The measurement of school engagement: Assessing dimensionality and measurement invariance across race and ethnicity

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1019-1041

  Glanville, Jennifer L ^a,b   Wildhagen, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Measurement invariance; NELS:88; School engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148976029     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164406299126     Document Type: Article

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