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Klyukovski, Andrei A.; Medlock-Klyukovski, Amanda L. – Communication Education, 2016
This article presents research to delineate the construct of instructor strategic ambiguity (ISA) and develop a measure. The first study analyzed instructor uses of ambiguity, identified 18 strategies, and classified them into four categories. The second study developed an Instructor Strategic Ambiguity Measure (ISAM) for the college classroom.…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Teaching Styles, Educational Strategies, Cluster Grouping
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McQuitty, Louis L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
A method of analysis is developed which accounts for whatever variance is present in the responses to test items, additive, configural or the two combined. The method is applied to successive column matrices which report frequencies or endorsements by categories of subjects to answer alternative sets of test items. Approaches are included which…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cluster Grouping, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics
Gray, William M.; Hofmann, Richard J. – 1969
Most responses to educational and psychological test items may be represented in binary form. However, such dichotomously scored items present special problems when an analysis of correlational interrelationships among the items is attempted. Two general methods of analyzing binary data are proposed by Horst to partial out the effects of…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Analysis of Covariance, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
Hunter, John E.; Gerbing, David W. – 1979
Confirmatory factor analysis is presented as providing appropriate techniques for the analysis and evaluation of questionnaires and tests if the content of the measure can be identified as consisting of groups of items, with each group measuring only a single trait. This approach is contrasted with latent trait theory which assumes (and does not…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Measurement, Factor Analysis
Powers, Donald E. – 1977
Factor analyses of two forms of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test were undertaken to better understand the abilities affecting test performance. Results suggest that three global abilities--two verbal and one quantitative--are consistently tapped by the GRE Aptitude Test. Other less prominent dimensions--some of which appear to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Cluster Grouping, College Entrance Examinations
Sirotnik, Kenneth A. – 1979
This report contains accounts of studies, about scales to be used in the "A Study of Schooling" research project, undertaken to derive indices for constructs presumed to be measureable by composites of items. The report is introduced by a discussion on the rationale for selecting the research methodology used and an explanation of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Correlation