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Shunji Wang; Katerina M. Marcoulides; Jiashan Tang; Ke-Hai Yuan – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
A necessary step in applying bi-factor models is to evaluate the need for domain factors with a general factor in place. The conventional null hypothesis testing (NHT) was commonly used for such a purpose. However, the conventional NHT meets challenges when the domain loadings are weak or the sample size is insufficient. This article proposes…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Error of Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods
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Oscar Clivio; Avi Feller; Chris Holmes – Grantee Submission, 2024
Reweighting a distribution to minimize a distance to a target distribution is a powerful and flexible strategy for estimating a wide range of causal effects, but can be challenging in practice because optimal weights typically depend on knowledge of the underlying data generating process. In this paper, we focus on design-based weights, which do…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Causal Models, Error of Measurement, Guidelines
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Çibik, Naz Fulya; Boz-Yaman, Burçak – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to integrate mathematical modeling and ecology by presenting an activity involving an authentic environmental problem, which is called "Pine Processionary Caterpillars Invasion." Adopting Mathematical Modeling and Education for Climate Action (EfCA) approaches, it was aimed to encourage pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Ecology, Climate, Problem Solving
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Green, Jennifer L.; Smith, Wendy M.; Kerby, April T.; Blankenship, Erin E.; Schmid, Kendra K.; Carlson, Mary Alice – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2018
In this study, we examined how in-service middle-level mathematics teachers used statistics in their own classroom research. Using an embedded single-case design, we analyzed a purposefully selected sample of nine teachers' classroom research papers, identifying several themes within each phase of the statistical problem solving process to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers
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Herzog, Stefan M.; Hertwig, Ralph – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Individuals can partly recreate the "wisdom of crowds" within their own minds by combining nonredundant estimates they themselves have generated. Herzog and Hertwig (2009) showed that this accuracy gain could be boosted by urging people to actively think differently when generating a 2nd estimate ("dialectical bootstrapping").…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Inference, Experimental Psychology, Hypothesis Testing
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McRoberts, Timothy J.; Miller, Tess – Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2015
Instruments designed to track student changes in higher education are essential for monitoring program development in competitive higher education markets. As part of a developmental evaluation, a student questionnaire was developed and piloted to examine attrition rates in college programs. The purpose of the questionnaire was to explore factors…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attrition, Withdrawal (Education), Questionnaires
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Duffy, Ryan D.; Allan, Blake A.; Dik, Bryan J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
The present study examined the relation of calling and academic satisfaction with a diverse sample of 312 undergraduate students. The presence of a calling was moderately correlated with academic satisfaction, and a multiple mediation model was utilized to test three potential mediators to this relation: career decision self-efficacy, work hope,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Relationship, Career Choice, Hermeneutics
Wilde, Elizabeth Ty; Hollister, Robinson – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2002
In this study we test the performance of some nonexperimental estimators of impacts applied to an educational intervention--reduction in class size--where achievement test scores were the outcome. We compare the nonexperimental estimates of the impacts to "true impact" estimates provided by a random-assignment design used to assess the…
Descriptors: Computation, Outcome Measures, Achievement Tests, Scores