The purpose of this study was to examine how perceptions of a chilly climate differ between students in traditionally female-dominated majors (nursing and education) versus traditionally male-dominated majors (information technology and engineering), and how these perceptions relate to students' intentions to persist or pursue higher education in…

A small multivariate data set is used to illustrate the usefulness of structure coefficients when interpreting results of educational experiments. Data are analyzed using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), and results are interpreted in three different ways to determine the contribution of individual variables to prediction: (1) using…

Commonality analysis may be used as an adjunct to general linear methods as a means of determining the degree of predictive ability shared by two or more independent variables. For each independent variable, commonality analysis indicates how much of the variance of the dependent variable is unique to the predictor and how much of the predictor's…

Previous research using various measures of teacher quality has largely failed to investigate the relationships among such assessment measures using multivariate procedures. Multivariate investigations are essential in studies of teacher competence because these methods view various competency variables in the larger contexts to which researchers…