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Min-Ying Tsai – SAGE Open, 2025
The study aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the emotional-style scale and explore different clusters of emotional styles. An emotional style scale was completed in three districts of western Taiwan using stratified random sampling. The study confirmed the reliability and convergent validity of each subscale in a sample of 712…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Classification, Psychological Patterns
Flunger, Barbara; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin; Lüdtke, Oliver; Niggli, Alois; Schnyder, Inge – Journal of Experimental Education, 2021
The present study illustrates the utility of applying multilevel mixture models in educational research, using data on the homework behavior of 1,812 Swiss eighth-grade students in French as a second language. A previous person-centered study identified 5 homework learning types characterized by different patterns of high or low homework time and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Multivariate Analysis
Toker, Turker; Green, Kathy E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study provides the results of a latent class analysis (LCA) using data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study -- 2011 (TIMSS-2011) with a focus on the 8th grade mathematics section. The study presents the analysis of item data with Mplus 7.31 to determine if results obtained yielded distinct latent subgroups. The data…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
van den Boer, Madelon; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Fluent reading is characterized by rapid and accurate identification of words. It is commonly accepted that such identification relies on the availability of orthographic knowledge. However, whether this orthographic knowledge should be seen as an accumulation of word-specific knowledge in a lexicon acquired through decoding or as a well-developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Processes, Children, Reading
Mofield, Emily L.; Parker Peters, Megan – Roeper Review, 2015
Researchers explored the typology of perfectionism among 153 (46% male, 54% female; 88% White, 8% African American, 5% Asian American, 4% Hispanic, 1% Other) suburban gifted adolescents and compared perfectionism scores (using the Goals and Work Habits Survey, a modification of Frost's Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale [F-MPS]) to samples of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Gifted, Adolescents, Suburbs
Danielle S. McNamara; Scott A. Crossley; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Jianmin Dai – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study evaluates the use of a hierarchical classification approach to automated assessment of essays. Automated essay scoring (AES) generally relies onmachine learning techniques that compute essay scores using a set of text variables. Unlike previous studies that rely on regression models, this study computes essay scores using a hierarchical…
Descriptors: Automation, Scoring, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
Kaosa-ard, Chanapat; Erawan, Waraporn; Damrongpanit, Suntonrapot; Suksawang, Poonpong – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The researcher applied latent profile analysis to study the difference of the students' mathematical process skill. These skills are problem solving skills, reasoning skills, communication and presentation skills, connection knowledge skills, and creativity skills. Samples were 2,485 seventh-grade students obtained from Multi-stage Random…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills, Classification, Statistical Analysis
Sanagi, Tomomi – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2016
Teachers' misunderstanding the concept of inclusive education will not lead to good practices, rather make an exclusive environment for pupils with special educational needs in mainstream schools. This study clarified teachers' attitudes towards the image of inclusive education with conjoint analysis and cluster analysis. The participants for this…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Inclusion, Misconceptions
Klein, Perry D.; Haug, Katrina N.; Arcon, Nina – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
Argument writing is challenging for elementary students. Previous experimental research has focused on scaffolding rhetorical goals, leaving content goals relatively unexplored. In a randomized experiment, 73 students in grades 5, 6, and 7 wrote persuasive texts about difficult-to-classify vertebrates. Each student received one of three sets of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Cues, Content Area Writing
Raufelder, Diana; Jagenow, Danilo; Drury, Kate; Hoferichter, Frances – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
In order to enhance our understanding of individual differences in scholastic motivation, the present study examined if social relationships in school are equally important for motivation across a large sample of adolescent students. Based on past research as well as our preliminary findings, it was hypothesized that there would be four different…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Student Motivation, Interpersonal Relationship, Secondary School Students
Granit-Dgani, Dafna; Kaplan, Avi; Flum, Hanoch – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This article reports on the development of a theory-informed assessment instrument for use in evaluating environmental education programs. The instrument involves coding learners' brief reflective writing on five established educational and social psychological constructs that correspond to five important goals of environmental education:…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Formative Evaluation, Coding, Writing (Composition)
Berkowitz, Ruth; De Pedro, Kris Tunac; Gilreath, Tamika D. – Journal of School Violence, 2015
School victimization is associated with negative social-emotional outcomes and risky behaviors. Most studies have provided definitions and measures of victimization, depicting a limited characterization of victimization in schools. More nuanced analyses of school victimization are needed to assess the heterogeneous pattern of victimization in…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Middle School Students, High School Students, Multivariate Analysis
Clements, Tarol P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This disability category study was created to examine the relationship between the effects of inclusion with co-teaching methodologies on mathematics and language arts scores recorded from TCAP scores for 7th grade students who were found eligible for Special Education as having either a Specific Learning Disability or an Intellectual Disability.…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Middle School Students, Multivariate Analysis, Learning Disabilities
Akos, Patrick; Konold, Tim; Niles, Spencer G. – Career Development Quarterly, 2004
This study explored a career readiness typology of 629 8th-grade students using the Career Factors Inventory. Data revealed developmentally appropriate elevated needs for information, specifically self-knowledge. In addition, cluster analysis demonstrated the heterogeneity of career development needs of 8th-grade students. Typal membership…
Descriptors: Readiness, Classification, Grade 8, Measures (Individuals)
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries