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Mizumoto, Atsushi – Language Learning, 2023
Researchers often make claims regarding the importance of predictor variables in multiple regression analysis by comparing standardized regression coefficients (standardized beta coefficients). This practice has been criticized as a misuse of multiple regression analysis. As a remedy, I highlight the use of dominance analysis and random forests, a…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Artificial Intelligence, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Plonsky, Luke; Oswald, Frederick L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Second language (L2) research relies heavily and increasingly on ANOVA (analysis of variance)-based results as a means to advance theory and practice. This fact alone should merit some reflection on the utility and value of ANOVA. It is possible that we could use this procedure more appropriately and, as argued here, other analyses such as…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Xi, Xiaoming; Higgins, Derrick; Zechner, Klaus; Williamson, David – Language Testing, 2012
This paper compares two alternative scoring methods--multiple regression and classification trees--for an automated speech scoring system used in a practice environment. The two methods were evaluated on two criteria: construct representation and empirical performance in predicting human scores. The empirical performance of the two scoring models…
Descriptors: Scoring, Classification, Weighted Scores, Comparative Analysis
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Pae, Tae-Il – Language Testing, 2012
This study tracked gender differential item functioning (DIF) on the English subtest of the Korean College Scholastic Aptitude Test (KCSAT) over a nine-year period across three data points, using both the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) and item response theory likelihood ratio (IRT-LR) procedures. Further, the study identified two factors (i.e. reading…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Academic Aptitude, Language Tests, Test Items
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Leong, Che Kan; Tse, Shek Kam; Loh, Ka Yee; Ki, Wing Wah – Reading Psychology, 2011
Orthographic knowledge in Chinese was hypothesized to affect elementary Chinese text comprehension (four essays) by 80 twelve-year-old ethnic alphasyllabary language users compared with 74 native Chinese speakers at similar reading level. This was tested with two rapid automatized naming tasks; two working memory tasks; three orthographic…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Sino Tibetan Languages, Urdu, Chinese
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Huang, Becky H.; Jun, Sun-Ah – Language and Speech, 2011
This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N = 10 in each group) with varying AoA in the United States and ten native speakers of English as controls participated in the study. All participants read a paragraph of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, North American English
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Sturtevant, Elizabeth G.; Kim, Grace S. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
This study examined literacy motivation among middle-school students in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classes by using a 20-question survey and semi-structured interview. The survey results identified similarities among students of different genders, but differences between the beginning ESOL group and the more advanced groups,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Interviews, Multiple Regression Analysis, Literacy
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Baba, Kyoko – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
This study investigated the impact of aspects of the lexical proficiency of EFL students on their summary writing in English (L2) by controlling for the impact of a range of linguistic abilities in English and Japanese (L1). Sixty-eight Japanese undergraduate students wrote two summaries of English texts in English. Their English lexical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Kulis, Stephen; Marsiglia, Flavio Francisco; Nieri, Tanya – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2009
Using a predominately Mexican-origin Latino sample of 5th grade students from the Southwestern United States, this study examined the relative effects of perceived discrimination and acculturation stress on substance use, and it assessed whether these effects were moderated by linguistic acculturation or time in the United States. Although rates…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Acculturation, Grade 5, Student Adjustment
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Breland, Hunter; Lee, Yong-Won – Applied Measurement in Education, 2007
The objective of the present investigation was to examine the comparability of writing prompts for different gender groups in the context of the computer-based Test of English as a Foreign Language[TM] (TOEFL[R]-CBT). A total of 87 prompts administered from July 1998 through March 2000 were analyzed. An extended version of logistic regression for…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Second Language Learning
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Ehri, Linnea C.; Dreyer, Lois G.; Flugman, Bert; Gross, Alan – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
The Reading Rescue tutoring intervention model was investigated with 64 low-socioeconomic status, language-minority first graders with reading difficulties. School staff provided tutoring in phonological awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Tutored students made significantly greater gains reading words…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Consultants
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Akbulut, Yavuz – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
This study investigated factors affecting second/foreign language (L2) reading comprehension in a hypermedia environment within the theoretical framework of dual coding and cognitive load theories, and interactive models of L2 reading. The independent variables were reading ability, topic interest, prior topical knowledge, and the number of times…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Correlation
Hadis, Benjamin F. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
International educators in general, and study abroad advisors in particular, have recognized for many years that United States college students returning from studying abroad show positive changes. According to their impressionistic perceptions, international educators often identify improvements in terms of concern about international affairs,…
Descriptors: College Students, Outcomes of Education, Educational Benefits, Statistical Significance