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Kim, Se-Kang – International Journal of Testing, 2010
The aim of the current study is to validate the invariance of major profile patterns derived from multidimensional scaling (MDS) by bootstrapping. Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) was employed to obtain profiles and bootstrapping was used to construct the sampling distributions of the profile coordinates and the empirical…
Descriptors: Intervals, Multidimensional Scaling, Profiles, Evaluation
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Strand, Steve; Deary, Ian J.; Smith, Pauline – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background and aims: There is uncertainty about the extent or even existence of sex differences in the mean and variability of reasoning test scores ( Jensen, 1998; Lynn, 1994, ; Mackintosh, 1996). This paper analyses the Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) scores of a large and representative sample of UK pupils to determine the extent of any sex…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Students, Standardized Tests, Statistical Significance