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Hart, Caroline O.; Mueller, Christian E.; Royal, Kenneth D.; Jones, Martin H. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
Achievement goal theory helps describe how and why students engage in various academic behaviors. Historically, achievement goals have been examined almost exclusively with undergraduate, nonminority samples, and predominately with factor analytic techniques. The present study adds to a growing literature by providing initial validation of a…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, High School Students, African American Students
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Villodas, Feion; Villodas, Miguel T.; Roesch, Scott – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2011
The psychometric properties of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule were examined in a multiethnic sample of adolescents. Results from confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the original two-factor model did not adequately fit the data. Exploratory factor analyses revealed that four items were not pure markers of the factors. (Contains 1…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Adolescents, Psychometrics, Affective Behavior
Cobb, Casey D. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
The study under review is the second-year evaluation report of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), a publicly funded voucher program that allows low-income students in Milwaukee to attend secular and religious private schools in that city. Its primary finding is that there were no overall statistically significant differences in…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Research Methodology, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems