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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Wisenbaker, Joseph M.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Strauss, Gregory P.; Morris, Robin D. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
The goals of this study were to (a) develop an empirically based model regarding the development of fluent and automatic reading in the early elementary school years and (b) determine whether fluent text-reading skills provided benefits for reading comprehension beyond those accounted for by fluent word decoding. First-, second-, and third-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Fluency, Elementary Education, Reading Skills
Ceyhan, A. Aykut; Ceyhan, Esra – Online Submission, 2007
This research aims at examining the relationships among unethical computer usage behavior and the personality characteristics of locus of control, adjustment to social norms, antisocial tendency, and aggression on Turkish university students. The research was applied to 217 university students. Data were collected through Unethical Computer Using…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Ethics, Norms, Structural Equation Models
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Herrero, Juan; Gracia, Enrique – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
Social support from intimate and confiding relationships has received a great deal of attention; however, the study of the community as a relevant source of support has been comparatively lacking. In this article, we present a multidimensional measure of community support (Perceived Community Support Questionnaire, PCSQ). Through exploratory and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Predictive Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Vogt, Christina M.; Hocevar, Dennis; Hagedorn, Linda Serra – Journal of Higher Education, 2007
To resolve the dispute amongst several studies, this research investigated whether the new generation of women engineering majors, who have been better academically prepared and presumably instilled with confidence, still experience lower levels of achievement than male engineering students. This study was framed under Bandura's (1986) triadic…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Engineering Education, Majors (Students), College Students
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Sivo, Stephen A.; Pan, Cheng-Chang; Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie L. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Factors affecting the student use of a course management system in a web-enhanced course are investigated using the technology acceptance model. Represented in the present study is the second phase of the analysis, with a focus on the causal relationship of subjective norms to student attitudes towards WebCT and their effect on three dependent…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Structural Equation Models, Web Based Instruction
Jo, See-Heyon – 1995
The question of how to analyze unbalanced hierarchical data generated from structural equation models has been a common problem for researchers and analysts. Among difficulties plaguing statistical modeling are estimation bias due to measurement error and the estimation of the effects of the individual's hierarchical social milieu. This paper…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bayesian Statistics, Equations (Mathematics), Error of Measurement
Sireci, Stephen G.; Khaliq, Shameem Nyla – 2002
Many students in the United States who are required to take educational tests are not fully proficient in English. To address this problem, a state-mandated testing program created dual language English-Spanish versions of some of their tests. In this study, the psychometric properties of the English and dual language versions of a fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Item Bias, Language Proficiency, Limited English Speaking, Multidimensional Scaling
Ruban, Lilia; McCoach, D. Betsy; Reis, Sally M. – 2002
The aim of this study was to report the development and testing of a model explaining gender differences in the interrelationships among aptitude measures, high school mathematics and science preparation, college academic level, motivational and self-regulatory variables, and grade point average using structural equation modeling and multiple…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Abu-Hilal, Maher M. – 2002
A study tested predictions for I/E (internal external) frame of reference model and extended this model to include locus of control. A sample of upper elementary (n=181) and junior high (n=191) students in the United Arab Emirates participated in the study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses provided support to the external comparison…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Thorpe, Pamela K. – 2003
This study examined the relationship between school connectedness and academic achievement using structural equation modeling. Results for 1,758 seventh graders from a midwestern urban school system indicate that school-initiated connectedness has an indirect effect on student achievement through student peers desire to be connected to each other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Anderson, Ronald D. – Structural Equation Modeling, 1996
Goodness of fit indexes developed by R. P. McDonald (1989) and Satorra-Bentler scale correction methods (A. Satorra and P. M. Bentler, 1988) were studied. The Satorra-Bentler index is shown to have the least error under each distributional misspecification level when the model has correct structural specification. (SLD)
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
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McQuitty, Shaun – Structural Equation Modeling, 1997
LISREL 8 invokes a ridge option when maximum likelihood or generalized least squares are used to estimate a structural equation model with a nonpositive definite covariance or correlation matrix. Implications of the ridge option for model fit, parameter estimates, and standard errors are explored through two examples. (SLD)
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit, Least Squares Statistics
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Gonzalez-Pienda, Julio Antonio; Nunez, Jose Carlos; Gonzalez-Pumariega, Soledad; Alvarez, Luis; Roces, Cristina; Garcia, Marta – Journal of Experimental Education, 2002
Used the structural equation model approach to test a model hypothesizing the influence of parental involvement on students' academic aptitudes, self-concept, and causal attributions, as well as the influence of these variables on academic achievement. Results for 261 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years suggest that cognitive-affective variables are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aptitude
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Rosenberg, Morris; And Others – American Sociological Review, 1989
Explores the reciprocal relationships between self-esteem and the following three problems of youth: (1) juvenile delinquency; (2) poor school performance; and (3) psychological depression. Findings include the following: (1) low self-esteem fosters delinquency, which may enhance self-esteem; (2) school performance affects self-esteem; and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Causal Models, Delinquency
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Cooney, John B; Troyer, Rod – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Illustrates some of the analytic tools and conventions associated with the construction and evaluation of dynamic models of the processes underlying learning, memory, and development. Describes a study finding that children may exhibit slower disintegration of verbatim memory traces than adults due to interference; however, adults may be more…
Descriptors: Adults, Chaos Theory, Cognitive Development, Epistemology
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