Browsing by Subject "structural equation modeling"
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate post-international strategic alliance (ISA) formation issues, which have been neglected in the ISA literature. The specific research questions were 1) how do ISA partners ...
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(2021-04-13)In this study, a systematic review was conducted to assess the facilitators and barriers of conducting adult health programs within the African-American church. Findings from this study were stratified by using the ...
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(2023-05-04)The study sought to decode the social acceptance of three controversial technologies—nanotechnology, gene-editing, and food irradiation—and improve science communication surrounding the technologies. I developed a survey ...
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(2023-08-08)When researchers do not have two independent samples with which to cross-validate their instrument, the common advice is to randomly split the sample and conduct the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the first half and ...
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(2017-08-01)Estimating nonlinear effects, including interaction and quadratic effects, is a prevailing issue in social and behavioral science. Despite several advantages of using latent variable models in estimating nonlinear effects, ...
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(2009-05-15)This quantitative study derived from an on-going federal experimental research project targeting Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) receiving services in four program models: control/experimental transitional ...
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(2018-12-04)Latent growth curve models (LGM) are widely used in educational research to analyze longitudinal data. Typical normal-based maximum likelihood estimation (nMLE) assumes that data are normally distributed. Violations to the ...
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(2014-11-12)The number of studies examining the simultaneous impact of multi-level metalinguistic skills influencing spelling in English is scarce. Spelling necessitates an integrated and simultaneous working of various linguistic, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This research investigated the decision process surrounding the self-regulated learning of new uses of existing technology. With firms investing up to 50% of their capital budgets on information technology (in excess of ...