this study examined the substantive and predictive validity facets of the university entrance examination for english major (ueeem) students. to that aim, 111 english major students were recruited to report their scores on each of the subtests of the test as well as their grade point average. sequential multiple regressions and factor analysis were used in the analysis of the data. results ackn...

WHAT role do a person’s opportunities to choose play in the justification of social arrangements? We need to answer this question in order to arrive at a theory of substantive responsibility, which tells us the way in which a person’s claims on others, others’ claims on her, and the quality of her situation should depend on the opportunities she has and the choices she makes. To get a handle on...

This commentary discusses the Bauer and Curran (2002) investigation of growth mixture modeling. Single-class modeling of non-normal outcomes is compared to modeling with multiple latent trajectory classes. New statistical tests of multiple-class models are discussed. Principles for substantive investigation of growth mixture model results are presented and illustrated by an example of high scho...