Browsing Human Development & Quantitative Methodology Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Latent Class Logistic Regression with Complex Sample Survey Data
(2004-11-12)Latent class regression has been reported previously in the literature. Often, however, data are collected from a survey that utilizes unequal selection probabilities that result in complex sample survey data. Techniques ... -
A Latent Factor Approach for Social Network Analysis
(2019)Social network data consist of entities and the relation of information between pairs of entities. Observations in a social network are dyadic and interdependent. Therefore, making appropriate statistical inferences from ... -
Latent Growth Curve Analysis with Item Response Data: Model Specification, Estimation, and Panel Attrition
(2017)Measuring change in a construct over time in educational or psychological research is often achieved by administering the same items to the same respondents repeatedly over time. When item response data are categorical, a ... -
Learning with hypermedia: Examining cognitive, motivational, and contextual factors
(2007-04-17)Think-aloud, pretest, posttest, and self-efficacy data collected from 85 undergraduates were used to examine factors related to learning with hypermedia. Participants, randomly assigned to either the No Scaffolding (NS) ... -
LIFE SATISFACTION OF IMMIGRANT ASIAN INDIAN ELDERLY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(1990)This study explored life satisfaction among immigrant Asian Indian elderly men and women living in the United States, and examined the influence of selected variables on life satisfaction. Fifty Asian Indian immigrant ... -
The Link Between Relationship Orientations and Friendship Quality: The Mediating Roles of Social Goals and Resolution Strategies
(2013)During adolescence, friendships become increasingly important to overall well-being, yet it is common for individuals to experience frequent conflicts with their friends. Theories relating to social cognition offer a ... -
Literate Behaviors in African American Head Start Families: A Multiple Literacies Perspective
(2004-04-30)Low literacy and illiteracy have been documented among low-income African American children. The problems associated with low literacy and illiteracy often extend into adulthood, with potentially devastating consequences. ... -
Low-Income African American Fathers' Contributions to Toddlers' Social and Emotional Development
(2007-11-26)Growing interest in low-income, minority fathers' involvement and concern over their children's social and emotional development highlights the need for empirical investigation into the predictors of low-income fathers' ... -
LOW-INCOME LATINO IMMIGRANT MOTHERS AND THEIR TODDLERS: HOW DOES SOCIALIZATION PROMOTE INHIBITORY CONTROL SKILLS?
(2015)Executive function (EF), cognitive skills involved in planning and problem solving, includes inhibitory control as one of its major components. Inhibitory control skills and overall EF has been positively related to social, ... -
LOW-INCOME TEEN FATHERS' TRAJECTORY OF INVOLVEMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL, CONTEXTUAL, AND COPARENTAL FACTORS
(2009)While teen births are on the rise and marriage rates are on the decline, fathers have become a recent focus. However, there is a dearth of literature on teen fathers' parenting behaviors. The current study provided a ... -
Maternal Adolescent Parenting Behavior and Child Aggressive and Inattentive Behavior: Findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
(2008-11-17)Adolescent parenting is associated with a wide variety of risk factors for both the mother (Berlin, Brady-Smith, & Brooks-Gunn, 2002) and child (Moore & Brooks-Gunn, 2002). Understanding the pathways leading toward poor ... -
Maternal and Paternal Parenting and Girls' and Boys' Attachment Security in Middle Childhood
(2005-10-05)Current attachment security is presumed to reflect both early experiences and current relationships with attachment figures. However, few researchers have examined the parenting behaviors that are linked with attachment ... -
Maternal Experiences of Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Analysis
(2015)Despite the increased prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) over the last two decades (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015), little is known about the parenting of children with ASD, including ... -
Maternal Well-Being, Child Care, and Children's Development in Families Eligile for Subsidies
(2013)Child-care subsidies (CCDF) were expanded after welfare reform in 1996 to help low-income families pay for child-care. Descriptive studies have been conducted on the relationship of subsidies to maternal work characteristics, ... -
Maturity in reading, revisited: A closer look at adult competent and mature reading
(2012)This study investigated the nature of higher-level reading development in adults. Theories of reading development vary in what they identify as the desired endpoints of reading development, with one key difference being ... -
MEANING IN THE LIVES OF OLDER WOMEN: AN ANALYSIS WITH HARDINESS, HEALTH, AND PERSONAL PROJECTS
(2003-12-09)Wong's (1989) cognitive, affective, and motivational components of meaning in life were examined and supported applying personal projects methodology (Little, 1983), a meaning measure, hardiness, and functional health with ... -
MEASURING LEARNING PROGRESSIONS USING BAYESIAN MODELING IN COMPLEX ASSESSMENTS
(2011)This research examines issues regarding model estimation and robustness in the use of Bayesian Inference Networks (BINs) for measuring Learning Progressions (LPs). It provides background information on LPs and how they ... -
Measuring Transactive Memory Systems Using Network Analysis
(2017)Transactive memory systems (TMSs) describe the structures and processes that teams use to share information, work together, and accomplish shared goals. First introduced over three decades ago, TMSs have been measured in ... -
METHODS OF INTEGRATING MULTI-MODAL DATA FOR DETECTING ABERRANT TEST-TAKING BEHAVIORS IN LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENTS
(2020)Many schools, states, and countries use scores from large-scale assessments in making important high-stakes decisions in such areas as college admissions, academic performance evaluations, and job promotions among others. ... -
Mixed-format Test Equating: Effects of Test Dimensionality and Common-item Sets
(2008-11-18)The main purposes of this study were to systematically investigate the impact of representativeness and non-representativeness of common-item sets in terms of statistical, content, and format specifications in mixed-format ...