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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 8 U.S. History National Assessment: 2014
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Proportion of Variance of the Group-Defining Contrasts Accounted for by the Principal Components Used in the Population-Structure Model, Grade 8 U.S. History National Assessment: 2014

Proportion of variance of the group-defining contrasts accounted for by the principal components used in the population-structure model, grade 8 U.S. history national assessment: 2014
Type of contrastNumber of contrastsMeanMinimumMaximumNumber 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/EL = Students with disabilities/English learners. In 2014, grades 4 and 12 were not assessed.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 U.S. History Assessment.
Total1221.90.62.991444489486188
Student questionnaire203.89.68.98617628236
Major reporting variables75.91.77.9901322319
Interactions between reporting variables247.89.62.988198211028
Teacher questionnaire378.90.82.990020811060
School questionnaire282.92.84.99009114942
SD/EL questionnaire34.87.78.970714103
Student questionnaire indices2.93.93.9300020

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