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Meerman, Arthur D. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2003
This study compared the perspectives of foreign and Japanese instructors regarding the impact of the former on lesson content and student learning. Participants consisted of 208 Assistant Language Teachers (ALT) and 96 Japanese Language Teachers (JLT) working together through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. Path models constructed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Path Analysis, Japanese
Silins, Halia C. – 1993
This paper tests the degree of overlap between operational definitions of transformational and transactional leadership, the nature of the relationships between the constructs of transformational and transactional leadership, and specified outcomes in an empirically derived data set by the application of two forms of analysis. Based on Bass's…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
Cuthbert, Alexander M. – 1985
Educational policy research has yet to account for the movement and manifestations of federal and state policies in local school districts. In an effort to describe and explain major consequences of policy, this study examines the policy ingression process (the movement of policy in the form of statute and regulation from the district…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Viemero, Vappu – 1986
A longitudinal field study conducted in Turku, Finland, traced the development of aggression as a function of the viewing of violence by children from the ages of 7 and 9 to the ages of 15 and 17 to explore the connection between violence viewing and viewers' aggression, and to shed light on the question of causality. The 220 subjects, both male…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Children, Cognitive Processes
Rank, Mark R.; Sabatelli, Ronald M. – 1982
This paper discusses path analysis and the applicability of this methodology to the field of family studies. The statistical assumptions made in path analysis are presented along with a description of the two types of models within path analysis, i.e., recursive and non-recursive. Methods of calculating in the path model and the advantages of…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Divorce, Family Counseling
Crowder, N. David – 1971
Duncan's interpretation of his research on the nature and process of the distribution of rewards in the U.S. stratification system is questioned. Statistical and conceptual flaws are noted in Duncan's work and their implications explored. A reanalysis of primary survey data is presented and, based on a reinterpretation of this data, a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Research
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Lewis, Paddy – 1973
This research investigated the model that proposes that significant others affect self-concept of academic ability which affects achievement. The statistical method used was path analysis. The population studied consisted of low-achieving black students. The model was not substantiated for students who had negative (defensive) attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educational Research
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Lee, Gary R.; Whitbeck, Les B. – Rural Sociology, 1987
Uses path analysis and data from 2,829 Washington State residents aged 55 and over to study effects of rural or urban residence on social integration/loneliness. Finds rural residents not more highly integrated into social networks than urban counterparts and not lonelier. Discusses implications for existing social relations stereotypes of the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Interpersonal Relationship, Loneliness, Middle Aged Adults
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Erwin, T. Dary; Nelson, Randall B. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
Describes development of a causal model to test effects of scholastic ability, computing attitudes, and computing background of university undergraduates on use of a computer-assisted instructional system, PLATO-LDEC; on attitudes toward PLATO-LDEC; on computing attitudes after students' PLATO-LDEC experience; and on course grade. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Engineering Education
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Tunmer, William E.; Nesdale, Andrew R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
This study investigated the relationship of phonological awareness to learning to read. Australian first-grade children were tested for verbal intelligence, phonemic segmentation ability, and reading achievement. Path analysis revealed phonological awareness affected reading comprehension indirectly through phonological recoding. The development…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Lapsley, Daniel K.; Quintana, Stephen M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1989
Used a data analytic strategy that was novel to the M-space literature to examine the mental capacity prerequisites of social-cognitive development of 99 students in grades one, three, and five. Used a structural equations analysis to determine whether M-power was a significant predictor of role-taking development. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Beauvais, Fred – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1992
Reviews theories about heavy alcohol and drug use among American Indians. Presents path models linking drug use of Indian and non-Indian adolescents to socialization characteristics: family strength and attitudes, religious identification, school adjustment, and peer drug associations (the most important factor). Lists risk factors for Indian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, At Risk Persons, Behavior Theories
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Zimmerman, Barry J.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1992
The causal role of students' self-efficacy beliefs and academic goals in self-motivated academic attainment was studied for 102 ninth and tenth graders (50 males and 52 females) using path analysis procedures. Perceived efficacy to achieve motivates academic attainment both directly and indirectly by influencing personal goal setting. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Objectives, Etiology, Grade 10
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Bill, Brigitte; Naus, Peter – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1992
Studied the role of humor, gender, and sexist attitudes toward women in the interpretation of sexist incidents. Among 30 male and 30 female Canadian college students, perceiving sexist incidents as humorous was associated with seeing the incidents as less sexist and more acceptable. Gender did not affect the interpretation. (JB)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Humor
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Ewert, Alan; Sibthorp, Jim – Journal of Experiential Education, 2000
Multivariate analytic techniques offer useful research methods that permit the experiential educator to test theoretical models, analyze the effects of several variables acting together, and predict the effects of one set of variables upon another set of variables. Several of these techniques are discussed, including analysis of variance, multiple…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Educational Research
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