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Gutkin, Terry B.; Reynolds, Cecil R. – Journal of School Psychology, 1980
Principal factor solutions to the WISC-R were compared across race for Anglo and Chicano children. Additional comparisons of factor solutions were made with those for Anglo, Chicano, Black, and Papago students and the WISC-R standardization sample. Substantial congruence occurred across race. The two-factor solution was most appropriate for this…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Children, Ethnic Groups, Factor Analysis
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Knight, George P.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Results indicated that the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales II, one subscale of the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale, and all but one subscale of the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory produced equivalent measures of an English-speaking Hispanic sample and an Anglo-American sample. (BC)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Child Rearing, Children, Construct Validity
Janson, Philip; And Others – 1982
A recent issue of importance in the vast literature on well-being and age concerns the factorial invariance of the construct across age groups. Current wisdom suggests that while differences in loadings exist among age groups, the construction of summary measures introduces little bias. To investigate age and ethnic variation in the meaning of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Ethnic Groups
Soto-Padin, Jose L. – 1968
Information on social behavior independence, and intelligence was gathered on 74 Head Start subjects (Anglo, Negro, and Mexican-American) aged 5 to 7 years, for the development of a scale to measure the level of independence in small children. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) Level of independence will differentiate ethnic groups. Ranking…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Anglo Americans, Behavior Rating Scales
Guilford, Joan S.; And Others – 1971
The purpose of this project was to develop a non-verbal self-administering values inventory appropriate for children grades one to three. Children from five ethnic groups were administered a 60-item picture inventory designed to measure dimensions of value based on needs. Factor analyses of the resulting item inter-correlations for the total…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Chinese Americans
Merz, William R. – 1976
A number of methods have been used to identify potentially biased items within a test. These methods examine one item at a time and do not deal with the complex interrelationships among items or among items and the potentially biasing elements. The use of multivariate procedures to assess whether or not items are biased and to obtain clues about…
Descriptors: American Indians, Analysis of Variance, Anglo Americans, Blacks