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Direct linkHumphry, Stephen M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2010
Discrimination has traditionally been parameterized for items but not other empirical factors. Consequently, if person factors affect discrimination they cause misfit. However, by explicitly formulating the relationship between discrimination and the unit of a metric, it is possible to parameterize discrimination for person groups. This article…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Models, Simulation, Reading Tests
Download full textMartin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been conducted every four years since 1995, with the most recent assessment in 2011. PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is an international assessment of reading…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Grade 4
Lewis, Andrew J.; White, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The study examined the role of defense mechanisms in homophobic attitudes of older male adolescents aged 17-18 years. A cross-sectional survey collected data from final year high school students (N = 86) attending an all male school in a regional centre in Victoria, Australia. The school was identified by teachers as having a problematic culture…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Discriminant Analysis, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality
Peer reviewedField, T. W.; And Others – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Discriminant Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedEntrekin, L. V.; Everett, J. E. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1981
Questionnaires administered to all 4,128 of the teaching staff at nine institutions of higher education in Australia and New Zealand received a 46 percent response rate. Significant differences between the work-related attitudes of staff at colleges and those at universities are attributed to institutional culture rather than demographic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Demography, Differences, Discriminant Analysis
Peer reviewedYu, Anita Lai Chun; And Others – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1996
The Lifestyle Satisfaction Scale (LSS) has been found among American samples to be influenced by types of accommodation (representing variations in level of lifestyle restriction). This study of 46 adults with mental retardation in Australia supported the discriminate validity of the LSS, and identified ways in which location and other factors…
Descriptors: Adults, Discriminant Analysis, Foreign Countries, Independent Living
Schrom, Linda K. – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the influence of family background and attitudinal factors on occupational aspirations of Year 9 students in Victoria, Australia. A survey was made of all Victorian Year 9 students and comparisons were made between groups of students who aspired to different occupations. Discriminant function analyses were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Discriminant Analysis
Ng, Chi-Hung – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2004
Most of the research on motivation in education often uses measures taken outside the context of students' actual learning activities. This paper, however, maintains that students' motivation and learning are situated. Using a diary technique, this study explored how a class of high-achieving students in an Australian state high school (N = 34)…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Student Motivation
Poole, Millicent E.; Low, B. C. – 1981
The purpose of this study was to examine the major determinants of the "staying" and "leaving" process for samples of Melbourne (Australia) male and female adolescents. Sixty attitudinal statements were obtained from 796 adolescents and factor analysed. The subset of independent variables, together with a set of personality and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Research
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W.; Gouvernet, Paul J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
The construct validities of the Self Description Questionnaire I, the Perceived Social Competence Scale, and the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control were assessed, using 508 seventh through ninth graders in Sydney (Australia). Factor analysis, multitrait-multimethod analyses, and patterns of correlations with additional…
Descriptors: Children, Construct Validity, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis
