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Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students' prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-01)
Contextualizing science instruction involves utilizing students' prior knowledge and everyday experiences as a catalyst for understanding challenging science concepts. This study of two middle school science classrooms ...
Direct regression, reverse regression, and covariance structure analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
This paper discusses the issues in estimating the effects of marketing variables with linear models. When the variables are not directly observable, it is well known that direct regression yields biased estimates. Several ...
Solving and Testing for Regressor-Error (in)Dependence When no Instrumental Variables are Available: With New Evidence for the Effect of Education on Income
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new approach, the latent instrumental variables (LIV) method, to estimate regression coefficients consistently in a simple linear regression model where ...
Issues in the estimation and application of latent structure models of choice
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-10)
Our paper provides a brief review and summary of issues and advances in the use of latent structure and other finite mixture models in the analysis of choice data. Focus is directed to three primary areas: (1) estimation ...
Choice in Computer-Mediated Environments
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-07)
In the last several years, the increased diffusion of computer andtelecommunications technologies in businesses and homes has produced newways for organizations to connect with their customers. These computermediated ...