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Developing Student, Family, And School Constructs From Nlts2 Data, Karrie A. Shogren, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal
Developing Student, Family, And School Constructs From Nlts2 Data, Karrie A. Shogren, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal
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The purpose of this study was to use data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study–2 (NLTS2) to (a) conceptually identify and empirically establish student, family, and school constructs; (b) explore the degree to which the constructs can be measured equivalently across disability groups; and (c) examine latent differences (means, variances, and correlations) in the constructs across disability groups. Conceptual analysis of NLTS2 individual survey items yielded 21 student, family, and school constructs, and 16 were empirically supported. Partial strong metric invariance was established across disability groups, and in the latent space, a complex pattern of mean and variance differences across …