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Measurement Invariance in Comparing Attitudes toward Immigrants among Youth across Europe in 1999 and 2009: The Alignment Method Applied to IEA CIVED and ICCS
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Munck, Ingrid; Barber, Carolyn; Torney-Purta, Judith – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
This study applies the alignment method, a technique for assessing measurement equivalence across many groups, to the analysis of adolescents' support for immigrants' rights in a pooled data set from the 1999 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study and the 2009 IEA International Civics…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Immigrant and Native-Born Adolescents' Civic Knowledge and Attitudes in Sweden and the United States: Emergent Citizenship within Developmental Niches
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Barber, Carolyn; Torney-Purta, Judith; Wilkenfeld, Britt; Ross, Jessica – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2015
Using the Developmental Niche for Emergent Participatory Citizenship (Torney-Purta and Amadeo, 2011) as a framework, we examined differences between immigrant and native-born youth's civic knowledge and support for women's rights in Sweden and the United States, and explored whether experiences with peers and parents, and in formal and informal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Adolescents, Citizenship
A Typology of Youth Civic Engagement in Urban Middle Schools
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Voight, Adam; Torney-Purta, Judith – Applied Developmental Science, 2013
Youth civic engagement occupies a central space in applied developmental science. However, understanding of the processes and contexts in which early adolescents become civically engaged is still limited. This study draws on a sample of approximately 4,000 students from 11 urban middle schools in Tennessee to address several gaps in the civic…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Classification, Youth Opportunities, Citizen Participation
Differences in the Civic Knowledge and Attitudes of Adolescents in the United States by Immigrant Status and Hispanic Background
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Torney-Purta, Judith; Barber, Carolyn; Wilkenfeld, Britt – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
This analysis aims to explore within one country (United States) whether there are differences in preparation for citizenship between students who are immigrant and those who are native-born and between students who come from Hispanic background and those who do not. This is a first step toward shaping further analysis of the civic education of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Immigrants, Democracy, Citizen Participation
Attention to Media and Trust in Media Sources: Analysis of Data from the IEA Civic Education Study
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Amadeo, Jo-Ann; Torney-Purta, Judith; Barber, Carolyn Henry – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2004
In this fact sheet, data is reported from the IEA Civic Education Study -- a two-phased study of 14- and 17-year olds' civic knowledge, attitudes and activities conducted in 29 countries in 1999 and 2000 with nationally representative samples of students. The information from this study is used to address three main points concerning the media and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Citizenship Education, Mass Media Effects