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Download full textLawton, Stephen B.; Currie, A. Blaine – 1979
This paper provides a progress report on an investigation to validate and extend the autocatalytic model for the adoption of educational innovations. Three topics are dealt with: (1) a brief description is provided of the autocatalytic model and its current application, (2) the design of a survey to collect data for further tests of the model is…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Data Collection, Diffusion, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedRost, Jurgen – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1988
A generalized Rasch model is presented for measuring attitudes; it is based on the concepts of Thurstone's method of successive intervals. Benefits of the model are illustrated with a study of students' (N=4,035 fifth through ninth graders) interest in physics. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Equations (Mathematics)
Conte, Michael; And Others – 1982
In five chapters, this document's first part reports on research on the interrelationship of school and municipal finance in New Hampshire. The document's second part briefly summarizes the research report and discusses policy changes suggested by the results. Chapter 1 of the research report describes New Hampshire schools and the state aid…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Economic Research, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Marsh, Herbert W.; Balla, John R. – 1986
This investigation examined the influence of sample size on different goodness-of-fit indices used in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The first two data sets were derived from large normative samples of responses to a multidimensional self-concept instrument and to a multidimensional instrument used to assess students' evaluations of teaching…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, Goodness of Fit
