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Xie, Qin – Educational Psychology, 2017
The study utilised a fine-grained diagnostic checklist to assess first-year undergraduates in Hong Kong and evaluated its validity and usefulness for diagnosing academic writing in English. Ten English language instructors marked 472 academic essays with the checklist. They also agreed on a Q-matrix, which specified the relationships among the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Students, College English, Foreign Countries
Behm, Robert J.; Schill, William J.
A technique for assessing the agreement between the Q-sorts of two or more groups of subjects is presented which relies on the relationship between the Kendall coefficient of concordance (W) and the Spearman rank order correlation (rho). The proposed statistical treatment of Q-sort data involves the use of a number of intercorrelations rather than…
Descriptors: Correlation, Matrices, Q Methodology, Statistical Analysis