The issue of measurement invariance commonly arises in factor-analytic contexts, with
methods for assessment including likelihood ratio tests, Lagrange multiplier tests, and Wald …

As the field of chemistry education moves toward greater inclusion and increased
participation by underrepresented minorities, standards for investigating the differential …

Stereotype threat is a widely cited psychological phenomenon with purported important real-
world consequences. Reanalysis of data from the Nguyen and Ryan (2008) stereotype …

This paper advances an argument in favor of conducting and reporting confirmatory factor
analyses (CFA) on existing and previously validated scales and reporting the findings of …

In psychological science, self-report scales are widely used to compare means in targeted
latent constructs across time points, groups, or experimental conditions. For these scale …

This chapter clarifies what validity is about, how it can be studied, and what sort of evidence
may be brought to bear on it. First, we make a sharp distinction between validity, as a …

An increasing number of schools offer bilingual programs, where lessons are taught in more
than one language. Several theories state that bilinguals have greater metalinguistic …

We investigated sex effects and the effects of educational attainment (EA) on the covariance
structure of the WAIS-III in a subsample of the Spanish standardization data. We fitted both …

In many world regions students with certain immigrant backgrounds underperform in
educational settings. Theory and research suggest that this achievement gap could be …

A new R package is presented for dealing with non-normality and variance heterogeneity of
sample data when conducting hypothesis tests of main effects and interactions in mixed …