On the use of rotated context questionnaires in conjunction with multilevel item response models

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Table 17 Summary of differences in correlations with context constructs: science

Country	Construct	Rotation result	Corr. with rotation result	SEr	Corr. with original result	SEo
Colombia	CARPREP	Hilocorrjoint	−0.10	0.02	−0.13	0.02
	ENVAWARE	Hilocorrjoint	0.30	0.03	0.34	0.03
		Hilocorrsep	0.30	0.02	0.34	0.03
	ENVOPT	Samecorrsep	−0.35	0.02	−0.38	0.02
		Hilocorrjoint	−0.33	0.02	−0.38	0.02
		Hilocorrsep	−0.34	0.02	−0.38	0.02
	ENVPERC	Hilocorrjoint	0.17	0.02	0.20	0.02
		Hilocorrsep	0.17	0.02	0.20	0.02
	HEDRES	Hilocorrjoint	0.30	0.03	0.34	0.03
		Hilocorrsep	0.29	0.02	0.34	0.03
	HOMEPOS	Hilocorrjoint	0.31	0.03	0.34	0.03
		Hilocorrsep	0.31	0.03	0.34	0.03
	SCINVEST	Hilocorrjoint	−0.15	0.02	−0.18	0.02
		Hilocorrsep	−0.15	0.02	−0.18	0.02
France	ENVAWARE	Hilocorrjoint	0.46	0.01	0.49	0.01
		Hilocorrsep	0.46	0.01	0.49	0.01
Germany	None
Hong Kong SAR	None
Jordan	ENVAWARE	Hilocorrjoint	0.40	0.02	0.43	0.01
		Hilocorrsep	0.40	0.01	0.43	0.01
Norway	ENVAWARE	Hilocorrjoint	0.38	0.02	0.41	0.02
		Hilocorrsep	0.38	0.02	0.41	0.02
	SCIEEFF	Hilocorrjoint	0.35	0.01	0.38	0.01
	SCSCIE	Hilocorrjoint	0.34	0.01	0.37	0.01
		Hilocorrsep	0.34	0.01	0.37	0.01
Poland	GENSCIE	Hilocorrjoint	0.26	0.01	0.29	0.01
	SCIEEFF	Hilocorrjoint	0.42	0.01	0.45	0.01
		Hilocorrsep	0.42	0.01	0.45	0.01
Russian	CARINFO	Hilocorrjoint	−0.01	0.01	−0.04	0.01
Federation	ENVAWARE	Hilocorrsep	0.37	0.02	0.40	0.02
United States	None

Notes: Only differences between correlation coefficients exceeding 0.03 are reported.
SEr: Standard error of the correlation between the construct and the rotation result.
SEo: Standard error of the correlation between the construct and the original result.