Human Development & Quantitative Methodology Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
A Comparison of Adolescents’ In-Person and Virtual Peer Interactions in a Multiplayer Video Game
(2020)Virtual peer interaction is prevalent among adolescents (Anderson & Jiang, 2018), but little is known about how adolescents’ virtual interactions with peers compare to their in-person interactions. The present study aimed ... -
A Multilevel Testlet Joint Model of Responses and Response Time
(2020)In approaches to joint response and response time (RT) modeling there is an assumption of conditional independence of the responses and the RTs. Further, in IRT modeling of the responses, there is the assumption that the ... -
Multilevel Regression Discontinuity Models with Latent Variables
(2020)Regression discontinuity (RD) designs allow estimating a local average treatment effect (LATE) when assignment of an individual to treatment is determined by their location on a running variable in relation to a cutoff ... -
Multivariate Multilevel Value-Added Modeling: Constructing a Teacher Effectiveness Composite
(2019)This simulation study presents a justification for evaluating teacher effectiveness with a multivariate multilevel model. It was hypothesized that the multivariate model leads to more precise effectiveness estimates when ...