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Tenko Raykov; Christine DiStefano; Lisa Calvocoressi – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
This note demonstrates that the widely used Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) need not be generally viewed as a routinely dependable index for model selection when the bifactor and second-order factor models are examined as rival means for data description and explanation. To this end, we use an empirically relevant setting with…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Decision Making, Comparative Analysis
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Stacy Gilbert; Kyunghye Kim; Rebecca Kelley; Alyssa Wright; Alessia Zanin-Yost – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
News aggregator databases offer different content and features, but there is little guidance on how these databases compare. This article compares the coverage scope, availability of 35 U.S. newspaper titles, and features of six news aggregators available to U.S. academic libraries: "Newspaper Source Plus" (EBSCO), "Factiva,"…
Descriptors: Databases, Library Automation, Access to Information, Information Sources
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Christopher G. Reddick; Branco Ponomariov – Quality in Higher Education, 2024
Higher education is often framed as a means to social mobility and increased earnings. However, the value of university education in the United States is coming under scrutiny in regard to its costs. This article examines a university education's return on investment (ROI) from attending different types of universities in the United States. Unlike…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education, Research Universities, Institutional Characteristics