The call for accountability in the educational system has led to the application of standardized testing to determine the assessment of students in the middle school setting. The standardized test administered to middle school children in Massachusetts is the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). Increasing stress in the testing process has created stress-related behaviors […]
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Session Long Project Tutorials: TUTORIAL ONE: PRINCIPLE COMPONENT/FACTOR ANALYSIS 1. Purpose of Methodology: The types of research questions that principle component and factor analysis would be most appropriate for are ones where you are attempting to reduce the number of variables and to detect structure in the relationship between variables, also known as classifying variables. […]