A Note on Procrustean Rotation in Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Computer Intensive Approach to Goodness-of-Fit Evaluation

Tenko Raykov; Todd D. Little

Educational and Psychological Measurement Vol. 59, No. 1 (1999) pp. 47–57

Describes a method for evaluating results of Procrustean rotation to a target factor pattern matrix in exploratory factor analysis. The approach, based on the bootstrap method, yields empirical approximations of the sampling distributions of: (1)...

Profiles of ability, effort, and difficulty: Relationships with worldviews, motivation and adjustment

Lars-Erik Malmberg; Todd D. Little

Learning and Instruction Vol. 17, No. 6 (December 2007) pp. 739–754

Adopting a person-centered approach, we profiled 5th and 6th grade children's (152 boys and 161 girls) school-related beliefs about perceived task difficulty and agency beliefs in ability and effort. Five clusters were compared across key learning...

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Individual and Contextual Predictors of Cyberbullying: The Influence of Children's Provictim Attitudes and Teachers' Ability to Intervene

L Christian Elledge; Anne Williford; Aaron J. Boulton; Kathryn J. DePaolis; Todd D. Little; Christina Salmivalli

Journal of Youth and Adolescence Vol. 42, No. 5 (May 2013) pp. 698–710

Electronic social communication has provided a new context for children to bully and harass their peers and it is clear that cyberbullying is a growing public health concern in the US and abroad. The present study examined individual and contextual...

Effect of Intervention with the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction on Access and Goal Attainment

Karrie A. Shogren; Susan B. Palmer; Michael L. Wehmeyer; Kendra Williams-Diehm; Todd D. Little

Remedial and Special Education Vol. 33, No. 5 (September 2012) pp. 320–330

Promoting self-determination has been identified as best practice in special education and transition services and as a means to promote goal attainment and access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. There have been,...