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Martin, John A. – Child Development, 1987
Provides a set of guidelines for evaluating research using structural equation modeling (SEM). Offers insight into how someone familiar with SEM would judge the adequacy of a study using such methods. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Logic, Research Methodology, Research Problems

Burchinal, Margaret; Appelbaum, Mark I. – Child Development, 1991
Quantitative growth curve models for estimating individual developmental functions from various types of longitudinal data are discussed in the context of investigator assumptions and research design characteristics. Linear and nonlinear models that estimate growth curves are illustrated, and contrasted when they are fit to speech development…
Descriptors: Children, Individual Development, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition