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Direct linkHong, Guanglei; Yu, Bing – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study examines the effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development in the early, middle, and late elementary years. Previous studies have generated mixed results partly due to some major methodological challenges, including selection bias, measurement error, and divergent perceptions of multiple respondents in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Social Development, Error of Measurement, Kindergarten
Bartels, Meike; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Hudziak, James J.; van Beijsterveldt, Toos C. E. M.; van den Oord, Edwin J. C. G. – Psychological Methods, 2007
Genetically informative data can be used to address fundamental questions concerning the measurement of behavior in children. The authors illustrate this with longitudinal multiple-rater data on internalizing problems in twins. Valid information on the behavior of a child is obtained for behavior that multiple raters agree upon and for…
Descriptors: Twins, Behavior Problems, Genetics, Error of Measurement
Wang, Ming-Te – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The present study used an ecological framework to examine the relationships among adolescents' perceptions of school climate, social competence, and behavioral and psychological adjustment in the middle school years. This study improved upon prior studies by using "structural equation modeling" to investigate the hypothesized mediating…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents, Error of Measurement
Yechiam, Eldad; Goodnight, Jackson; Bates, John E.; Busemeyer, Jerome R.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Newman, Joseph P. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
This article proposes and tests a formal cognitive model for the go/no-go discrimination task. In this task, the performer chooses whether to respond to stimuli and receives rewards for responding to certain stimuli and punishments for responding to others. Three cognitive models were evaluated on the basis of data from a longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Task Analysis, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
Cicchetti, Domenic V.; Kaufman, Alan S.; Sparrow, Sara S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2004
Our purpose in this report is to evaluate scientifically that body of literature relating the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) upon neurobehavioral, health-related, and cognitive deficits in neonates, developing infants, children, and adults. The data derive from seven cohorts: six cohorts of mothers…
Descriptors: Neonates, Validity, Psychomotor Skills, Prenatal Influences
