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Liang, Jian-Hua; Heckman, Paul E.; Abedi, Jamal – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2018
This study examines the power of cognitive and noncognitive variables to predict students' performance in algebra. We investigated students' prior year's assessment scores and demographic characteristics to predict eighth-grade algebra scores. Using California statewide assessment data, we explored predictive factors in three regression models.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 8, Predictor Variables, Prior Learning
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Abedi, Jamal; Baker, Eva L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1995
Results from a performance assessment in which 68 high school students wrote essays support the use of latent variable modeling for estimating reliability, concurrent validity, and generalizability of a scoring rubric. The latent variable modeling approach overcomes the limitations of certain conventional statistical techniques in handling…
Descriptors: Criteria, Essays, Estimation (Mathematics), Generalizability Theory