Despite a growing interest in instructional feedback, students’ feedback perceptions received limited attention. We examined the structural validity and measurement invariance of Feedback Perceptions Questionnaire (FPQ). The FPQ measures terms perceived fairness, usefulness, acceptance, willingness to improve, affect. Secondary school students (N = 1486) fictional scenario containing Concise Ge...

Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) is among the most productive extensions of structural equation modeling. Many researchers conducting cross-cultural or longitudinal studies are interested in testing for measurement and structural invariance. The aim of the present paper is to provide a tutorial in MG-CFA using the freely available R-packages lavaan, semTools, and semPlot. Th...

There is continued debate about the appropriateness of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) for scale evaluation and latent variable modeling more generally. This study seeks to combine the strengths of EFA, namely flexible evaluation of item-factor structures, while using one of the unique strengths of CFA, the simultaneous adjustment for common method bias ...

To understand ethnic differences and the role of acculturation, this study compared a model of fathers’ care-giving across European American and Hispanic fathers. The model included Care-giving, Nurturing, Play, and Cognitive Stimulation and used Structural Equation Modelling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Analyses included: a) model comparison (i.e. four factors against single factor); b) m...

This article attends to recent discussions of validity in psychometric research on human life history strategy (LHS), provides a constructive critique of the extant literature, and describes strategies for improving construct validity. To place the psychometric study of human LHS on more solid ground, our review indicates that researchers should (a) use approaches to psychometric modeling that ...

The cultural equivalence of psychological outcome measures remains a major area of investigation. The current study sought to test the factor structure and factorial invariance of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) with a sample of adult individuals of Mexican descent (N=923) across nativity status (U.S.- vs. foreign-born), language format (English vs. Spanish), and gender. The results sho...

Purpose Measurement invariance is an important attribute for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Most of the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) studies on the HADS adopt the classical maximum likelihood approach. The restrictive assumptions of exact zero cross-loadings and residual correlations in the classical approach can lead to inadequate model fit and biased parameter estimat...

This paper investigates the structural properties of linear self-similar systems, using an invariant subspace approach. The self-similar property is interpreted in terms of invariance of the corresponding transfer function space to a given transformation in a Hilbert space, in a same way as the time invariance property for linear systems is related to the shift-invariance of the Hardy spaces. T...