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Xu, Jianzhong – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
The author examined purposes for doing homework as perceived by 969 eighth-grade students from 52 classes and 831 11th-grade students from 45 classes. Through an exploratory factor analysis, 15 homework purposes were reduced to a 3-factor structure: peer-oriented, adult-oriented, and learning-oriented reasons. A series of 3 multilevel models were…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Sands, Tovah; Plunkett, Scott W. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2005
The purpose of this article was to report factor structures, reliability, and validity of the Significant Other Academic Support Scale from two different Latino samples of Mexican and Central American origin youth. Self-report data were collected from 394 Mexican and 220 Central American youth from immigrant families living in Los Angeles.…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Mexican Americans, Family Relationship, Predictive Validity