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dc.contributor.convenorBrendan Bartlett
dc.contributor.authorGrimbeek, Peter
dc.contributor.authorBryer, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorBeamish, Wendi
dc.contributor.authorD'Netto, Michelle
dc.contributor.editorBrendan Bartlett, Fiona Bryer, & Dick Roebuck
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:53:16Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:53:16Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.modified2009-01-09T06:07:22Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/2534
dc.description.abstractA dataset of 399 junior and middle school students completed the Cognitive Holding Power questionnaire, which distinguishes between first-order procedural thinking to achieve specific goals and second-order solving of problems involving new situations. Factor analysis using the original 5-point scale indicated that these student responses were not completely consistent with the theorised two-factor structure. Some items contributed only marginally or became associated with the "wrong" factor. Analyses of these test data in the present study compared the outcomes of collapsing a 5-point Likert scale into 4- versus 2-category response options. By convention, four categorical points represent the minimum acceptable set for factor analysis (Byrne, 2001). However, collapsing from five to two response categories more fully corrects other methodological issues related to the occurrence of disordered difficulty in levels of response categories within items, indicative that participants' responses to items response patterns of the item set do not fit the expected sequence.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSchool of Cognition, Language, and Special Education
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane, Queensland
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename3rd International Conference on Cognition, Language, and Special Education
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleStimulating the “action” as participants in participatory
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2005-12-02
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2005-12-04
dc.relation.ispartoflocationGold Coast
dc.rights.retentionN
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode330109
dc.titleUse of data collapsing strategies to identify latent variables in CHP questionnaire data
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2005. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owners for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the authors.
gro.date.issued2005
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gro.griffith.authorBeamish, Wendi I.
gro.griffith.authorGrimbeek, Peter M.


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