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Gibbons, Alanna; Lyublinskaya, Irina – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Existing studies have defined and assessed disciplinary literacy, mathematical literacy, and general academic language. However, there is a need to define and assess mathematics discipline-specific language (MDL), particularly for elementary school teachers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a research instrument to assess the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Academic Language, Elementary School Students
Thompson, Bruce; Borrello, Gloria M. – 1990
The application and utility of confirmatory second-order factor analytic methods are discussed. Factor analysis is central to concerns regarding measurement validity. Confirmatory methods are especially useful because they explicitly consider measurement error influences and because the methods are inherently theory-driven and theory-oriented.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Graduate Students