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Goddard, Roger D.; Skrla, Linda – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine how school social composition is related to perceived collective efficacy. Several hypotheses tested in this research were derived from social cognitive theory and based on the extant literature. Participants: Data were drawn from 1,981 teachers in 41 K-8 schools in a diverse urban school…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Self Efficacy, African American Teachers, Elementary Schools
McCoach, D. Betsy – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2003
Structural equation modeling (SEM) refers to a family of statistical techniques that explores the relationships among a set of variables. Structural equation modeling provides an extremely versatile method to model very specific hypotheses involving systems of variables, both measured and unmeasured. Researchers can use SEM to study patterns of…
Descriptors: Gifted, Structural Equation Models, Factor Analysis, Enrichment