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Lee, Mickey, M.; Lee, Lynda Newby – 1984
The purpose of this study was to replicate the study conducted by Potter, Sagraves, and McDonald to determine whether their recommended analysis could separate criterion variables into similar factors that were stable from year to year and from school to school. The replication samples consisted of all students attending Louisiana State University…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Courses, Dental Schools, Factor Analysis
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Erford, Bradley T.; Dorman, Stacy L.; Ivey, Elizabeth A.; Wingeart, Leah N. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2001
Four independent samples of children were used to study the reliability and validity of the Writing Essential Skill Screener, a measure designed to screen primary grade children at risk for writing difficulties. Among findings was that the measure is comprised of two dimensions, writing and name writing, that the factor structure did not fit the…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Factor Structure, Primary Education, Psychometrics
Brown, Scott W.; Yakimowski, Mary E. – 1984
The purpose of this study was to replicate previous factor analytical studies of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) employing children identified as gifted. However, rather than using the IQ criterion, a child's 11 WISC-R subtest scores were included in the analysis. Subsamples of gifted (as classified by local school…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis