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Christopher E. Shank – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation compares the performance of equivalence test (EQT) and null hypothesis test (NHT) procedures for identifying invariant and noninvariant factor loadings under a range of experimental manipulations. EQT is the statistically appropriate approach when the research goal is to find evidence of group similarity rather than group…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Intervals, Comparative Analysis
Park, Jungeun – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in collegiate mathematics education, especially teaching and learning calculus (e.g., Oehrtman, Carlson, & Thompson, 2008; Speer, Smith, & Horvath, 2010). Of many calculus concepts, the derivative is known as a difficult concept for students to understand because it involves various concepts…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Intervals, Student Surveys, Calculus
Malik, Qaiser Hameed – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research study focused on freshman attitudes towards engineering in a newly implemented cornerstone sequence that emphasized holistic design experiences. The students' initial attitudes and changes in these attitudes were examined with the explanatory mixed methods approach that allows a sequential examination of the target population with…
Descriptors: Intervals, Student Attitudes, Group Dynamics, Engineering
Gover, Kristie S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An identified gap in the literature associated with college student alcohol use is the exploration of the problem based on ethnicity, specifically possible differences in use between Black and White college students. The purpose of the present study was to examine differences in alcohol use for Black and White college students at a small private…
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnicity, Educational Planning, Intervals
Weinstein, Donna R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The family is a system affecting each member directly and indirectly. This study examines the effect on the family when mother returns to graduate studies. This study also focuses attention on the child's report of how mother's returning to school affects the parents and the child. In the current study four women commencing studies for their…
Descriptors: Intervals, Mothers, Focus Groups, Doctoral Dissertations
Warren, David – ProQuest LLC, 2009
For the last five decades, the medial temporal lobes have been generally understood to facilitate enduring representation of certain kinds of information. In particular, knowledge about the relations among items and concepts appears to rely on that region of the brain. Recent results suggest that those same structures also play a subtle role in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Visual Stimuli, Play, Intervals
Stern, Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Computer assisted psychomotor training is recognized as an appropriate tool in motor skill acquisition in adults with and without physical limitations. In specialized populations of individuals with physical deficits such as Parkinson's disease, previous researchers have examined the application of computer assisted training during upper extremity…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Cues
Eggert, Jeanette Gibeson – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Effectiveness was operationalized as a combination of successful developmental course completion, high student satisfaction at the end of the course, and high academic achievement in a subsequent college-level math course. Instructional methodologies were similar to the extent that the instructional delivery systems allowed. With a sample size of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Mathematics, Developmental Programs, Conventional Instruction