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Six, Bernd; Eckes, Thomas – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1991
Introduces a three-stage experimental design for analyzing categories used by individuals in conceptualizing male and female stereotypes. Three samples of German university students enumerated and sorted a list of familiar male and female characteristics. Distinct but complex clusters of traits emerged for both men and women, the most important…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, College Students, Foreign Countries, Multidimensional Scaling
Hill, David J. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
As part of a research program investigating the interlanguage lexicon of Kenyan learners of English, based on the lexical field of locomotion, a card sorting task was used to produce raw similarity measure data. This was subjected to cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling (MDS). This paper suggests that cluster analysis/MDS of perceived…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage
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Braithwaite, John B.; Law, Henry G. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1978
An analysis of self-report delinquency data using four non-metric procedures for structural analysis revealed support for the existence of a general delinquency factor. However, offenses of low seriousness and victimless offenses (drinking and drug-taking items) were only weakly related to this general factor. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Delinquency, Delinquent Behavior, Factor Analysis
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Hansen, Klaus-Henning – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1999
Applied qualitative methods to assess students' interest in science to responses of 2,118 German students in grades 5 through 7 to items measuring interest. Each method (additive cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, and latent class analysis) is considered qualitative because it supports a focus on the structure of interest. Each approach…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students