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Kruger, Meta L.; Witziers, Bob; Sleegers, Peter – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the antecedents and effects of educational leadership, and of the influence of the principal's leadership on intervening and outcome variables. A path analysis was conducted to test and validate a causal model. The results show no direct or indirect effects of educational leadership on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Instructional Leadership, School Culture, School Effectiveness
Holland, Paul W. – 1988
D. B. Rubin's model for causal inference in experiments and observational studies is enlarged to analyze the problem of "causes causing causes" and is compared to path analysis and recursive structural equations models. A special quasiexperimental design, the encouragement design, is used to give concreteness to the discussion by…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Observation, Path Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design
Liu, Richard – 2002
College student retention has become the area of research that has done the most to integrate various administrative factors and academic disciplinary concerns in the research agenda of higher education. V. Tintos model has long been cited as the major theory in explaining dropout behavior. As his theory is so intertwined with path analysis,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Causal Models, College Students, Dropout Research
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Games, Paul A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1990
The logical flaw of using the methods of path analysis and structural equation modeling to make causative conclusions is demonstrated. A proper evaluation of the role of investigation versus experimentation is cited in the work of W. G. Cochran as explicated by D. R. Rubin (1983). (TJH)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Correlation, Experiments, Methods Research
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Cheung, K. C. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
Results are presented of an evaluation of effects of the within-classroom component of the Second International Science Study on science learning processes and products at the twelfth-grade level in Hong Kong. Partial Least Squares Path (PLSPATH) analysis is used to model the data obtained from 6,103 students in 217 classrooms. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Grade 12