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Isiordia, Marilu; Ferrer, Emilio – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
A first-order latent growth model assesses change in an unobserved construct from a single score and is commonly used across different domains of educational research. However, examining change using a set of multiple response scores (e.g., scale items) affords researchers several methodological benefits not possible when using a single score. A…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Statistical Analysis, Models, Longitudinal Studies
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Kim, Hye Jeong; Pedersen, Susan – Educational Psychology, 2010
Recently, the importance of ill-structured problem-solving in real-world contexts has become a focus of educational research. Particularly, the hypothesis-development process has been examined as one of the keys to developing a high-quality solution in a problem context. The authors of this study examined predictive relations between young…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Research, Structural Equation Models, Adolescents
Taylor, Erika D. – 1999
This study examines two ideas that have emerged from research involving African American adolescents with respect to academic achievement: (1) the notion that African American students do not support their peers' academic endeavors; and (2) the notion that African Americans do poorly in school as a result of alienation in the classroom, and may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Alienation, Black Students
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Kim, Heeja; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2002
This paper describes structural equation modeling (SEM) and possibilities for using SEM to address problems specific to workforce education and career development. A sample of adolescents identified as work-bound (i.e., transition directly from secondary school to work) from the National Education Longitudinal Study 1988-1996 database (NELS:…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Career Education, Career Development, Technical Education