Browsing Human Development & Quantitative Methodology Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
A Mixed-Methods Study of Perceived Academic Autonomy in Japanese Students and Its Relations to Their Motivation
(2006-08-04)Numerous studies link intrinsic motivation to positive outcomes such as increased cognitive engagement, task persistence, achievement, and creativity (Ryan & Deci, 2000a). In Self-Determination Theory (SDT), Ryan and ... -
A MIXED-STRATEGIES RASCH TESTLET MODEL FOR LOW-STAKES TESTLET-BASED ASSESSMENTS
(2013)In low-stakes assessments, a lack of test-taking motivation inevitably occurs because test scores impose inconsequential effects on test takers' academic records. A common occurrence is that some test takers are unmotivated ... -
THE MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION POLYTOMOUS RASCH MODEL USED TO ACCOUNT FOR RESPONSE STYLES ON RATING SCALES: A SIMULATION STUDY OF PARAMETER RECOVERY AND CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY
(2013)Response styles presented in rating scale use have been recognized as an important source of systematic measurement bias in self-report assessment. People with the same amount of a latent trait may be a victim of a biased ... -
A MIXTURE RASCH MODEL WITH A COVARIATE:A SIMULATION STUDY VIA BAYESIAN MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ESTIMATION
(2009)Mixtures of item response theory models have been proposed as a technique to explore response patterns in test data related to cognitive strategies, instructional sensitivity, and differential item functioning (DIF). ... -
A MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF EPISTEMIC AND ONTOLOGIC COGNITION
(2007-05-29)While its advocates trumpet personal epistemology research as an essential contribution to the understanding of student cognition, the field currently wrestles with four problems. There is a lack of consensus regarding ... -
MODELING CLUSTERED DATA WITH FEW CLUSTERS: A CROSS-DISCIPLINE COMPARISON OF SMALL SAMPLE METHODS
(2015)Small sample inference with clustered data has received increased attention recently in the methodological literature with several simulation studies being presented on the small sample behavior of various methods. There ... -
Modeling Multiple Problem-Solving Strategies and Strategy Shift in Cognitive Diagnosis for Growth
(2020)Problem-solving strategies, defined as actions people select intentionally to achieve desired objectives, are distinguished from skills that are implemented unintentionally. In education, strategy-oriented instructions ... -
MODELING MULTIPLE SOURCE USE: USING LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS AND SOURCE USE BEHAVIORS TO PREDICT RESPONSE QUALITY
(2014)Multiple source use (MSU) has been identified as both a critical competency and a key challenge for today's students, living in the digital age (Goldman & Scardamalia, 2013b). Theoretical models of multiple source use ... -
Modeling the Speed-Accuracy-Difficulty Interaction in Joint Modeling of Responses and Response Time
(2018)With the rapid development of information technology, computer-based tests have become more and more popular in large-scale assessments. Among all the auxiliary data collected during the test-taking process, response times ... -
More useful, or not so bad? Evaluating the effects of interventions to reduce perceived cost and increase utility value with college physics students
(2017)In the present study I developed and evaluated the effects of two interventions designed to target students’ motivation to learn in an introductory college physics course. One intervention was designed to improve students’ ...