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Title: Evaluating the Dimensional Structure of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment--Short Form
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Ferron, John Ng'Andu, Nicholas Garrett, Patricia |
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Evaluating the Dimensional Structure of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment--Short Form Educational and Psychological Measurement 54,2 (Summer 1994): 537-540. Also: http://epm.sagepub.com/content/54/2/537.abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Children, Home Environment; Children, Preschool; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Infants; Methods/Methodology; Scale Construction; Tests and Testing Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study explores the dimensional structure of the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (HOME-SF). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate three hypothesized factor structures. Data used is a sample of 1,250 children up to 2 years old, assessed by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). All models were found to be unsatisfactory. The global fit indices were low, solutions were inadmissible, and many of the estimated factor loadings were small. Results indicate that the features of the home environment cannot be thought of as composing a single dimension, nor can they be thought of as composing dimensions corresponding to the NLSY scales or the original HOME scales. Further research is warranted to determine the character of what the HOME-SF measures. |
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Ferron, John, Nicholas Ng'Andu and Patricia Garrett. "Evaluating the Dimensional Structure of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment--Short Form." Educational and Psychological Measurement 54,2 (Summer 1994): 537-540.
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