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Muthén, Bengt; Asparouhov, Tihomir – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
This article reviews and compares recently proposed factor analytic and item response theory approaches to the study of invariance across groups. Two methods are described and contrasted. The alignment method considers the groups as a fixed mode of variation, while the random-intercept, random-loading two-level method considers the groups as a…
Descriptors: Measurement, Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, Statistical Analysis
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Hoofs, Huub; van de Schoot, Rens; Jansen, Nicole W. H.; Kant, IJmert – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Bayesian confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) offers an alternative to frequentist CFA based on, for example, maximum likelihood estimation for the assessment of reliability and validity of educational and psychological measures. For increasing sample sizes, however, the applicability of current fit statistics evaluating model fit within Bayesian…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Bayesian Statistics, Factor Analysis, Sample Size
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Kastner, Itamar; Adriaans, Frans – Cognitive Science, 2018
Statistical learning is often taken to lie at the heart of many cognitive tasks, including the acquisition of language. One particular task in which probabilistic models have achieved considerable success is the segmentation of speech into words. However, these models have mostly been tested against English data, and as a result little is known…
Descriptors: Role, Phonemes, Contrastive Linguistics, English
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Norouzian, Reza; de Miranda, Michael; Plonsky, Luke – Language Learning, 2018
Frequentist methods have long dominated data analysis in quantitative second language (L2) research. Recently, however, several empirical fields have begun to embrace alternatives known as Bayesian methods. Using an open-source approach, we provide an applied, nontechnical rationale for Bayesian methods in L2 research. First, we compare the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis
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Hanauer, Matthew; Yel, Nedim – Research in the Schools, 2018
Bayesian analysts use informed priors to improve analytic precision and prediction; however, rarely have they applied a mixed methods approach that uses qualitative data to develop these priors. Yet, using qualitatively informed priors can be useful when making predictions in the context of small sample sizes, which is common in school-based…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Response to Intervention, Mixed Methods Research, Bayesian Statistics
Cain, Meghan K.; Zhang, Zhiyong – Grantee Submission, 2018
Despite its importance to structural equation modeling, model evaluation remains underdeveloped in the Bayesian SEM framework. Posterior predictive p-values (PPP) and deviance information criteria (DIC) are now available in popular software for Bayesian model evaluation, but they remain under-utilized. This is largely due to the lack of…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Monte Carlo Methods, Sample Size
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Nguyen, Huy; Liew, Chun Wai – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Recent works on Intelligent Tutoring Systems have focused on more complicated knowledge domains, which pose challenges in automated assessment of student performance. In particular, while the system can log every user action and keep track of the student's solution state, it is unable to determine the hidden intermediate steps leading to such…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Data Analysis, Error Patterns
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Chen, Dawn; Lu, Hongjing; Holyoak, Keith J. – Cognitive Science, 2017
A key property of relational representations is their "generativity": From partial descriptions of relations between entities, additional inferences can be drawn about other entities. A major theoretical challenge is to demonstrate how the capacity to make generative inferences could arise as a result of learning relations from…
Descriptors: Inferences, Abstract Reasoning, Learning Processes, Models
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Marsman, Maarten; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
P values have been critiqued on several grounds but remain entrenched as the dominant inferential method in the empirical sciences. In this article, we elaborate on the fact that in many statistical models, the one-sided "P" value has a direct Bayesian interpretation as the approximate posterior mass for values lower than zero. The…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Probability, Statistical Analysis
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Levy, Roy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A conceptual distinction is drawn between indicators, which serve to define latent variables, and outcomes, which do not. However, commonly used frequentist and Bayesian estimation procedures do not honor this distinction. They allow the outcomes to influence the latent variables and the measurement model parameters for the indicators, rendering…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Sampling, Goodness of Fit
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Hu, Jingchen – Journal of Statistics Education, 2020
We propose a semester-long Bayesian statistics course for undergraduate students with calculus and probability background. We cultivate students' Bayesian thinking with Bayesian methods applied to real data problems. We leverage modern Bayesian computing techniques not only for implementing Bayesian methods, but also to deepen students'…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students, Computation
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De Bondt, Niki; Donche, Vincent; Van Petegem, Peter – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
Research indicates that educational stratification may lead to a lower-track school culture of futility and a less academically-oriented culture among lower-track teachers, leading to both reduced study involvement and lower educational achievement among their students. This study investigated whether an anti-school culture in the lower tracks [in…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational High Schools, Secondary Education, Intelligence
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Xing, Wanli; Li, Chenglu; Chen, Guanhua; Huang, Xudong; Chao, Jie; Massicotte, Joyce; Xie, Charles – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
Integrating engineering design into K-12 curricula is increasingly important as engineering has been incorporated into many STEM education standards. However, the ill-structured and open-ended nature of engineering design makes it difficult for an instructor to keep track of the design processes of all students simultaneously and provide…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
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Linkow, Tamara; Miller, Hannah; Parsad, Amanda; Price, Cristofer; Martinez, Alina – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
These are the appendices for the report "Study of College Transition Messaging in GEAR UP: Impacts on Enrolling and Staying in College." Five appendices are included in the document: (1) Additional Details about College Transition Messaging; (2) Additional Information about How the Study Was Designed and Implemented; (3) Supplemental…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Telecommunications, Synchronous Communication
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Bárcena, M. J.; Garín, M. A.; Martín, A.; Tusell, F.; Unzueta, A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
Teaching some concepts in statistics greatly benefits from individual practice with immediate feedback. In order to provide such practice to a large number of students we have written a simulator based on an historical event: the loss in May 22, 1968, and subsequent search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. Students work on a simplified…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Bayesian Statistics
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