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Woolard, Katherine; Munira, Shirajum; Jesmin, Khaleda; Hruschka, Daniel – Field Methods, 2022
Social scientists have developed numerous asset-based wealth indices to assess and target socioeconomic inequalities globally. However, there are no systematic studies of the relative performance of these different measures as proxies for socioeconomic position. In this study, we compare how five asset-based wealth indices--the International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Fiscal Capacity, Predictor Variables
Darolia, Rajeev; Koedel, Cory – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2017
We use statewide administrative data from Missouri to examine the role of high schools in explaining students' initial college and major placements at 4-year public universities. To facilitate our investigation of postsecondary sorting, we develop a "preparation and persistence index" (PPI) for each university-by-major cell in the…
Descriptors: School Role, High Schools, Student Placement, Majors (Students)
Allen, Jeff; Ndum, Edwin; Mattern, Krista – ACT, Inc., 2017
We derived an index of high school academic rigor by optimizing the prediction of first-year college GPA based on high school courses taken, grades, and indicators of advanced coursework. Using a large data set (n~108,000) and nominal parameterization of high school course outcomes, the high school academic rigor (HSAR) index capitalizes on…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Difficulty Level, Academic Standards, College Freshmen
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Preacher, Kristopher J. – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
It is often of interest to estimate partial or semipartial correlation coefficients as indexes of the linear association between 2 variables after partialing one or both for the influence of covariates. Squaring these coefficients expresses the proportion of variance in 1 variable explained by the other variable after controlling for covariates.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Hypothesis Testing, Structural Equation Models, Indexes
Lance, Keith Curry; Cox, Marti A. – American Libraries, 2000
Offers a methodological critique of Thomas Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index as well as a response by Hennen. Discusses statistics; indexes; correlations; variables; weighting; and how public libraries should be assessed, and Hennen defends his work and suggests it should be called a scorecard rather than an index. (LRW)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Indexes
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Crouse, Richard J.; Sloyer, Clifford W. – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
In cases of trauma, medical indexes are used by paramedics to report the condition of the patient to the hospital. Presents a scenario in which students act as paramedics at the scene of an earthquake and use the index called capillary refill to report the severity of the trauma and predict probable survival. (MDH)
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Indexes, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Education
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Tyler, Ann A.; Williams, Mandy J.; Lewis, Kerry E. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
The consistency/variability of error substitution patterns may hold important implications for subgrouping children with speech disorders, as well as for relationships between learning and generalization patterns. There is a need to quantify and examine the range of consistency/variability within the speech disordered population as it relates to…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language), Outcomes of Treatment, Speech Evaluation