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Dagenais, Paul A.; Brown, Gidget R.; Moore, Robert E. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
Sentences recorded by four speakers with dysarthria and two control speakers were presented to listeners at three different rates: habitual, a 30% slower rate and a 30% higher rate. Rate changes were made by digitally manipulating the habitual sentences. Thirty young normal adult listeners rated the sentences for intelligibility (per cent correct…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Impairments, Articulation Impairments, Auditory Stimuli
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Mills, Jamie, D.; Olejnik, Stephen, F.; Marcoulides, George, A. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2005
The effectiveness of the Tabu variable selection algorithm, to identify predictor variables related to a criterion variable, is compared with the stepwise variable selection method and the all possible regression approach. Considering results obtained from previous research, Tabu is more successful in identifying relevant variables than the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Multiple Regression Analysis, Behavioral Science Research, Evaluation Criteria
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DeSarbo, Wayne S.; Lehmann, Donald R.; Hollman, Frances Galliano – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2004
Preference structures that underline a survey or experimental responses may systematically vary during the administration of such measurement. Maturation, learning, fatigue, and response strategy shifts may all affect the sequential elicitation of respondent preferences at different points in the survey or experiment. The consequence of this…
Descriptors: Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Response Style (Tests), Evaluation Methods, Responses
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Cavanaugh, Joseph K. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2006
Purpose: This study investigates how the increased use of part-time and nontenure-track instructors may result in grade inflation. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses ten years of registrar data at a Midwest State (USA) institution to perform a multiple regression grade analysis. Findings: Evidence is found that part-time and…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Multiple Regression Analysis, Part Time Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Kelly, William E. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2005
This study explored the relationship between vocational interests and noctcaelador, defined as strong interest in, and psychological attachment to, the night sky. University students (N = 134) completed the Vocational Preference Inventory (Form C) and the Noctcaelador Inventory. The results indicated that students scoring higher on noctcaelador…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Astronomy, Space Sciences, Interest Inventories
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van Leeuwen, Karla; de Fruyt, Filip; Mervielde, Ivan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study addresses the utility of the resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality prototypes for predicting children's and adolescents' problem behaviour in a longitudinal general population sample (N = 491). Both parents and one child participated in the study at two measurement occasions separated by a 3-year interval. The major…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Personality, Longitudinal Studies
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Garner, Pamela W.; Curenton, Stephanie M.; Taylor, Kelli – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Two studies investigated the influence of age, language, and family background on the development of preschoolers' social cognitive skills. Study 1 examined variability in economically disadvantaged preschoolers' understanding of fantasy and evaluated the relation of age and language to children's skill in this area. Children were shown drawings…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Economically Disadvantaged, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence
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Yaroch, Amy L.; Reynolds, Kim D.; Buller, David B.; Maloy, Julie A.; Geno, Cristy R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2006
This article describes a validity study conducted among middle school students comparing self-reported sun safety behaviors from a diary with readings from ultraviolet (UV) monitors worn on different body sites. The UV monitors are stickers with panels that turn increasingly darker shades of blue in the presence of increasing amounts of UV light.…
Descriptors: Safety, Cancer, Validity, Clothing
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Spear-Swerling, Louise; Brucker, Pamela Owen – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2006
This study focused on teacher-education students taking a special-education language-arts course in which information about English word structure was taught. The relationship between students' component reading-related abilities and their performance on three measures of word-structure knowledge, before and after course instruction about word…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Reading Ability, Reading Rate
Koc, Mustafa; Ferneding, Karen Ann – Online Submission, 2007
This paper draws on a part of the doctoral research study that investigates the potential impacts of Internet cafe use on Turkish college students' social capital. In this study, Internet cafe usage was portrayed by the amount of time spent and the frequency of online activities engaged at the cafes. Social capital, on the other hand, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Dining Facilities, Influences
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Jensen, Peter S.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Abikoff, Howard B.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Pelham, William E.; Wells, Karen C.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Hoza, Betsy; March, John S.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Severe, Joanne B.; Wigal, Timothy; Gibbons, Robert D.; Hur, Kwan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: In the intent-to-treat analysis of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA), the effects of medication management (MedMgt), behavior therapy (Beh), their combination (Comb), and usual community care (CC) differed at 14 and 24 months due to superiority of treatments that used the MTA medication algorithm (Comb+MedMgt)…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Behavior Modification, Psychopathology, Therapy
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Lee, Chun-Hsiung; Yeh, Dowming; Kung, Regina J.; Hsu, Chin-Shan – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
This study mainly investigates the factors affecting the learning effects in a blended e-Learning course for Mathematics. The research targets of this study are 48 junior high school students. After they had received traditional lessons in class as well as the accompanied e-Learning lessons, the influences of their learning portfolios and learning…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Multiple Regression Analysis, Data Analysis, Gender Differences
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Nir, Adam – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2007
The difficulty in education to determine causality between means and ends brings various issues and variables to the discussion about the antecedents of school effectiveness. Although teachers' level of professional development is clearly among the factors influencing student outcomes, little is known about the extent to which teachers connect…
Descriptors: School Based Management, School Effectiveness, Multiple Regression Analysis, Professional Development
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Perrone, Kristin M.; Webb, L. Kay; Jackson, Z. Vance – Career Development Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parental attachment and satisfaction with work and family roles, as well as the relationship of these variables to life satisfaction. Results from a multiple regression analysis indicated that satisfaction with work and marriage, but not parenting satisfaction or parental…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Multiple Regression Analysis, Life Satisfaction, Attachment Behavior
Shin, Tacksoo – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2007
This study introduces three growth modeling techniques: latent growth modeling (LGM), hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), and longitudinal profile analysis via multidimensional scaling (LPAMS). It compares the multilevel growth parameter estimates and potential predictor effects obtained using LGM, HLM, and LPAMS. The purpose of this multilevel…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Academic Achievement, Structural Equation Models, Causal Models
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