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NAEP Analysis and ScalingEstimation of Population and Student Group DistributionsExamining the Population-Structure Models Used in NAEPProportion of Variance Accounted For by Principal Components Used in NAEP Population-Structure Models → Proportion of Variance of the Group-Defining Contrasts Accounted for by the Principal Components Used in the Population-Structure Model, Grade 12 Mathematics Combined National and State Assessment: 2013
NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of variance of the group-defining contrasts accounted for by the principal components used in the population-structure model, grade 12 mathematics combined national and state assessment: 2013
Type of contrastNumber of contrastsMeanMinimumMaximumNumber of contrasts by proportion1 of variance explained
.00 - .70.70 - .80.80 - .90.90 - .95.95 - 1.00
1(footnote1Total Variance – Residual Variance)/Total Variance, where Total Variance consists of sampling, measurement, and other sources of error.
NOTE: SD/ELL = Students with disabilities/English language learners.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Mathematics Assessment.
All contrasts1497.90.67.99466653513261
Student questionnaire339.90.70.9913012310976
Major reporting variables94.92.77.9901312537
Interactions between reporting variables435.90.67.9833313921050
School questionnaire597.90.83.990035215788
SD/ELL questionnaire32.91.79.980281210

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