Natasha K Bowen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 253334 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Natasha K Bowen |
| NOMBRES | Natasha K |
| APELLIDO | Bowen |
| FIRMA | BOWEN N K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0026-1764 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 594 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The effect on high school drop-out of a middle school relevance intervention
The disengagement that leads to school dropout may start as early as middle school, but may be interrupted by motivational interventions. One approach is to promote the relevance of content through explanations and demonstrations of the value of this content to students’ futures. CareerStart is an intervention that provides teachers prepackaged lessons for middle school math, English language arts, science, and social studies, which connects cont…
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical procedure used to identify qualitatively different subgroups within populations who often share certain outward characteristics. The assumption underlying LCA is that membership in unobserved groups (or classes) can be explained by patterns of scores across survey questions, assessment indicators, or scales. The application of LCA is an active area of research and continues to evolve. As more researche…
Difference-in-Differences as an Alternative to Pretest–Posttest Regression for Social Work Intervention Evaluation and Research
Nonrandomized evaluation designs are an important part of social work research because randomization is not always feasible in social work settings. Although randomly assigned groups are assumed to be equivalent, nonrandomly assigned groups are not. In nonrandomized settings, designs with multiple waves are ideal, but two-wave designs are still widely used. A common method for estimating a treatment effect in nonrandom two-wave designs is the pre…
Cross-national validity of the Beck Hopelessness Scale for children and adolescents
A sense of hopelessness is common but under-identified among poor children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Given the concomitant inadequate screening, assessment, and a lack of culturally and developmentally appropriate measures in much of SSA, identifying reliable and valid measures of hopelessness is needed. One promising candidate, the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), has undergone limited evaluation in the region and none with non-adult population…
Body Disapproval as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Risk Factors and Eating Disordered Behaviors Among American Adjudicated Male Youth
Conducting Measurement Invariance Tests with Ordinal Data
Objective: The validity of measures across groups is a major concern for social work researchers and practitioners. Many social workers use scales, or sets of questionnaire items, with ordinal response options. However, a review of social work literature indicates the appropriate treatment of ordinal data in measurement invariance tests is rare; only 3 of 57 articles published in 26 social work journals over the past 12 years used proper testing …
Rural Neighborhoods and Child Aggression
Structural equation modeling with latent variables was used to evaluate the direct and mediated effects of a neighborhood risk factor (negative teen behaviors) on the parent‐report aggressive behavior of 213 students in grades 3 through 5 attending a school in a low‐income, rural community. Contagion and social control hypotheses were examined as well as hypotheses about whether the neighborhood served as a microsystem or exosystem for rural pre‐…
A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Elementary School Success Profile Model of Assessment and Prevention
The Elementary School Success Profile Model of Assessment and Prevention (ESSP MAP) is an assessment and intervention strategy designed to improve student academic performance and behavior. The current analysis uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the relationship between a 3-year implementation of the ESSP MAP and aggregate academic outcomes. Students in one 3rd grade cohort (2007–2008) from 4 schools in 1 district received the interventi…
Structural Equation Modeling
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has long been used in social work research, but the writing on the topic is typically fragmented and highly technical. The chapters demonstrate two SEM programs with distinct user interfaces and capabilities (Amos and Mplus) with enough specificity that readers can conduct their own analyses without consulting additional resources. Examples from social work literature highlight best practices for the specificati…
Low Effect Sizes of Evidence-Based Programs in School Settings
School practitioners working from an evidence-based practice framework are expected to implement interventions that are effective with students. In the current study, the authors explore the feasibility of that expectation in light of the availability of critical effect size information necessary for making informed intervention decisions. Effect sizes for 51 school-based programs endorsed as effective by authoritative sources were reviewed. Effe…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Elementary School Success Profile for Teachers
Objectives: This study examines the factor structure and scale quality of data collected with the online Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) for Teachers from a sample of teachers of 1,145 third through fifth graders. Methods: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using Mplus and weighted least squares means and variances adjusted (WLSMV) estimation took into account the ordinal and clustered nature of the data. Models were tested on four rando…
Evidence-Based Programs in School Settings
In spite of multi-disciplinary calls for the use of evidence-based practice in schools, empirically supported interventions are not being implemented in most schools. To increase the use of evidence-based programs in schools, it may be necessary first to identify characteristics of those programs and other factors that represent barriers to their use. This study examined implementation requirements and the availability of program information of 5…
Child-Report Data and Assessment of the Social Environment in Schools
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the quality of data collected with the online ESSP for Children from a diverse sample of 1,172 third through fifth graders. METHODS: Mplus confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) procedures for ordinal and clustered data were used. RESULTS: Of 80 original items, 61 loaded on 13 dimensions in a first-order model that had good fit in three random subsamples. Children in grades 3 through 5 may not be reliable reporters about…
She holds my hand” The experiences of foster youth with their natural mentors
The Development and Evaluation of Procedures to Assess Child Self-Report Item Validity Educational and Psychological Measurement
Cognitive pretesting (CP) is an interview methodology for pretesting the validity of items during the development of self-report instruments. This article reports on the development and evaluation of a systematic method to rate self-report item validity performance utilizing CP interview text data. Five raters were trained in the application of that system, resulting in acceptable to substantial levels of interrater agreement. Results from this s…
Psychometric Properties of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children
Journal Article Psychometric Properties of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children Get access Natasha K. Bowen, PhD, MSW Natasha K. Bowen, PhD, MSW assistant professor School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 51–63, https://doi.org/10.10…
Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap Among Elementary School Children
This study examined the level and impact of five types of parent involvement on elementary school children's academic achievement by race/ethnicity, poverty, and parent educational attainment. The sample comprised 415 third through fifth graders who completed the Elementary School Success Profile. Hypotheses from Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital were assessed with t tests, chi-square statistics, and hierarchical regressions. Consistent with …
Knowledge Gaps Among School Staff and the Role of High Quality Ecological Assessments in Schools
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current study was to examine the practice validity of a new ecological assessment instrument for 3(rd) through 5(th) graders in terms of whether it provided school staff with new knowledge about students. METHOD: Pre-assessment knowledge of school staff was compared to data obtained from 21 children and their parents on 29 measures. Data were collected using the Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP). School staff …
Cognitive Pretesting and the Developmental Validity of Child Self-Report Instruments
OBJECTIVE: In the context of the importance of valid self-report measures to research and evidence-based practice in social work, an argument-based approach to validity is presented and the concept of developmental validity introduced. Cognitive development theories are applied to the self-report process of children and cognitive pretesting is reviewed as a methodology to advance the validity of self-report instruments for children. An applicatio…
Neighborhood Social Disorganization, Families, and the Educational Behavior of Adolescents
Using data on 1,757 middle and high school students from a nationally representative sample, relationships among youth perceptions of neighborhood characteristics, parenting processes, and their own school behavior, attendance, and grades were tested using structural equation modeling. A model with direct neighborhood effects on selfreported educational behavior as well as indirect effects mediated through perceptions of supportive parenting and …
When is it appropriate to focus on protection in interventions for adolescents
Assertions about the appropriateness of targeting risk or protective factors in interventions for adolescents must be qualified in terms of the outcomes and populations examined in studies and in terms of how risk and protection are measured. The cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between protection and aggressive behavior found for 388 high-risk adolescents (81.7% male; 50.8% African American/other; average age, 14.5) with serious em…
Effects of Crime and Violence in Neighborhoods and Schools on the School Behavior and Performance of Adolescents
Drawing from a national probability sample of middle and high school students who recently completed The National School Success Profile (SSP), this article focuses on students’reports of their exposure to neighborhood and school danger, and the effects of exposure on their attendance, school behavior, and grades. Males, African Americans, high school students, school lunch recipients, and urban students tended to report higher exposure to enviro…
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical procedure used to identify qualitatively different subgroups within populations who often share certain outward characteristics. The assumption underlying LCA is that membership in unobserved groups (or classes) can be explained by patterns of scores across survey questions, assessment indicators, or scales. The application of LCA is an active area of research and continues to evolve. As more researche…
Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap Among Elementary School Children
This study examined the level and impact of five types of parent involvement on elementary school children's academic achievement by race/ethnicity, poverty, and parent educational attainment. The sample comprised 415 third through fifth graders who completed the Elementary School Success Profile. Hypotheses from Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital were assessed with t tests, chi-square statistics, and hierarchical regressions. Consistent with …
Effects of Crime and Violence in Neighborhoods and Schools on the School Behavior and Performance of Adolescents
Drawing from a national probability sample of middle and high school students who recently completed The National School Success Profile (SSP), this article focuses on students’reports of their exposure to neighborhood and school danger, and the effects of exposure on their attendance, school behavior, and grades. Males, African Americans, high school students, school lunch recipients, and urban students tended to report higher exposure to enviro…
Neighborhood Social Disorganization, Families, and the Educational Behavior of Adolescents
Using data on 1,757 middle and high school students from a nationally representative sample, relationships among youth perceptions of neighborhood characteristics, parenting processes, and their own school behavior, attendance, and grades were tested using structural equation modeling. A model with direct neighborhood effects on selfreported educational behavior as well as indirect effects mediated through perceptions of supportive parenting and …
She holds my hand” The experiences of foster youth with their natural mentors
Conducting Measurement Invariance Tests with Ordinal Data
Objective: The validity of measures across groups is a major concern for social work researchers and practitioners. Many social workers use scales, or sets of questionnaire items, with ordinal response options. However, a review of social work literature indicates the appropriate treatment of ordinal data in measurement invariance tests is rare; only 3 of 57 articles published in 26 social work journals over the past 12 years used proper testing …
Cognitive Pretesting and the Developmental Validity of Child Self-Report Instruments
OBJECTIVE: In the context of the importance of valid self-report measures to research and evidence-based practice in social work, an argument-based approach to validity is presented and the concept of developmental validity introduced. Cognitive development theories are applied to the self-report process of children and cognitive pretesting is reviewed as a methodology to advance the validity of self-report instruments for children. An applicatio…
Child-Report Data and Assessment of the Social Environment in Schools
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the quality of data collected with the online ESSP for Children from a diverse sample of 1,172 third through fifth graders. METHODS: Mplus confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) procedures for ordinal and clustered data were used. RESULTS: Of 80 original items, 61 loaded on 13 dimensions in a first-order model that had good fit in three random subsamples. Children in grades 3 through 5 may not be reliable reporters about…
Knowledge Gaps Among School Staff and the Role of High Quality Ecological Assessments in Schools
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current study was to examine the practice validity of a new ecological assessment instrument for 3(rd) through 5(th) graders in terms of whether it provided school staff with new knowledge about students. METHOD: Pre-assessment knowledge of school staff was compared to data obtained from 21 children and their parents on 29 measures. Data were collected using the Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP). School staff …
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Elementary School Success Profile for Teachers
Objectives: This study examines the factor structure and scale quality of data collected with the online Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) for Teachers from a sample of teachers of 1,145 third through fifth graders. Methods: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using Mplus and weighted least squares means and variances adjusted (WLSMV) estimation took into account the ordinal and clustered nature of the data. Models were tested on four rando…
Psychometric Properties of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children
Journal Article Psychometric Properties of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children Get access Natasha K. Bowen, PhD, MSW Natasha K. Bowen, PhD, MSW assistant professor School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 51–63, https://doi.org/10.10…
Rural Neighborhoods and Child Aggression
Structural equation modeling with latent variables was used to evaluate the direct and mediated effects of a neighborhood risk factor (negative teen behaviors) on the parent‐report aggressive behavior of 213 students in grades 3 through 5 attending a school in a low‐income, rural community. Contagion and social control hypotheses were examined as well as hypotheses about whether the neighborhood served as a microsystem or exosystem for rural pre‐…
Low Effect Sizes of Evidence-Based Programs in School Settings
School practitioners working from an evidence-based practice framework are expected to implement interventions that are effective with students. In the current study, the authors explore the feasibility of that expectation in light of the availability of critical effect size information necessary for making informed intervention decisions. Effect sizes for 51 school-based programs endorsed as effective by authoritative sources were reviewed. Effe…
Effects of Crime and Violence in Neighborhoods and Schools on the School Behavior and Performance of Adolescents
Drawing from a national probability sample of middle and high school students who recently completed The National School Success Profile (SSP), this article focuses on students’reports of their exposure to neighborhood and school danger, and the effects of exposure on their attendance, school behavior, and grades. Males, African Americans, high school students, school lunch recipients, and urban students tended to report higher exposure to enviro…
Neighborhood Social Disorganization, Families, and the Educational Behavior of Adolescents
Using data on 1,757 middle and high school students from a nationally representative sample, relationships among youth perceptions of neighborhood characteristics, parenting processes, and their own school behavior, attendance, and grades were tested using structural equation modeling. A model with direct neighborhood effects on selfreported educational behavior as well as indirect effects mediated through perceptions of supportive parenting and …
When is it appropriate to focus on protection in interventions for adolescents
Assertions about the appropriateness of targeting risk or protective factors in interventions for adolescents must be qualified in terms of the outcomes and populations examined in studies and in terms of how risk and protection are measured. The cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between protection and aggressive behavior found for 388 high-risk adolescents (81.7% male; 50.8% African American/other; average age, 14.5) with serious em…
Cognitive Pretesting and the Developmental Validity of Child Self-Report Instruments
OBJECTIVE: In the context of the importance of valid self-report measures to research and evidence-based practice in social work, an argument-based approach to validity is presented and the concept of developmental validity introduced. Cognitive development theories are applied to the self-report process of children and cognitive pretesting is reviewed as a methodology to advance the validity of self-report instruments for children. An applicatio…
Knowledge Gaps Among School Staff and the Role of High Quality Ecological Assessments in Schools
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current study was to examine the practice validity of a new ecological assessment instrument for 3(rd) through 5(th) graders in terms of whether it provided school staff with new knowledge about students. METHOD: Pre-assessment knowledge of school staff was compared to data obtained from 21 children and their parents on 29 measures. Data were collected using the Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP). School staff …
The Development and Evaluation of Procedures to Assess Child Self-Report Item Validity Educational and Psychological Measurement
Cognitive pretesting (CP) is an interview methodology for pretesting the validity of items during the development of self-report instruments. This article reports on the development and evaluation of a systematic method to rate self-report item validity performance utilizing CP interview text data. Five raters were trained in the application of that system, resulting in acceptable to substantial levels of interrater agreement. Results from this s…
Psychometric Properties of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children
Journal Article Psychometric Properties of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children Get access Natasha K. Bowen, PhD, MSW Natasha K. Bowen, PhD, MSW assistant professor School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 51–63, https://doi.org/10.10…
Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap Among Elementary School Children
This study examined the level and impact of five types of parent involvement on elementary school children's academic achievement by race/ethnicity, poverty, and parent educational attainment. The sample comprised 415 third through fifth graders who completed the Elementary School Success Profile. Hypotheses from Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital were assessed with t tests, chi-square statistics, and hierarchical regressions. Consistent with …
She holds my hand” The experiences of foster youth with their natural mentors
Evidence-Based Programs in School Settings
In spite of multi-disciplinary calls for the use of evidence-based practice in schools, empirically supported interventions are not being implemented in most schools. To increase the use of evidence-based programs in schools, it may be necessary first to identify characteristics of those programs and other factors that represent barriers to their use. This study examined implementation requirements and the availability of program information of 5…
Child-Report Data and Assessment of the Social Environment in Schools
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the quality of data collected with the online ESSP for Children from a diverse sample of 1,172 third through fifth graders. METHODS: Mplus confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) procedures for ordinal and clustered data were used. RESULTS: Of 80 original items, 61 loaded on 13 dimensions in a first-order model that had good fit in three random subsamples. Children in grades 3 through 5 may not be reliable reporters about…
Structural Equation Modeling
