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Peer reviewedHarrison, William B. – Economics of Education Review, 1995
Combines costs of fund raising and college-relations data for each of 3 years from 17 colleges and universities with the schools' institutional characteristics to predict ratios of alumni donors to each school's total alumni. With factor analysis, classifies expenditure and institutional variables according to fund-raising effort, donor wealth,…
Descriptors: Alumni, Expenditures, Factor Analysis, Fund Raising
Download full textMuraki, Eiji; Engelhard, George, Jr. – 1985
Recent developments in dichotomous factor analysis based on multidimensional item response models (Bock and Aitkin, 1981; Muthen, 1978) provide an effective method for exploring the dimensionality of questionnaire items. Implemented in the TESTFACT program, this "full information" item factor analysis accounts not only for the pairwise…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
