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The Substantiveness of Socioeconomic School Compositional Effects in Australia: Measurement Error and the Relationship with Academic Composition
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Sciffer, Michael G.; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with academic composition utilising the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) dataset. Previous research has found that school composition predicts a range of schooling outcomes. A…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Foreign Countries, Error of Measurement, Literacy
A Primer on Continuous-Time Modeling in Educational Research: An Exemplary Application of a Continuous-Time Latent Curve Model with Structured Residuals (CT-LCM-SR) to PISA Data
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Lohmann, Julian F.; Zitzmann, Steffen; Voelkle, Manuel C.; Hecht, Martin – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
One major challenge of longitudinal data analysis is to find an appropriate statistical model that corresponds to the theory of change and the research questions at hand. In the present article, we argue that "continuous-time models" are well suited to study the continuously developing constructs of primary interest in the education…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Structural Equation Models, Time, Achievement Tests
A Comparison of Three Approaches to Covariate Effects on Latent Factors
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Wang, Ze – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
In educational and psychological research, it is common to use latent factors to represent constructs and then to examine covariate effects on these latent factors. Using empirical data, this study applied three approaches to covariate effects on latent factors: the multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) approach, multiple group confirmatory…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement