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NAEP Technical DocumentationMarginal correlations of the subscales, by grade, U.S. history national main assessment (accommodations permitted [R3]): 2001

Grade	Scale	Democracy1	Cultures2	Technology3	World role4
4	Democracy	§	§	§	§
	Cultures	0.88	§	§	§
	Technology	0.88	0.89	§	§
	World role	0.81	0.83	0.80	§
8	Democracy	§	§	§	§
	Cultures	0.93	§	§	§
	Technology	0.92	0.92	§	§
	World role	0.90	0.89	0.86	§
12	Democracy	§	§	§	§
	Cultures	0.92	§	§	§
	Technology	0.93	0.92	§	§
	World role	0.92	0.89	0.89	§
§ This is a lower triangular symmetrical table. 1 Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies. 2 The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas. 3 Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment. 4 The Changing Role of America in the World. NOTE: Values in the table were obtained by computing a separate Pearson correlation coefficient for each plausible value, computing Fisher’s z-transformation for each value, computing the average of the transformed values, and computing the inverse transformation of the average. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2001 U.S. History Assessment.

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