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NAEP Technical DocumentationConditional correlations and variances of the reporting subscales, U.S. history national main assessment, by grade: 2006
Grade Subscale Democracy Cultures Technology World role
§ These cells do not display data because this is a correlation matrix. Information is shown for the lower triangle only to eliminate redundant information.
NOTE: Cultures = The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas; Technology = Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment; Democracy = Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies; and World role = The Changing Role of America in the World.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 U.S. History Assessment.
4 Democracy § § § §
Cultures 0.97 § § §
Technology 0.97 0.98 § §
World role 0.94 0.92 0.93 §
Residual variance 0.42 0.31 0.28 0.40
8 Democracy § § § §
Cultures 0.96 § § §
Technology 0.95 0.97 § §
World role 0.96 0.94 0.93 §
Residual variance 0.37 0.32 0.32 0.33
12 Democracy § § § §
Cultures 0.96 § § §
Technology 0.93 0.94 § §
World role 0.94 0.93 0.90 §
Residual variance 0.38 0.31 0.35 0.38

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