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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 4 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 4 mathematics combined national and state assessment: 2013
Type of contrast Number of contrasts Mean Minimum Maximum Number of contrasts by proportion1 of variance explained
.00 - .70 .70 - .80 .80 - .90 .90 - .95 .95 - 1.00
1  (Total 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 contrasts 1521 .90 .61 1.00 16 60 598 515 332
Student questionnaire 116 .88 .65 .99 9 13 28 34 32
Major reporting variables 129 .92 .66 1.00 2 2 35 37 53
Interactions between reporting variables 282 .89 .61 .98 5 15 98 126 38
Teacher questionnaire 490 .91 .71 .99 0 13 178 147 152
School questionnaire 463 .89 .75 .98 0 15 246 164 38
SD/ELL questionnaire 41 .91 .77 .99 0 2 13 7 19

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