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Gordon, Rachel A.; Fujimoto, Ken; Kaestner, Robert; Korenman, Sanders; Abner, Kristin – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) is widely used to associate child care quality with child development, but its validity for this purpose is not well established. We examined the validity of the ECERS-R using the multidimensional Rasch partial credit model (PCM), factor analyses, and regression analyses with data from…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Relationship, Child Care
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Hough, Kimberly L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
This quantitative survey study was designed to determine whether superintendent accountability behaviors or agreement about accountability behaviors between superintendents and their subordinate central office administrators predicted district student achievement. Hierarchical multiple regression and analyses of covariance were employed,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Statistical Analysis, Superintendents, Prediction
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Crawford, John R.; Garthwaite, Paul H.; Denham, Annie K.; Chelune, Gordon J. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Regression equations have many useful roles in psychological assessment. Moreover, there is a large reservoir of published data that could be used to build regression equations; these equations could then be employed to test a wide variety of hypotheses concerning the functioning of individual cases. This resource is currently underused because…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Equations (Mathematics), Psychological Evaluation, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Strang, Kenneth David – Journal of Education for Business, 2014
An experiment was developed to determine if cognitive learning strategies improved standardized university business exam results. Previous studies revealed that factors such as prior ability, age, gender, and culture predicted a student's Major Field Test in Business (MFTB) score better than course content. The experiment control consisted of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies, Business Administration Education, Scores
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Zhu, Zheng; Chen, Peijie; Zhuang, Jie – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and cross-validate an equation based on ActiGraph accelerometer GT3X output to predict children and youth's energy expenditure (EE) of physical activity (PA). Method: Participants were 367 Chinese children and youth (179 boys and 188 girls, aged 9 to 17 years old) who wore 1 ActiGraph GT3X…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Children
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Lambert, Lisa Schurer – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
The reciprocal exchange of employees' work for pay that is central to employment relationships is viewed here through the lens of the psychological contract. A psychological contract involves promised inducements, promised contributions, delivered inducements, and delivered contributions: How an employee cognitively integrates these 4 elements is…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Psychology, Employees, Social Exchange Theory
Brown, Tamala P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many studies have been conducted to address childhood behavior problems, but much remains unknown regarding the causes and factors that affect internalizing and externalizing problems in children. The purpose of the current research study was to examine the relationships between children's internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and (a)…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Behavior Problems, Children, Family Structure
Golden, Thomas Courtenay – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The college choice requires the adolescent to gather and synthesize vast amounts of information, reconcile sometimes competing personal and familial goals, and manage a range of emotions. This decision process represents a major developmental crisis with which the adolescent must cope. Scholars have noted that psychological strain and heightened…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, College Choice, Prediction, Personality