Assessing and analysing individual differences in change over time is of central scientific
importance to developmental neuroscience. However, the literature is based largely on …

When members of a stigmatized group find themselves in a situation where negative
stereotypes provide a possible framework for interpreting their behavior, the risk of being …

This book reviews the statistical procedures used to detect measurement bias. Measurement
bias is examined from a general latent variable perspective so as to accommodate different …

Although the effect of stereotype threat concerning women and mathematics has been
subject to various systematic reviews, none of them have been performed on the sub …

This article describes blavaan, an R package for estimating Bayesian structural equation
models (SEMs) via JAGS and for summarizing the results. It also describes a novel …

The construct of school engagement has attracted growing interest as a way to ameliorate
the decline in academic achievement and increase in dropout rates. The current study tested …

This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by
exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning …

A meta-analysis of stereotype threat effects was conducted and an overall mean effect size
of|. 26| was found, but true moderator effects existed. A series of hierarchical moderator …

A review of efforts to assess the invariance of measurement instruments across different
respondent groups using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is provided for the years since …

Past research has assumed that group differences in academic performance entirely reflect
genuine differences in ability. In contrast, extending research on stereotype threat, we …