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Early Childhood General and Special Educators: An Examination of Similarities and Differences in Beliefs, Knowledge, and Practice
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Spear, Caitlin F.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Ottley, Jennifer R.; Justice, Laura M.; O'Connell, Ann A. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
In this study, we provide a contemporary examination of the similarities and differences between early childhood general educators (ECEs) and early childhood special educators (ECSEs) within a theoretically driven model that accounted for the associations of beliefs and knowledge with practice. We used structural equation modeling to examine the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers, Preschool Teachers
School Nurses' Professional Practice in the HPV Vaccine Decision-Making Process
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Rosen, Brittany L.; Ashwood, Daniel; Richardson, George B. – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
Because U.S. human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates remain low, we evaluated school nurses' knowledge, attitudes, perceptions of their role as opinion leaders, self-efficacy, intention, and professional practice regarding the HPV vaccine and determined if these variables influenced their professional practice concerning the HPV vaccine. We…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Immunization Programs, Decision Making, Knowledge Level
A Demonstration of a Systematic Item-Reduction Approach Using Structural Equation Modeling
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Larwin, Karen; Harvey, Milton – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2012
Establishing model parsimony is an important component of structural equation modeling (SEM). Unfortunately, little attention has been given to developing systematic procedures to accomplish this goal. To this end, the current study introduces an innovative application of the jackknife approach first presented in Rensvold and Cheung (1999). Unlike…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Measures (Individuals)