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Accuracy and consistency in discovering dimensionality by correlation constraint analysis and common factor analysis
(2009)An important application of multivariate analysis is the estimation of the underlying dimensions of an instrument or set of variables. Estimation of dimensions is often pursued with the objective of finding the single ... -
Achievement Goal Orientations in Physical Rehabilitation
(2005-12-01)Goals are used extensively in physical rehabilitation medicine to measure success. However, the goal construct has been given very little attention in research as compared to the domains of education and sport. Educational ... -
Adaptation of Indochinese Refugee Unaccompanied Minors to the United States: Depression; Americanization; Academic Achievement
(1986)Many Indochinese unaccompanied adolescents have been resettled in the United States without parents. Their recent immigration and adolescent life stage-both potential stressors--may render them vulnerable to ... -
Addiction Beliefs of Treatment Providers: Factors Explaining Variance
(1993)This study investigated factors accounting for variance in beliefs among addiction-treatment providers regarding the etiology of addiction (N=295). A survey was mailed to members of three national treatment provider o ... -
Adult Basic Education Students' Perceptions of Personal/Social Costs and Benefits
(2005-05-23)ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: ADULT BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF PERSONAL/SOCIAL COSTS AND BENEFITS Joanne L. Gartner, Candidate for Doctoral Degree, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor ... -
Adult Readers' Calibration of Word Learning
(2011)The current study examined undergraduates' metacognitive processes during word learning, a crucial component of building representations of key concepts from text. Noticing the need to construct meaning for unknown words ... -
Age related changes in social reasoning regarding parental domestic roles
(2007-05-03)The present study investigated age related changes in individuals' understanding of the parental role of caretaker from a social reasoning perspective. The methodology involved administering surveys to children, adolescents, ... -
Antecedents of infant-sibling interaction in the strange situation
(1987)The purpose of this study was to examine infant-sibling behavior in a modified version of the strange situation. Thirty-five mother-older sibling-infant triads were recruited for participation in this study. The sibling ... -
Applications of Dweck's Model of Implicit Theories to Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Emotional Experiences
(2012)The current study explored Dweck's (1999; Dweck & Leggett, 1988) model of implicit theories in the context of teaching in order to establish its usefulness for describing teachers' beliefs about students' ability and social ... -
Assessing Fit of Latent Class Models to Complex Survey Data: Implications For Drug Use Research
(2003-11-17)Simple random sampling is an assumption when using fit statistics to fit latent class (LC) models to data. However, LC models are often fit to datasets collected through complex survey sampling methods that may result in ... -
The Association Between Parental Executive Function and Children’s Language Skills at 18 Months
(2021)Executive function (EF) is thought to be particularly important for parenting (Crandall et al., 2015). Studies have shown that maternal EF is related to parenting quality and children’s social and cognitive outcomes ... -
The Association of Student Questioning with Reading Comprehension
(2003-12-05)In the field of reading comprehension, student-generated questions have been investigated within instructional contexts for elementary, middle school, high school, and college students. Although findings from instructional ... -
The Associations of Autonomy Support and Conceptual Press with Engaged Reading and Conceptual Learning from Text
(2004-11-24)This study examined the associations of autonomy support and conceptual press, with reading engagement and conceptual learning from text. When students perceive their teacher to be supporting autonomy, it means that student ... -
At the Crossroads of Epistemology and Motivation: Modeling the Relations between Students' Domain-Specific Epistemological Beliefs, Achievement Motivation, and Task Performance
(2003-11-25)Within the educational literature, students' epistemological beliefs (i.e., beliefs about the nature of knowledge) have been examined in relation to a variety of cognitive learning outcomes (e.g., strategy use and academic ... -
ATTENTION BIAS TOWARD THREAT ACQUISITION: A DEVELOPMENTAL FRAMEWORK
(2014)The primary goal of this study was to examine possible differences in threat bias acquisition across development. The current study aimed to 1) examine if threat bias could altered in 8, 12, and 18-year old children and ... -
Attention Performance in Children Affected with Absence Epilepsy and their First Degree Relatives
(1991)This study attempted to identify possible familial markers of absence epilepsy (petit mal epilepsy) as evidenced in the performance on tests of attention. The objective of this study examined as measured by neuropsychological ... -
The Best Friendships of Why/Withdrawn Middle Schoolers
(2017)Social withdrawal during childhood and adolescence tends to be associated with many outcome such as peer difficulties, and internalizing problems (see Rubin, Coplan, & Bowker 2009). Given the buffering effects of friendship, ... -
The best friendships of young adolescents: The role of internalizing symptoms, characteristics of friends, friendship quality, and observed disclosure
(2008-01-15)The best friendships of emotionally distressed and typical young adolescents were investigated. A group of 5th and 6th grade young adolescents completed ratings on friendship quality and participated in videotaped friendship ... -
Beyond a Relational Understanding of Fractions: Elements of Instruction that Contribute to Preservice Teachers' Knowledge and Motivation
(2006-04-26)This study was undertaken in order to better understand preservice elementary teachers' knowledge of and motivations toward fractions before and after taking a course designed to promote relational understanding, as well ... -
The bilingual acquisition of compound words and its relation to reading skills
(2008-04-22)This study investigated how Chinese-English bilingual children process compound words in their two languages and how that processing skill in one language affects reading skill in the other language. Experiments 1 and 2 ...