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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, Age 9 Mathematics Long-Term Trend National Assessment, by Type of Contrast: 2022

​​​​​​NAEP Technical DocumentationProportion of Variance of the Group-Defining Contrasts Accounted for by the Principal Components Used in the Population-Structure Model, Age 9 Mathematics Long-Term Trend National Assessment, by Type of Contrast: 2022

Proportion of variance of the group-defining contrasts accounted for by the principal components used in the population-structure model, age 9 mathematics long-term trend national assessment, by type of contrast: 2022
Type of contrastNumber of contrastsMeanMinimumMaximumNumber of contrasts by proportion of variance explained
.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.
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2022 Mathematics Long-Term Trend Assessment.
All contrasts1209.90.75.99033504560112
Student questionnaire125.91.75.9807306127
Major reporting variables97.92.79.9902303728
Interactions between reporting variables775.89.75.9802438733430
School questionnaire212.92.87.99005712827




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