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Home Resources as a Measure of Socio-Economic Status in Ghana
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Bofah, Emmanuel Adu-tutu; Hannula, Markku S. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
In large scale international assessment studies, questionnaires are typical used to query students' home possessions. Composite scores are computed from responses to the home resource questionnaires and are used as a measure of family socioeconomic background in achievement comparison or for statistical control. This paper deals with profiling the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, International Assessment, Scores
Identification of Children with Language Impairment: Investigating the Classification Accuracy of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, Level III
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Skarakis-Doyle, Elizabeth; Campbell, Wenonah; Dempsey, Lynn – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: This study tested the accuracy with which the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, Level III (CDI-III), a parent report measure of language ability, discriminated children with language impairment from those developing language typically. Method: Parents of 58 children, 49 with typically developing language (age 30 to 42…
Descriptors: Intervals, Language Impairments, Vocabulary, Discriminant Analysis
Determining Language Dominance in English-Mandarin Bilinguals: Development of a Self-Report Classification Tool for Clinical Use
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Lim, Valerie P. C.; Rickard Liow, Susan J.; Lincoln, Michelle; Chan, Yiong, Huak; Onslow, Mark – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
In multilingual Asian communities, determining language dominance for clinical assessment and intervention is often complex. The aim of this study was to develop a self-report classification tool for identifying the dominant language in English-Mandarin bilinguals. Participants (N = 168) completed a questionnaire on language history and…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Discriminant Analysis, Classification, Mandarin Chinese
A Discriminant Analysis of the Factors Associated with the Career Plans of String Music Educators
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Russell, Joshua A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore factors that may affect string teachers' career decisions. Six hundred string teachers were mailed a questionnaire designed to elicit responses about multiple factors and projected career plans in 1 year and in 5 years, and 304 teachers responded. The majority of teachers planned to remain in their…
Descriptors: Music Education, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Music Teachers
The Use of Discriminant Analysis to Select Content-Bearing Words.
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Dillon, Martin; Federhart, Peggy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982
Presents a method for identifying indexing terms from word stems, using discriminant analysis to distinguish terms which refer to topics from terms which do not refer to topics. A test of the method on the Harris Survey Question database is discussed. Included are 11 data tables and a reference list. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Information Retrieval
Toward an Approach to Program Evaluation in Teacher Education.
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Harste, Jerome C. – 1972
A career typology is proposed as a method to evaluate teacher education programs. To test the viability of this approach, University of Minnesota graduate students majoring in elementary education were studied in terms of their declared career orientations. This investigation indicated that the graduate program in elementary education was oriented…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Educational Programs