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Direct linkAwang, Halimah; Ismail, Noor Azina – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2006
This paper examines the effects of teaching and learning strategies on mathematics achievement among eighth grade students in Malaysia using data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1999. Factor analysis is used to separate the twenty-five teaching and learning practices into three main factors namely, instructional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Regression (Statistics)
Peer reviewedBarnes, Douglas; Shemilt, Denis – Educational Review, 1974
This study was designed to find how teachers differed in their tacit assumptions about classroom communication. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Diagrams, Factor Analysis, Questionnaires
Northrop, Lois C. – 1977
The complex and multi-faceted nature of the cognitive process of reasoning is discussed. The factor-analytic history of the isolation and definition of the three most important currently recognized reasoning factors (general reasoning, induction, and logical or deductive reasoning) is traced through the psychometric literature, and the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Deduction
Sherman, Charles R. – 1978
An exploratory factor analysis is used in the study of institutional preferences in medical student admissions. Sources and mathematical derivations of 58 institutional variables are presented. Most of the measures describe attributes related to the admission process. The remainder were selected to represent other dimensions along which medical…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Choice, Componential Analysis, Factor Analysis
Rosenshine, Barak Victor – 1978
The author notes a shift in educational research from teachers' behaviors as related to student achievement gains to other factors affecting such gain. A review of studies published since 1973, and an exploration of some of their concepts, is undertaken. Major changes are summarized as (1) increased focus on student variables, (2) a convergance of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1977
Discriminant function analyses involving two vocational interest inventories (ACT Interest Inventory and Lunneborg's Vocational Interest Inventory) to differentiate majors of college graduates supported the definition of three dimensions: Business Contact vs. Science, Business Detail vs. Arts, and Service vs. Technical. This common structure…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Graduates, Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedMichael, William B.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
The scale yielded three major dimensions that were essentially invariant across the three samples: physical appearance, socially unacceptable (bad) behavior, and academic or school status. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, High School Students
Murray, C. Kenneth – J Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Experience, Educational Planning, Factor Analysis
Austin, Bruce A. – 1982
A questionnaire was designed for a study assessing both the importance of 28 variables in movie attendance and the importance of movie-going as a leisure-time activity. Respondents were 130 ninth and twelfth grade students. The 28 variables were broadly organized into eight categories: movie production personnel, production elements, advertising,…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Factor Analysis, Films, High School Students
Williams, Trevor – 1981
Following several "quality of life" models and a model of schooling, researchers developed a "quality of school life" model with four dimensions, including general satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and domains specific to education. The domains relate to students' personal experiences regarding particular school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Educational Environment, Factor Analysis
Pearson, Judy C. – 1980
A study was undertaken to determine the relationship between assertiveness and communication apprehension by examining common factors that exist between the items on the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule and the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension. The two instruments were administered to students at a large midwestern university. Responses…
Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems
Reckase, Mark D. – 1981
This report summarizes the research findings of a four year contract investigating the applicability of item response theory and tailored testing to criterion-referenced measurement. Six major areas were studied on the project: (1) techniques for forming unidimensional item sets; (2) techniques for calibrating items; (3) item parameter linking…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making
State Univ. of New York, Brooklyn. Downstate Medical Center. – 1978
The research objective of the study involving 240 low socioeconomic status mothers was validation of the prevailing multifactor theory of child abuse and neglect which states that maltreatment results from personality characteristics of parents, children "at risk" due to preexistent deviancy, and environmental stress. Ss were measured on 12…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Etiology, Exceptional Child Research
Benton, Camille L. – 1979
The semantic differential ratings of ten typefaces given by a group of 24 subjects were factor analyzed to discover what connotative meanings laypeople applied to typefaces and how these meanings compared with those of professional typographers. The typefaces, five from general categories and five from novelty categories of display typefaces, were…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Graphic Arts, Journalism, Layout (Publications)
Liechty, Thornton A. – 1979
One area of home-school-community relations research lies in the study of unique patterns of educational participation by community residents. This study was designed to investigate patterns of citizen participation in education. A questionnaire was developed and a random sample of 250 registered voters was selected from a county school district…
Descriptors: Activities, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Demography
