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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Simonoff, Jeffrey S. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to describe effect coding as an alternative quantitative practice for analyzing and interpreting categorical, multi-raced independent variables in higher education research. Not only may effect coding enable researchers to get closer to respondents' original intentions, it allows for more accurate analyses of all race…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, College Students, Accuracy, Coding
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Lewis, Kirstin – Improving Schools, 2016
Recent UK government policy suggests that all schools have a key role to play in building "character and resilience" in children. This article draws on data from a wider research project, exploring the school experiences of mixed White/Black Caribbean and mixed White/Black African children in two London secondary schools. Because data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiracial Persons, Blacks, Whites
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Tracy, Allison J.; Erkut, Sumru; Porche, Michelle V.; Kim, Jo; Charmaraman, Linda; Grossman, Jennifer M.; Ceder, Ineke; Garcia, Heidie Vazquez – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
In this article, we operationalize identification of mixed racial and ethnic ancestry among adolescents as a latent variable to (a) account for measurement uncertainty, and (b) compare alternative wording formats for racial and ethnic self-categorization in surveys. Two latent variable models were fit to multiple mixed-ancestry indicator data from…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Adolescents, Item Response Theory