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Gotch, Chad M.; French, Brian F. – Educational Assessment, 2020
The State of Washington requires school districts to file court petitions on students with excessive unexcused absences. The "Washington Assessment of Risks and Needs of Students" (WARNS), a self-report screening instrument developed for use by high school and juvenile court personnel in such situations, purports to measure six facets of…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Needs Assessment, Truancy, Measurement Techniques
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Hassija, Christina M.; Jakupcak, Matthew; Gray, Matt J. – Behavior Modification, 2012
Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans experience significant rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related mental health conditions. Understanding how specific PTSD symptomatology affects physical health and psychosocial functioning may be useful in improving the conceptualization of PTSD nosology and informing treatment…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physical Health, Depression (Psychology), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Kim, Seong-Hyeon; Beretvas, S. Natasha; Sherry, Alissa R. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2010
This study investigated the Outcome Questionnaire's (OQ-45) factor structure and demonstrated the use of factor mixture modeling (FMM) for the purpose of score validation. OQ-45 scores did not fit the one-class, one- and three-factor models. Use of FMM to identify a two-class model is detailed. Implications for OQ-45 users are provided. (Contains…
Descriptors: Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Scores
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Crisp, Gloria; Cruz, Irene – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2010
The present study validated the underlying domains that comprise the mentoring experiences of students attending a Hispanic Serving Institution. Mentoring was hypothesized to comprise four interrelated components as measured by the College Student Mentoring Scale. "T" test results indicated different groups of students received similar mentoring…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Test Results, Factor Structure
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Matson, Johnny L.; Gonzalez, Melissa; Wilkins, Jonathan – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2009
The Autism Spectrum Disorders-Diagnostic for Children (ASD-DC) is a 40-item Likert format scale designed to serve in the diagnosis of children and adolescents from 2 to 16 years of age. The reliability and factor structure of the scale have been established in previous research. Studies 1 and 2 were designed to evaluate the validity of the measure…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Validity, Factor Structure
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Pazos, Pilar; Micari, Marina; Light, Gregory – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
Collaborative learning is being used extensively by educators at all levels. Peer-led team learning in a version of collaborative learning that has shown consistent success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Using a multi-phase research study we describe the development of an observation instrument that can be used to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Peer Teaching, Classification, Group Dynamics
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Higa-McMillan, Charmaine K.; Smith, Rita L.; Chorpita, Bruce F.; Hayashi, Kentaro – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
With the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association. "Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders DSM-IV Fourth Edition-Text Revision". Author, Washington, DC. 2000) ahead, decisions will be made about the future of taxonomic conceptualizations. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Children
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Hove, Oddbjorn; Havik, Odd E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The DC-LD is a new classification system providing operationalized diagnostic criteria in recognition of lacking applicability of standard psychiatric criteria for adults with intellectual disability. This study attempts to evaluate internal consistency, inter-rater reliability and factor structure of the Psychopathology Checklists for Adults with…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Psychopathology, Check Lists, Classification
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Walters, Glenn D.; Duncan, Scott A.; Mitchell-Perez, Kari – Assessment, 2007
A taxometric analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is conducted on a group of 409 male maximum-, medium-, and minimum-security federal prison inmates using the four PCL-R facet scores (interpersonal, affective, impulsive lifestyle, and antisocial behavior) as indicators. Results obtained from three quasi-independent taxometric…
Descriptors: Scores, Correctional Institutions, Antisocial Behavior, Factor Structure
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Kotov, Roman; Schmidt, Norman B.; Lerew, Darin R.; Joiner, Thomas E.; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – Psychological Assessment, 2005
Taxometrics is a statistical tool that can be used to discern categories from continua. Taxometric analyses (MAXCOV and MAXEIG) were conducted in a large nonclinical sample (N=1,215) to determine whether extreme anxiety forms a distinct psychopathological category, an anxiety taxon. Anxiety was operationalized with self-report measures of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Validity, Anxiety, Factor Structure
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Anderson, Carolyn J. – Psychometrika, 1996
Generalizations of L. A. Goodman's RC(M) association model (1991 and earlier) are presented for three-way tables. These three-mode association models use L. R. Tucker's three-mode components model (1964, 1966) to represent the three-factor interaction or the combined effects of two- and three-factor interactions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Equations (Mathematics)
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Furnham, Adrian – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
In all 245 British adults provided self- and parental estimates on a normal IQ distribution scale of the 20 second-order abilities identified by Cattell [Cattell, R. (1971). "Abilities: Their structure, growth and action." New York: Houghton Mifflin] as well as their and their parents' overall (g) IQ. After controlling for age,…
Descriptors: Lay People, Gender Differences, Factor Structure, Intelligence Quotient
Robinson, Clyde C.; And Others – 1996
This study examined the psychometric characteristics of a 62-item parenting questionnaire completed by parents from the United States, Australia, China, and Russia. Factor analyses yielded three global parenting dimensions for each culture which were consistent with D. Baumrind's (1971) authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive typologies. The…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Child Development, Child Rearing, Classification