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has long been used in social work research, but the writing on the topic is typically fragmented and highly technical. The chapters demonstrate two SEM programs with distinct user interfaces and capabilities (Amos and Mplus) with enough specificity that readers can conduct their own analyses without consulting additional resources. Examples from social work literature highlight best practices for the specificati…
Low Effect Sizes of Evidence-Based Programs in School Settings
School practitioners working from an evidence-based practice framework are expected to implement interventions that are effective with students. In the current study, the authors explore the feasibility of that expectation in light of the availability of critical effect size information necessary for making informed intervention decisions. Effect sizes for 51 school-based programs endorsed as effective by authoritative sources were reviewed. Effe…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Elementary School Success Profile for Teachers
Objectives: This study examines the factor structure and scale quality of data collected with the online Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) for Teachers from a sample of teachers of 1,145 third through fifth graders. Methods: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using Mplus and weighted least squares means and variances adjusted (WLSMV) estimation took into account the ordinal and clustered nature of the data. Models were tested on four rando…
A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Elementary School Success Profile Model of Assessment and Prevention
The Elementary School Success Profile Model of Assessment and Prevention (ESSP MAP) is an assessment and intervention strategy designed to improve student academic performance and behavior. The current analysis uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the relationship between a 3-year implementation of the ESSP MAP and aggregate academic outcomes. Students in one 3rd grade cohort (2007–2008) from 4 schools in 1 district received the interventi…
Rural Neighborhoods and Child Aggression
Structural equation modeling with latent variables was used to evaluate the direct and mediated effects of a neighborhood risk factor (negative teen behaviors) on the parent‐report aggressive behavior of 213 students in grades 3 through 5 attending a school in a low‐income, rural community. Contagion and social control hypotheses were examined as well as hypotheses about whether the neighborhood served as a microsystem or exosystem for rural pre‐…
Conducting Measurement Invariance Tests with Ordinal Data
Objective: The validity of measures across groups is a major concern for social work researchers and practitioners. Many social workers use scales, or sets of questionnaire items, with ordinal response options. However, a review of social work literature indicates the appropriate treatment of ordinal data in measurement invariance tests is rare; only 3 of 57 articles published in 26 social work journals over the past 12 years used proper testing …
Body Disapproval as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Risk Factors and Eating Disordered Behaviors Among American Adjudicated Male Youth
Cross-national validity of the Beck Hopelessness Scale for children and adolescents
A sense of hopelessness is common but under-identified among poor children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Given the concomitant inadequate screening, assessment, and a lack of culturally and developmentally appropriate measures in much of SSA, identifying reliable and valid measures of hopelessness is needed. One promising candidate, the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), has undergone limited evaluation in the region and none with non-adult population…
Difference-in-Differences as an Alternative to Pretest–Posttest Regression for Social Work Intervention Evaluation and Research
Nonrandomized evaluation designs are an important part of social work research because randomization is not always feasible in social work settings. Although randomly assigned groups are assumed to be equivalent, nonrandomly assigned groups are not. In nonrandomized settings, designs with multiple waves are ideal, but two-wave designs are still widely used. A common method for estimating a treatment effect in nonrandom two-wave designs is the pre…
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical procedure used to identify qualitatively different subgroups within populations who often share certain outward characteristics. The assumption underlying LCA is that membership in unobserved groups (or classes) can be explained by patterns of scores across survey questions, assessment indicators, or scales. The application of LCA is an active area of research and continues to evolve. As more researche…
The effect on high school drop-out of a middle school relevance intervention
The disengagement that leads to school dropout may start as early as middle school, but may be interrupted by motivational interventions. One approach is to promote the relevance of content through explanations and demonstrations of the value of this content to students’ futures. CareerStart is an intervention that provides teachers prepackaged lessons for middle school math, English language arts, science, and social studies, which connects cont…
Psychology (20 obras) · Developmental psychology (10 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 obras) · Statistics (7 obras) · Structural equation modeling (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 obras) · Mathematics (6 obras) · Parental Involvement in Education (6 obras)