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Darcy, Maria U. A.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
The authors examined circumplex models of interest structure across time (Grades 8, 10, and 12), gender, and analytic method in a secondary analysis of vocational interest type (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) data generated from the American College Testing database (national sample of 69,987 students).…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Structural Equation Models, Multidimensional Scaling, Vocational Interests
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Nagy, Gabriel; Trautwein, Ulrich; Baumert, Jurgen; Koller, Olaf; Garrett, Jessica – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
Predictions about processes linking gender to students' choices of advanced courses were derived from the internal/external frame of reference (I/E) model and expectancy value (EV) theory. The predictions were tested for the domains of mathematics and biology using data from 1,148 students attending academically oriented secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, High School Students, Females
Donoghue, John R.; Mazzeo, John – 1995
At grades 8 and 12, the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment contained a small number of 50-minute blocks in addition to the usual 25-minute blocks. To determine whether to incorporate the 50-minute blocks into the operational scaling, this study sought to determine whether the longer blocks measured a…
Descriptors: Chi Square, Goodness of Fit, Grade 12, Grade 8