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Preece, Peter F. W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
The validity of various reliability-corrected procedures for adjusting for initial differences between groups in uncontrolled studies is established for subjects exhibiting linear fan-spread growth. The results are then extended to a nonlinear model of growth. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Covariance, Error of Measurement, Hypothesis Testing
Thompson, Bruce; Borrello, Gloria M. – 1987
Attitude measures frequently produce distributions of item scores that attenuate interitem correlations and thus also distort findings regarding the factor structure underlying the items. An actual data set involving 260 adult subjects' responses to 55 items on the Love Relationships Scale is employed to illustrate empirical methods for…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Covariance, Attitude Measures, Correlation
Werts, Charles E.; Linn, Robert L. – 1975
Forming a sequence covering the various aspects of the simplex model, four articles are presented here under the following titles: "A Simplex Model for Analyzing Academic Growth", "Analyzing Ratings With Correlated Intrajudge Measurement Errors", "The Correlation of States With Gain", and "The Reliability of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Analysis of Covariance, College Students