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Measurement Invariance in Comparing Attitudes toward Immigrants among Youth across Europe in 1999 and 2009: The Alignment Method Applied to IEA CIVED and ICCS
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Munck, Ingrid; Barber, Carolyn; Torney-Purta, Judith – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
This study applies the alignment method, a technique for assessing measurement equivalence across many groups, to the analysis of adolescents' support for immigrants' rights in a pooled data set from the 1999 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study and the 2009 IEA International Civics…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
The Relation of High-Achieving Adolescents' Social Perceptions and Motivation to Teachers' Nominations for Advanced Programs
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Barber, Carolyn; Torney-Purta, Judith – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2008
The discrepancies between test-based and teacher-based criteria of high achievement are well-documented for students of all ages. This study seeks to determine whether certain high school students who score high on tests of academic achievement are more likely than others to be nominated for advanced academic programs by their teachers. Using…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, High Achievement, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation