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NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of scale score variance accounted for by the population-structure model, grade 8 reading state assessment, by jurisdiction: 2013
Jurisdiction Number of principal components Proportion1 of scale score variance accounted for by the conditioning model
Literary Information
1 (Total Variance – Residual Variance)/Total Variance, where Total Variance consists of sampling, measurement, and other sources of error.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Reading Assessment.
Alabama 231 .66 .65
Alaska 121 .53 .57
Arizona 273 .68 .62
Arkansas 262 .66 .68
California 331 .66 .68
Colorado 274 .67 .69
Connecticut 261 .66 .70
Delaware 208 .61 .60
Florida 320 .58 .62
Georgia 261 .63 .64
Hawaii 229 .62 .65
Idaho 252 .62 .64
Illinois 292 .65 .66
Indiana 248 .61 .63
Iowa 257 .63 .65
Kansas 273 .67 .65
Kentucky 264 .54 .55
Louisiana 260 .65 .66
Maine 258 .58 .62
Maryland 266 .61 .63
Massachusetts 285 .67 .69
Michigan 259 .62 .61
Minnesota 254 .64 .70
Mississippi 244 .64 .66
Missouri 258 .66 .69
Montana 245 .63 .66
Nebraska 253 .61 .64
Nevada 274 .64 .62
New Hampshire 245 .63 .59
New Jersey 255 .65 .66
New Mexico 286 .62 .63
New York 290 .65 .68
North Carolina 285 .62 .69
North Dakota 229 .55 .60
Ohio 264 .62 .64
Oklahoma 272 .68 .62
Oregon 275 .67 .70
Pennsylvania 273 .65 .67
Rhode Island 230 .65 .65
South Carolina 256 .64 .67
South Dakota 231 .60 .61
Tennessee 241 .60 .63
Texas 310 .67 .67
Utah 267 .62 .62
Vermont 239 .63 .64
Virginia 273 .66 .67
Washington 282 .65 .65
West Virginia 248 .62 .65
Wisconsin 281 .64 .68
Wyoming 225 .59 .59
Other jurisdictions
District of Columbia 173 .65 .71
DoDEA 201 .56 .56

Last updated 21 May 2017 (DC)