Dominance analysis (DA) is a method used to compare the relative importance of predictors in multiple regression. DA determines the dominance of one predictor over another by comparing their additional R[squared] contributions across all subset models. In this article DA is extended to multivariate models by identifying a minimal set of criteria…

Four large organizations, two each from the private and public sectors of the Northern Ireland economy, were selected for this study which, first, explored the effects of religion-based workforce difference on intergroup relationships, second, investigated the contribution of organizational sector to communicative differences, and third, gauged…

This study examines the effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development in the early, middle, and late elementary years. Previous studies have generated mixed results partly due to some major methodological challenges, including selection bias, measurement error, and divergent perceptions of multiple respondents in…

Self-reported maternal literacy beliefs and home literacy practices were compared for families of children with typicially developing language skills (TL, n = 52) and specific language impairment (SLI, n = 56). Additionally, the present work examined whether maternal beliefs and practices predicted children's print-related knowledge. Mothers…

A majority of studies on learning disabilities have focused on elementary grades. Although problems with learning disabilities are life-affecting only a few studies focus on deficits in adults. In this study adults with isolated mathematical disabilities (n = 101) and adults with combined mathematical and reading disabilities (n = 130) solved…

The theories of Kerlinger and Eysenck on the nature of the dimensions underlying social attitudes are discussed. Integrating principles from both theories, an alternative approach to the issue, is suggested and tested on the domain of attitudes toward education in relation to personality. (Author/JKS)

Used various measures to examine neuropsychology of depression in terms of organic and motivational hypotheses among 30 medication-free depressed outpatients and 30 nondepressed controls. A 2 x 2 (diagnosis x motivational level) multivariate analysis revealed significant main effect for depression, but no effect for motivation and no interaction.…

The desire to investigate similarities and differences of Australian and US academic library professional librarian jobs motivated this paper. Job advertisements were gathered in August, September and October 2004. They are a subset of those reported in earlier studies which are more general in scope; this paper focused on the job market's…

This study examined the relationships between metacognition, self-regulation and students' critical thinking skills and disposition in online Socratic Seminars for ninth grade World Geography and Culture students. Participants of this study came from six intact pre-AP (Pre-Advanced Placement) classes in a public high school in south central Texas…

This study analyses the effects of learning contexts on proficiency development as well as attitudinal and behavioral changes. At a Japanese high school where content-based L2 instruction in global studies is a feature of education, TOEFL scores, international posture, L2 WTC, and frequency of communication in L2 were assessed in the participants'…

A particular strategy for investigating effects resulting from a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is proposed. The strategy involves multiple two-group multivariate analyses. The two groups result from considering multivariate pairwise group contrasts or multivariate complex group contrasts. Assuming a given two-group analysis yields…

Interpretations of relative variable importance in multivariate analysis of variance are discussed, with attention to (1) latent construct definition; (2) linear discriminant function scores; and (3) grouping variable effects. Two numerical ranking methods are proposed and compared by the bootstrap approach using two real data sets. (SLD)

Monte Carlo studies were conducted to compare four multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) simultaneous test procedures (STPs) in terms of power and Type I error under various conditions including violations of MANOVA assumptions. Results do not support the hypothesis that the moderately restricted STP is a good compromise between…

Describes a study that examined sense of community in two graduate distance education programs that differed only in the amount of face-to-face contact. Discusses results of multivariate analysis of variance and post hoc discriminant analysis and includes implications for asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) in higher education, especially the…

A Monte Carlo simulation study compared the power and Type I errors of the Wilks lambda statistic and the statistic of M. L. Puri and P. K. Sen (1971) on transformed data in a one-way multivariate analysis of variance. Preferred test procedures, based on robustness and power, are discussed. (SLD)