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Racial/ethnic differences in perceptions of school climate and its association with student engagement and peer aggression
(Springer New York LLC, 2017)
Research indicates that a positive school climate is associated with higher levels of student engagement and lower rates of peer aggression. However, less attention has been given to whether such findings are consistent ...
A Two-step latent profile method for identifying invalid respondents in self-reported survey data
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-17)
Insincere respondents can have an adverse impact on the validity of substantive inferences arising from self-administered questionnaires (SAQs). The current study introduces a new method for identifying potentially invalid ...
Association of grade configuration with school climate for 7th and 8th grade students
(American Psychological Association, 2017)
Educational authorities have questioned whether middle schools provide the best school climate for 7th and 8th grade students, and proposed that other grade configurations such as K– 8th grade schools may provide a better ...
Family deviance, self-control, deviant lifestyles, and youth violent victimization: a latent indirect effects analysis
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-10-16)
Research increasingly explores more complex relations of low self-control and context factors, such as structural constraints that limit behavioral lifestyle options, with violent victimization. The authors extend extant ...
Estimating school climate traits across multiple informants: an Illustration of a multitrait–multimethod validation through latent variable modeling
(Taylor and Francis, 2017)
The use of multiple informants is common in assessments that rely on the
judgments of others. However, ratings obtained from different informants
often vary as a function of their perspectives and roles in relation to ...