Browsing Human Development & Quantitative Methodology Theses and Dissertations by Title
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RANDOMIZATION-BASED INFERENCE ABOUT LATENT VARIABLES FROM COMPLEX SAMPLES: THE CASE OF TWO-STAGE SAMPLING
(2012)In large-scale assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plausible values based on Multiple Imputations (MI) have been used to estimate population characteristics for latent constructs ... -
Reading Comprehension and its Assessment : Aligning Operationalization with Conceptualization of the Construct
(2012)The current study explored ways to improve reading comprehension assessments. Available assessments appeared misaligned with views of comprehension that are emerging in the reading research literature. Further, the ... -
READING COMPREHENSION COMPONENT PROCESSES IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE
(2005-04-07)A significant proportion of American high school students struggle with reading comprehension. Several different models might help identify the components that have the largest effect on comprehension. The current dissertation ... -
READING IN PRINT AND DIGITALLY: PROFILING AND INTERVENING IN UNDERGRADUATES’ MULTIMODAL TEXT PROCESSING, COMPREHENSION, AND CALIBRATION
(2019)As a consequence of today’s rapid-paced society and ever-changing technologies, students are frequently called upon to process texts in print and digitally. Further, multimodal texts are standard in textbooks and foundational ... -
READY FOR KINDERGARTEN: A TRAINING PROGRAM DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE PARENT-CHILD CONVERSATION DURING THE PRESCHOOL YEARS
(2016)Many children in the United States begin kindergarten unprepared to converse in the academic language surrounding instruction, putting them at greater risk for later language and reading difficulties. Importantly, correlational ... -
Recognizing High Achievement in Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Friends' Values and Individuals' Motivation and Background as Associated with the Identification of Tenth-Graders by Teachers and Test Performance
(2007-04-25)The relationships of school context, motivation, and individual background to receiving teacher nominations for advanced work and/or scoring in the top decile on a standardized test of achievement were examined in both ... -
Reframing Parent Involvement: The Role of a Museum Program in Connecting Parents and Schools
(2009)Using grounded theory methods, a qualitative study was conducted to generate theoretical propositions about the nature of parent involvement generally, and the role that a museum program can play in facilitating parent ... -
Relational Reasoning and Socially Shared Regulation of Learning in Collaborative Problem Solving
(2020)The ability to solve complex problems in collaborative settings is considered a critical 21st century competency. Yet, national and international reports have revealed deficiencies in both students’ and employees’ teamwork ... -
The Relations Among Childcare Provider Education, Neighborhood Poverty, and the Quality of Childcare Classrooms
(2008-08-03)The current study examined contextual influences on the quality of the childcare classroom. Previous research has examined how direct influences, such as childcare provider education, impact childcare quality, but to date, ... -
Relations among Topic Knowledge, Individual Interest, and Relational Reasoning, and Critical Thinking in Maternity Nursing
(2016)Critical thinking in learners is a goal of educators and professional organizations in nursing as well as other professions. However, few studies in nursing have examined the role of the important individual difference ... -
The Relations of Children's Perceived Support for Recreational Reading from Parents and Friends to Their Motivation for Reading
(2008-11-17)This study investigated children's perceived support for their recreational reading from their mothers, fathers, and friends in relation to their reading motivation and habits. Models from the reading domain, including the ... -
The Relationship between Overt Verbal Attitude Responses toward Cheating Behavior, Achievement Needs, and Cheating on Test Items
(1967)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between overt verbal attitude responses of college students toward cheating behavior, achievement needs, and cheating behavior on test items. A ... -
The Relationship of Self-Esteem, Racial Identity, and Membership in an Africentric Organization to Academic Achievement Among African-Americans
(1991)Non-cognitive variables have been found to be better predictors of academic achievement than traditional cognitive-based test scores or high school graduation rank for African-American students. Studies by Tracey and ... -
The Relationship of Stress and Coping to Emotions Among Adolescents with Disabled Siblings
(1994)This research investigated the relationship of stress and coping to emotions among adolescents with disabled siblings. Potentially, stress comes from three sources: the relationship between the disabled and nondisable ... -
The Relationships Between Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Childhood Socialization Messages, and the Self-Esteems of Professional Black Women
(1991)This study investigated the relationships between perceived racial discrimination, perceived gender discrimination, childhood socialization messages and the global and situational self-esteems of Professional Black women. ... -
REPEATED MEANS MODELING: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR REPEATED MEASURES DESIGNS
(2018)The study presents a series of alternative ANOVA-based methods which offered a remedy to the traditional F test to accommodate violations of normality and sphericity assumptions. Specially Robust Means Modeling (RMM), ... -
RESISTING STEREOTYPES: EVALUATIONS OF PEER GROUP EXCLUSION
(2013)Gender stereotypes permeate peer groups, often functioning as the norms, or conventions, which contribute to group identity. Little is known about the conditions under which children will resist the norms of their peer ... -
The response-monitoring mechanism: Influence of feedback and temperament
(2008-05-06)The purpose of the current study was to examine behavioral and physiological processes underlying response-monitoring and to document the manner in which these processes are expressed during early childhood. As well, this ... -
Reward modulation of inhibitory control during adolescence: An age related comparison of behavior and neural function
(2010)The developmental period of adolescence is distinguished by a transition from the dependent, family-oriented state of childhood to the autonomous, peer-oriented state of adulthood. Related to this transition is a distinct ... -
REWEIGHTING DATA IN THE SPIRIT OF TUKEY: USING BAYESIAN POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES AS RASCH RESIDUALS FOR STUDYING MISFIT
(2010)A new variant of the iterative "data = fit + residual" data-analytical approach described by Mosteller and Tukey is proposed and implemented in the context of item response theory psychometric models. Posterior probabilities ...