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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 and Contrast-Coded Direct Covariates Used in the Population-Structure Model, Grade 4 Mathematics Combined National and State Assessment, by Type of Contrast: 2022

​​​NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of Variance of the Group-Defining Contrasts Accounted for by the Principal Components and Contrast-Coded Direct Covariates Used in the Population-Structure Model, Grade 4 Mathematics Combined National and State Assessment, by Type of Contrast: 2022

Proportion of variance of the group-defining contrasts accounted for by the principal components and contrast-coded direct covariates used in the population-structure model, grade 4 mathematics combined national and state assessment, by type of contrast: 2022
Type of contrastNumber of contrastsMeanTotalReportableNumber of contrasts by proportion of variance explained
MinimumMaximumMinimumMaximum.00 - .70.70 - .80.80 - .90.90 - .95.95 - 1.00
(Total Variance – Residual Variance) / Total Variance, where Total Variance includes variance accounted and unaccounted for by the variables in the population-structure model.
The major reporting variables include the contrasts from the direct covariates.
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2022 Mathematics Assessment.
All contrasts1506.83.031.00.031.0031662112192824
Student questionnaire295.93.151.00.151.0011153156182
Major reporting variables151.63.031.00.031.0072661057
Interactions between reporting variables174.73.07.99.07.99678123255
Teacher questionnaire421.87.081.00.081.0061123030288
School questionnaire465.82.061.00.061.00105213364242


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