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von Davier, Matthias – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
This report presents results on a parallel implementation of the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for multidimensional latent variable models. The developments presented here are based on code that parallelizes both the E step and the M step of the parallel-E parallel-M algorithm. Examples presented in this report include item response…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mathematics, Models, Statistical Analysis
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Lowe, Patricia A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
The psychometric properties of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale-Second Edition (RCMAS-2) were examined in a sample of 1,003 U.S. elementary and secondary students in Grades 2 to 12. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were performed comparing the five-factor (target) model consisting of three anxiety (Physiological Anxiety, Social…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Anxiety, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Sawilowsky, Shlomo S. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2002
Presents a quick distribution-free test that contributes evidence of construct validity from the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix. The procedure is carried by reducing the heterotrait-heteromethod and heterotrait-monomethod triangles and the validity and reliability diagonals into a matrix of four levels. The null hypothesis states that the values…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Psychometrics, Statistical Analysis
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Seo, Sojung – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
The purpose of this study was to propose a theoretical model that relates mothers' selection of child care type to each of the contexts of the proposed model, and then to test the model in a group of forty-seven mothers of young children (center care users, family day care users, or users in combination of the two) who were recruited in the…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Mothers, Child Care, Employed Women