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Peer reviewedPike, Gary R. – Review of Higher Education, 1992
A study at the University of Tennessee Knoxville used mixed-effect structural equation models incorporating latent variables as an alternative to conventional methods of analyzing college students' (n=722) first-year-to-senior academic gains. Results indicate, contrary to previous analysis, that coursework and student characteristics interact to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPike, Gary R. – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A study compared three methods for measuring college student growth and development in the course of a college education: (1) gain scores; (2) residual scores; and (3) repeated measures. Analyses indicated that all three are seriously flawed, although repeated measures offer the greatest potential for adequately representing student change.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment
Peer reviewedPike, Gary R. – Research in Higher Education, 1991
Analysis of data on freshman-to-senior developmental gains in 722 University of Tennessee-Knoxville students provides evidence of the advantages of structural equation modeling with latent variables and suggests that the group differences identified by traditional analysis of variance and covariance techniques may be an artifact of measurement…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, College Seniors, Error of Measurement
