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Bainter, Sierra A.; Howard, Andrea L. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Several multivariate models are motivated to answer similar developmental questions regarding within-person (intraindividual) effects between 2 or more constructs over time, yet the within-person effects tested by each model are distinct. In this article, the authors clarify the types of within-person inferences that can be made from each model.…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Inferences, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Fusaro, Maria; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Much recent evidence shows that preschoolers are sensitive to the accuracy of an informant. Faced with two informants, one of whom names familiar objects accurately and the other inaccurately, preschoolers subsequently prefer to learn the names and functions of unfamiliar objects from the more accurate informant. This study examined the inference…
Descriptors: Evidence, Individual Differences, Human Body, Inferences
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Royer, James M.; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1996
Evaluated three test development procedures designed to measure different levels of domain expertise. Experts and novices in psychology and physics took tests generated by the procedures intended to measure ability to understand, draw inferences from, and recognize "big ideas" in technical text. Results were consistent with the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individual Differences, Inferences, Reading Comprehension