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Collin, V. Terri; Violato, Claudio; Hecker, Kent – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
To develop and test a latent variable path model of general achievement, aptitude for medicine and competence in medicine employing data from the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), pre-medical undergraduate grade point average (UGPA) and demographic characteristics for competence in pre-clinical and measures of competence (United States…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Structural Equation Models, Testing, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Hau, Kit-Tai; Wen, Zhonglin – Structural Equation Modeling, 2004
Goodness-of-fit (GOF) indexes provide "rules of thumb"?recommended cutoff values for assessing fit in structural equation modeling. Hu and Bentler (1999) proposed a more rigorous approach to evaluating decision rules based on GOF indexes and, on this basis, proposed new and more stringent cutoff values for many indexes. This article discusses…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Structural Equation Models, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research