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NAEP Analysis and ScalingEstimation of Population and Student Group DistributionsExamining the Population-Structure Models Used in NAEPProportion of Scale Score Variance Accounted for by the Population-Structure Models → Proportion of Scale Score Variance Accounted for by the Population-Structure Model, Grade 8 Reading State Assessment, by Subscale and State/Jurisdiction: 2017

NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of Scale Score Variance Accounted for by the Population-Structure Model, Grade 8 Reading State Assessment, by Subscale and State/Jurisdiction: 2017

Proportion of scale score variance accounted for by the population-structure model, grade 8 reading state assessment, by subscale and state/jurisdiction: 2017
State/jurisdictionNumber of principal components 2Proportion of scale score variance accounted for by the conditioning model 1
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Alabama228.67.72
Alaska104.41.53
Arizona242.66.68
Arkansas244.69.70
California277.70.77
Colorado161.42.48
Connecticut241.67.69
Delaware213.67.69
Florida289.61.66
Georgia253.60.65
Hawaii211.72.72
Idaho236.62.65
Illinois265.67.71
Indiana243.69.67
Iowa243.68.70
Kansas242.68.71
Kentucky245.63.67
Louisiana133.45.47
Maine233.65.68
Maryland247.65.67
Massachusetts244.70.70
Michigan239.65.68
Minnesota234.74.73
Mississippi234.65.69
Missouri244.63.70
Montana114.35.37
Nebraska237.69.75
Nevada246.68.71
New Hampshire221.59.68
New Jersey255.68.68
New Mexico255.63.65
New York254.67.67
North Carolina272.68.71
North Dakota213.64.68
Ohio246.65.73
Oklahoma242.67.69
Oregon234.71.71
Pennsylvania250.67.72
Rhode Island205.73.72
South Carolina254.73.68
South Dakota109.37.40
Tennessee253.66.68
Texas282.66.68
Utah195.60.62
Vermont217.65.71
Virginia257.72.73
Washington252.68.71
West Virginia230.68.67
Wisconsin251.66.70
Wyoming156.52.60
Other jurisdictions
District of Columbia175.74.75
DoDEA197.68.66
1 (Total Variance – Residual Variance) / Total Variance, where Total Variance consists of sampling, measurement, and other sources of error.
2 Excluding the constant term.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2017 Reading Assessment.


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