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Ben Stenhaug; Ben Domingue – Grantee Submission, 2022
The fit of an item response model is typically conceptualized as whether a given model could have generated the data. We advocate for an alternative view of fit, "predictive fit", based on the model's ability to predict new data. We derive two predictive fit metrics for item response models that assess how well an estimated item response…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Prediction, Models
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Morris, Darrell; Pennell, Ashley M.; Perney, Jan; Trathen, Woodrow – Reading Psychology, 2018
This study compared reading rate to reading fluency (as measured by a rating scale). After listening to first graders read short passages, we assigned an overall fluency rating (low, average, or high) to each reading. We then used predictive discriminant analyses to determine which of five measures--accuracy, rate (objective); accuracy, phrasing,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Prediction, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Schlack, Robert; Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike; Petermann, Franz – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
This study investigates self-rated mental health in terms of psychological problems, protective factors and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a nationally representative sample of adolescents (n = 6813) aged 11-17 involved in violence with varying frequency. Using MANCOVA and ANCOVA, youth with single and multiple histories of violent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Quality of Life, Hyperactivity, Violence
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Huang, Chiungjung – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
This study examined the discriminant and criterion-related validity of achievement goals in predicting academic achievement. Analysis of 151 studies yielded 172 independent samples (N = 52,986) with correlations among achievement goals and between achievement goals and academic achievement. The discriminant validity of achievement goals in the 2-,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Predictive Validity, Goal Orientation
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Chen, Yi-Hsin; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D.; Chang, George H. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2011
In this article, the authors investigated the relations of students' perceptions of teachers' oral feedback with teacher expectancies and student self-concept. A sample of 1,598 Taiwanese children in Grades 3 to 6 completed measures of student perceptions of teacher oral feedback and school self-concept. Homeroom teachers identified students for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Discriminant Analysis
Gregg, William Sherman – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Dropping out of school is associated with a wide array of negative outcomes and the extraordinarily high United States dropout rate has brought the issue to the forefront of American education. This study investigated normally collected middle school data from a suburban Colorado school district to determine the predictive value toward students…
Descriptors: Student Records, Middle School Students, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
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Newton, Jocelyn H.; McIntosh, David E.; Dixon, Felicia; Williams, Tasha; Youman, Elizabeth – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
This study examined the accuracy of three shortened measures of intelligence: the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability, Third Edition Brief Intellectual Ability (WJ III COG BIA) score; the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition Abbreviated IQ (SB5 ABIQ); and the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test IQ Composite (K-BIT) in predicting…
Descriptors: Gifted, Children, Comparative Analysis, Prediction
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Gotschi, Elisabeth; Vogel, Stefan; Lindenthal, Thomas; Larcher, Manuela – Journal of Environmental Education, 2010
In 2005 a survey was used to investigate social norms and attitudes of Viennese high school students (14-20 years, n = 340) toward organic products. Young people, who already participate in household decisions and consume organic products, have not yet been recognized sufficiently in research. The Theory of Reasoned Action and discriminant…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, High School Students, Surveys, Foreign Countries
Meshbane, Alice; Morris, John D. – 1997
A method for comparing the cross-validated classification accuracy of Fisher's linear classification functions (FLCFs) and the least absolute deviation is presented under varying data conditions for the two-group classification problem. With this method, separate-group as well as total-sample proportions of current classifications can be compared…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Correlation
Huberty, Carl J; And Others – 1983
Three methods of transforming unordered categorical response variables are described. One is a method using dummy binary variables. The second method analyzes all categorical variables simultaneously and is based on an eigenanalysis of frequency patterns scaled relative to within-groups variance, jointly developed by J. E. Overall and J. A.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis
Carroll, John B. – 1971
The subjective magnitude estimation (SME) procedure was used to obtain estimates of relative word frequency from two adult groups (15 lexicographers, 13 other adults) for 60 words ranging widely in objective frequency. Lexicographers rendered more reliable estimates, and their averaged data correlated more highly with objective log frequency than…
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis, Individual Differences
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Hale, Robert L.; Dougherty, Donna – Journal of School Psychology, 1988
Compared the efficacy of two methods of cluster analysis, the unweighted pair-groups method using arithmetic averages (UPGMA) and Ward's method, for students grouped on intelligence, achievement, and social adjustment by both clustering methods. Found UPGMA more efficacious based on output, on cophenetic correlation coefficients generated by each…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Classification, Cluster Analysis