	0.56
Kentucky	165	0.63	0.59	0.52
Louisiana	181	0.70	0.66	0.67
Maine	169	0.69	0.63	0.51
Maryland	170	0.64	0.68	0.64
Massachusetts	179	0.67	0.68	0.64
Michigan	150	0.67	0.69	0.62
Minnesota	164	0.68	0.68	0.67
Mississippi	176	0.70	0.64	0.60
Missouri	177	0.70	0.66	0.61
Montana	137	0.73	0.71	0.71
Nebraska	144	0.71	0.66	0.67
Nevada	186	0.71	0.65	0.62
New Mexico	180	0.73	0.70	0.76
New York	154	0.70	0.72	0.65
North Carolina	175	0.64	0.63	0.61
North Dakota	174	0.62	0.62	0.60
Ohio	160	0.67	0.63	0.67
Oklahoma	183	0.61	0.60	0.61
Oregon	162	0.71	0.69	0.74
Rhode Island	179	0.75	0.69	0.72
South Carolina	179	0.69	0.66	0.66
Tennessee	173	0.68	0.65	0.62
Texas	178	0.70	0.71	0.67
Utah	181	0.59	0.61	0.64
Vermont	138	0.65	0.68	0.72
Virginia	174	0.68	0.62	0.64
West Virginia	179	0.59	0.56	0.51
Wyoming	159	0.65	0.57	0.57
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	93	0.79	0.73	0.76
DDESS3	141	0.63	0.62	0.63
DoDDS4	170	0.56	0.51	0.50
Guam	126	0.72	0.72	0.75
Virgin Islands	97	0.70	0.66	0.67
1 Proportion is (Total Variance - Residual Variance)/Total Variance. 2 Excluding the constant term. 3 Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools. 4 Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000 Science Assessment.

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