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Lubart, Todd; Besançon, Maud – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
Creativity is a 21st-century skill that is receiving increasing attention in schools. One of the key issues that needs to be solved to facilitate the education of creativity is its' measurement. There is however ongoing controversy on the measurement of creativity. This is an issue of debate concerning both children, adolescents' and adults'…
Descriptors: Creativity, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Educational Environment
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Ludtke, Oliver; Robitzsch, Alexander; Trautwein, Ulrich; Asparouhov, Tihomir; Muthen, Bengt; Nagengast, Benjamin – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2009
This article is a methodological-substantive synergy. Methodologically, we demonstrate latent-variable contextual models that integrate structural equation models (with multiple indicators) and multilevel models. These models simultaneously control for and unconfound measurement error due to sampling of items at the individual (L1) and group (L2)…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Context Effect, Models, Structural Equation Models
Horng, Eileen Lai; Klasik, Daniel; Loeb, Susanna – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
School principals have complex jobs. To better understand the work lives of principals, this study uses observational time-use data for all high school principals in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This paper examines the relationship between the time principals spent on different types of activities and school outcomes including student…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Principals, High Schools, Time Management
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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
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Wilson, Noel – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1998
Explores the ways in which error in measurement related to educational standards and the classification of people in educational settings is obscured in most of the practical events involving the assessment of individuals. Establishes the centrality of the measurement of educational standards to the "production" and control of the individual in…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Borland, Melvin V.; Howsen, Roy M.; Trawick, Michelle W. – Education Economics, 2005
Despite the existence of a considerable and current educational literature concerned with the effect of class size on student achievement, the results of attempts to empirically identify the relationship between the variables class size and student achievement are mixed at best. These attempts have typically been hindered, however, by the…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Environment
Scott, Leslie A.; And Others – 1995
This report describes the growth in cognitive skills and achievement, and the continuities and discontinuities experienced in school and at home by the eighth-grade cohort of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) during the 2 years between the study's base year (1988) and the first-followup (1990) surveys. The report examines…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes