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Beyond 'Migrant Background': How to Select Relevant, Social Justice Oriented, and Feasible Social Categories in Educational Research
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Vietze, Jana; Schwarzenthal, Miriam; Moffitt, Ursula; Civitillo, Sauro – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Across continental Europe, educational research samples are often divided by 'migrant background', a binary variable criticized for masking participant heterogeneity and reinforcing exclusionary norms of belonging. This study endorses more meaningful, representative, and precise research by offering four guiding questions for selecting relevant,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Social Justice, Social Influences
Category Number Impacts Rule-Based "and" Information-Integration Category Learning: A Reassessment of Evidence for Dissociable Category-Learning Systems
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Stanton, Roger D.; Nosofsky, Robert M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Researchers have proposed that an explicit reasoning system is responsible for learning rule-based category structures and that a separate implicit, procedural-learning system is responsible for learning information-integration category structures. As evidence for this multiple-system hypothesis, researchers report a dissociation based on…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychological Studies, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes
The "p"-Median Model as a Tool for Clustering Psychological Data
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Kohn, Hans-Friedrich; Steinley, Douglas; Brusco, Michael J. – Psychological Methods, 2010
The "p"-median clustering model represents a combinatorial approach to partition data sets into disjoint, nonhierarchical groups. Object classes are constructed around "exemplars", that is, manifest objects in the data set, with the remaining instances assigned to their closest cluster centers. Effective, state-of-the-art implementations of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Psychological Studies, Data Analysis, Research Methodology
Beyond Constant Comparison Qualitative Data Analysis: Using NVivo
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Leech, Nancy L.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
The purposes of this paper are to outline seven types of qualitative data analysis techniques, to present step-by-step guidance for conducting these analyses via a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software program (i.e., NVivo9), and to present screenshots of the data analysis process. Specifically, the following seven analyses are…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, School Psychology, Data Analysis
A Comment on the Role of Clustering in Free Recall
Thompson, Charles P.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results indicated that Ss demonstrating a high degree of clustering recalled more than Ss demonstrating a low degree of clustering. (Authors)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Data Analysis, Psychological Studies
Methodological Article: A Brief Taxometrics Primer
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Beauchaine, Theodore P. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
Taxometric procedures provide an empirical means of determining which psychiatric disorders are typologically distinct from normal behavioral functioning. Although most disorders reflect extremes along continuously distributed behavioral traits, identifying those that are discrete has important implications for accurate diagnosis, effective…
Descriptors: Identification, Psychopathology, Adolescents, Etiology
Reflections of Replications and the Experimenter Bias Effect
Levy, Leon H. – J Consult Clin Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Experimenter Characteristics
Assessment Research in Correctional Settings; Methodological Issues and Practical Problems.
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Megargee, Edwin I. – Psychological Assessment, 1995
The methodological and practical problems that are especially common in or unique to assessment research in correctional settings are discussed. The distinctive culture of correctional institutions and the complications caused by governing bodies contribute to the particular problems encountered in collecting and analyzing data. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Correctional Institutions, Data Analysis, Data Collection
The Effects of Stimulus Attributes Upon Latency of Word Recognition
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Richardson, John T. E. – British Journal of Psychology, 1976
Investigates the properties affecting the time taken to read individual words and to discriminate between words and non-words. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Classification, Componential Analysis, Data Analysis, Decoding (Reading)