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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Estimation of NAEP Score Scales → NAEP Scales → Correlations Among NAEP Subject Area Subscales → Marginal Correlations of the Subscales, by Grade, U.S. History National Main Assessment (Accommodations Not Permitted [R2]): 2001
Marginal correlations of the subscales, by grade, U.S. history national main assessment (accommodations not permitted [R2]): 2001
Grade Scale Democracy1 Cultures2 Technology3 World role4
4 Democracy § § § §
Cultures 0.87 § § §
Technology 0.88 0.89 § §
World role 0.81 0.83 0.80 §
8 Democracy § § § §
Cultures 0.92 § § §
Technology 0.91 0.91 § §
World role 0.89 0.89 0.85 §
12 Democracy § § § §
Cultures 0.92 § § §
Technology 0.92 0.92 § §
World role 0.92 0.89 0.89 §
§ This is a lower triangular symmetrical table.
1 Change and Continuity in American Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, Practices, and Controversies.
2 The Gathering of Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas.
3 Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment.
4 The Changing Role of America in the World.
NOTE: Values in the table were obtained by computing a separate Pearson correlation coefficient for each plausible value, computing Fisher’s z-transformation for each value, computing the average of the transformed values, and computing the inverse transformation of the average.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2001 U.S. History Assessment.
Last updated 11 July 2008 (DR)

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