The study aimed to find out the impact of tertiary education on development of moderate Islamic society in Pakistan. The population of the study constituted of all the teachers engaged on teaching and all the students studying in the colleges. The study was delimited to the area of public sector college education. Cluster sampling technique was…

The problem investigated in this research study relates to the referral rate for special education evaluations between students of teachers who were exposed to the professional development and resources associated with the federally funded Reading First program and students of teachers who were not exposed to the program. The purpose of this study…

We examine the roles of neighborhood characteristics in the development of the aggressive behavior of 1,409 urban boys and girls between the first and seventh grades. The multilevel, longitudinal growth analyses find strong neighborhood effects in all models, while controlling for individual-level variables. Results indicated that the effects of…

Two generalizations of canonical correlational analysis are developed. The partial, part, and bipartial canonical correlation coefficients are shown to be special cases of the generalization. Illustrative examples are provided. (Author/JKS)

Both predictive discriminant analysis (PDA) and descriptive discriminant analysis (DDA) require a decision to pool group covariance matrices, or alternatively, to retain separate group covariance matrices when the group covariance matrices are too dissimilar to pool. Pooling the group covariance matrices involves the so-called "linear"…

It is shown that a weaker generalized inverse (Rao's g-inverse; Graybill's c-inverse) can be used in place of the Moore-Penrose generalized inverse to obtain multiple and canonical correlations from singular covariance matrices. Mathematical derivations are provided. (Author/JKS)

Presents a latent class extension of signal detection theory and illustrates applications of this approach. Introduces an extension of the signal detection model to more than two latent classes, with a simple restriction on the detection parameters and provides some sample programs to fit the models. (SLD)

Proposed some modified asymptotic distribution free (ADF) test statistics with distributions that are approximated by F distributions. Empirical studies show that the distributions of the new statistics are more closely approximated by F distributions than are the original ADF statistics when referred to chi-square distributions. (SLD)

Proposes a special rotation procedure for the exploratory dynamic factor model for stationary multivariate time series. The rotation procedure applies separately to each univariate component series of a q-variate latent factor series and transforms such a component, initially represented as white noise, into a univariate moving-average.…

Extends the Triadic Relations Model of C. Bond, E. Horn, and D. Kenny (1997) to analyze the covariances between triadic variables. Specifies a bivariate version of the model and presents estimation methods that can be used to decompose the covariance between 2 triadic variables into 33 covariance components. (Author/SLD)

Seventy-two Israeli emerging adults were interviewed for descriptions of themselves and accounts of their personal, social, and professional dreams, current life status, romantic relationships, and relationships with their parents. Interviews were transcribed and rated on scales assessing self-processes, attainment of professional and romantic…

This article describes how Chernoff faces can be drawn in Microsoft Excel.

The authors applied I-States as Objects Analysis (ISOA), a recently proposed person-oriented analytic approach, to the study of temperament development in 921 Norwegian children from a population-based sample. A 5-profile classification based on cluster analysis of standardized mother reports of activity, sociability, emotionality, and shyness at…

Rosenthal and Rubin introduced a general effect size index, r[subscript equivalent], for use in meta-analyses of two-group experiments; it employs p values from reports of the original studies to determine an equivalent t test and the corresponding point-biserial correlation coefficient. The present investigation used Monte Carlo-simulated…

This exploratory study measured the efficacy of an emergent literacy intervention program designed to support preschool children who have been identified as having specific language impairments. Specifically, the study compares two intervention approaches--an experimental emergent literacy intervention and a traditional intervention based on…