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Kapland, David – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This article presents an overview of quantitative methodologies for the study of stage-sequential development based on extensions of Markov chain modeling. Four methods are presented that exemplify the flexibility of this approach: the manifest Markov model, the latent Markov model, latent transition analysis, and the mixture latent Markov model.…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Research Methodology, Models, Individual Development
Liu, Xing; O'Connell, Ann A. – Online Submission, 2008
Childhood is the crucial period for early children's reading ability building. Former research (Hanson & Farrell, 1995) found that early reading experience had a positive and long-term effect on reading competence for high school seniors in the future. Therefore, it is of great importance for researchers to understand children's initial reading…
Descriptors: Relationship, Early Reading, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten