Age | Number of initial group-defining contrasts1 | Number of principal components1 | Proportion2 of scale score variance accounted for by the population-structure model |
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1 Excluding the constant term.
2 (Total Variance – Residual Variance)/Total Variance, where Total Variance consists of both sampling and measurement error variance. NOTE: A single overall scale was used. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2012 Mathematics Long-Term Trend Assessment. |
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9 | 1,036 | 186 | 0.53 |
13 | 1,266 | 211 | 0.55 |
17 | 1,278 | 206 | 0.60 |