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Morrison, Frances; Pawley, Catherine – 1986
Two groups of grade 12 French immersion students in Ottawa and Carleton, Ontario, one having been in immersion French since at least grade 4 and one having started in grade 6 or 7, were administered three tests of French proficiency in a study of the groups' comparative language achievement. Scores sufficiently high to excuse the students from the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, French
Byrne, Barbara M.; Shavelson, Richard J. – 1986
This study examined the structure of adolescent self-concept (SC) structure for males and females by using three different measures of each SC facet in a covariance structure analysis of the data. Specifically, the purposes of the study were to: (1) test the hypothesis of the invariance of a multidimensional, hierarchical SC structure for males…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, English Instruction, Females
Byrne, Barbara M. – 1989
The construct validity of a multidimensional adolescent self-concept was estimated separately for males and females, and the results were compared across gender. The application of four multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) approaches to estimating construct validity was demonstrated, and the scope and consistency of the findings derived from each were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity