Bruce Thompson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3687100 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bruce Thompson |
| PRENOMES | Bruce |
| SOBRENOME | Thompson |
| ASSINATURA | THOMPSON B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Texas A&M University and Baylor College of Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5885-0652 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 127 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Core Practices in Systemic Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems
Core Competencies in Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems
Knowledge of and Intention to Participate in Physical Activity Programs and Their Associated Sociodemographic Factors in People with High Blood Pressure in a Rural Area of Bangladesh
This initial investigation aimed to investigate the knowledge of the health benefits of physical activity (PA) and attitudes towards participation in PA. The study recruited 307 people aged 30-75 years with hypertension as part of a cluster randomized controlled trial from a rural area in Bangladesh. Of the 307 participants, 135 participated less than 2.5 h of physical activity per week, from which we collected data on attitudes toward PA. Regres…
Understanding the sociodemographic factors associated with intention to receive SMS messages for health information in a rural area of Bangladesh
A significant proportion of people are unable to read SMS. However, people are willing to receive and pay to receive SMS for health information. Education and awareness programs should be conducted among targeted groups, including people with low education and women
Factors associated with antihypertensive medication use and blood pressure control in a rural area in Bangladesh
Of the total participants, 144 (46.9%) were on antihypertensive medications. After multivariate adjustment, binary logistic regression revealed that employees (odds ratio, (95% confidence interval (CI)) (OR 3.58, 95%CI 1.38-9.28) compared to farmers, and people with diabetes (OR 2.43, 95%CI 1.13-5.26) compared to people without diabetes were associated with a higher proportion of antihypertensive medications use. Of 144 participants on antihypert…
Standardization of Spirometry 2019 Update. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Technical Statement
Combahee River Collective Statement
Leslie Bow, Avtar Brah, Mishuana Goeman, Diane Harriford, Analouise Keating, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Laura Pérez, Becky Thompson, Zenaida Peterson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Shari M. Huhndorf, Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 164-189
Replicability Analyses
Researchers have traditionally but erroneously presumed that statistical significance tests evaluate the replicability of results. But p values evaluate the probability of the sample, assuming the null hypothesis perfectly describes the population, and not the probability of the population. Therefore, p values do not bear upon questions of replicability. As Cohen noted, the statistical significance test “does not tell us what we want to know, and…
Effect Sizes
Effect sizes are indices of practical significance that may be used either in place of, or as a complement to, statistical significance tests, which have historically been emphasized by sociologists as the sine qua non of empirical research. Effect sizes quantify the extent to which sample results diverge from the expectations specified within the null hypothesis. Thus, if sample results exactly correspond to the null hypothesis, the effect size …
Factor Analysis
Factor analysis is a statistical method for empirically identifying the structure underlying measured or factored entities (e.g., variables). The three purposes for which factor analysis can be used are: (1) empirically creating a theory of structure (e.g., Cattell's structure of intellect model); (2) evaluating whether factored entities (e.g., variables) cluster in a theoretically expected way (e.g., construct validity evaluation); and (3) estim…
Deductively Valid, Inductively Valid, and Retroductively Valid Syllogisms
Charles S. Peirce suggested that a formal distinction between his three types of argumentation, deduction, induction, and retroduction, could be drawn using syllogistic figures. However, he never developed the concept of formal validity for non-deductive arguments beyond that point. His failure to do so may have been due in part to inadequacies in the theory of syllogisms as it was known at the time. Using an expanded syllogistic, with quantifier…
The Cinematic Cold War
Journal Article The Cinematic Cold War Get access Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood, Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. 312 pp. $34.95. Bruce Thompson Bruce Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issue 3, June 2014, Pages 689–692, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu017 Published: 23 April 2014
Research Synthesis
Propagation of Misinformation About Frequencies of RFTs/RCTs in Education
In this article, the authors examine the interconnections among education researchers’ misconceptions about the quality of the education research literature. Specifically, the authors catalog the sequence of events that, when taken together with a series of contradictory graphs presented by influential scholars in prominent settings, may have gratuitously damaged the already fragile reputation of education research as a field. The authors’ “take-…
Things (We Now Believe) We Know
The present article responds briefly to the comments, in this issue of Educational Researcher, of Petrosino and of Robinson to the “Propagation of Misinformation About Frequencies of RFTs/RCTs in Education: A Cautionary Tale.” The authors emphasize that the context of how the quality of education research is perceived both within and outside the field creates the milieu for evaluating the ultimate impacts of misinformation about that quality. The…
Score Reliability
The present study was conducted to characterize (a) the features of the thousands of primary reports synthesized in 47 reliability generalization (RG) measurement meta-analysis studies and (b) typical methodological practice within the RG literature to date. With respect to the treatment of score reliability in the literature, in an astounding 54.6% of the 12,994 primary reports authors did not even mention reliability! Furthermore, in 15.7% of t…
Statistical Techniques Used in Published Articles
The purpose of the present study is to provide a historical account and metasynthesis of which statistical techniques are most frequently used in the fields of education and psychology. Six articles reviewing the American Educational Research Journal from 1969 to 1997 and five articles reviewing the psychological literature from 1948 to 2001 resulted in a total number of 17,698 techniques recorded from the 12,012 articles reviewed. No prior study…
Matrix Summaries Improve Research Reports
Correlation matrices and standard deviations are the building blocks of many of the commonly conducted analyses in published research, and AERA and APA reporting standards recommend their inclusion when reporting research results. The authors argue that the inclusion of correlation/covariance matrices, standard deviations, and means can enhance findings in education and psychology by permitting secondary researchers to (a) conduct commonly utiliz…
Extending Improvement-Over-Chance I -Index Effect Size Simulation Studies to Cover Some Small-Sample Cases
All effect sizes are sensitive to design flaws and the failure to meet analytic assumptions. But some effect sizes appear to be more robust to assumption violations (e.g., homogeneity of variance). The present study extended prior Monte Carlo research by exploring the robustness of group overlap I indices at the relatively small sample sizes used in some research. I effects are statistically appealing because these indices can be applied across (…
Working beyond the glass ceiling
Recently in England, women have been successful in obtaining managerial responsibilities in the field of teacher training. In this setting at least, it could be argued that the glass ceiling that has kept women in lower‐paid and lower status posts has been shattered. In order to explore this proposition from the perspective of those who work as managers in teacher training, this paper draws on a series of in‐depth interviews with eleven women man…
In a New Land
Journal Article In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration Get access In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. By Foner Nancy. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii, 325 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn0-8147-2745-X. Paper, $22.00, isbn0-8147-2746-8.) Bryan Thompson Bryan Thompson Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93…
Research in Special Education
This article sets the context for the development of research quality indicators and guidelines for evidence of effective practices provided by different methodologies. The current conceptualization of scientific research in education and the complexity of conducting research in special education settings underlie the development of quality indicators. Programs of research in special education may be viewed as occurring in stages: moving from ini…
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
provides a concise (162 pages of text) and basic overview of two disciplines of assessing structure: exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). As Thompson explains, the book was written ‘‘to strike a happy medium between accuracy and completeness versus over-whelming technical complexity’ ’ (p. ix). Example data sets are used throughout the book to dem-onstrate important concepts. It must be noted, however, that th…
How to Estimate and Interpret Various Effect Sizes.
The present article presents a tutorial on how to estimate and interpret various effect sizes. The 5th edition
Black womanhood
Lenders to the ExhibitionForeword / Brian P. Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid SchildkroutPlates Part II. Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary4. The Black Female Body, the …
Multiracial Feminism
In the last several years, a number of histories have been published that chronicle the emergence and contributions of Second Wave Although initially eager to read and teach from these histories, I have found myself increasingly concerned about the extent to which they provide a version of Second Wave history that Chela Sandoval refers to as feminism.' This feminism is white led, marginalizes the activism and world views of women of color, focuse…
What Future Quantitative Social Science Research Could Look Like
An improved quantitative science would emphasize the use of confidence intervals (CIs), and especially CIs for effect sizes. This article reviews some definitions and issues related to developing these intervals. Confidence intervals for effect sizes are especially valuable because they facilitate meta-analytic thinking and the interpretation of intervals via comparison with the effect intervals from related prior studies. Several recommendations…
Ethical dimensions in trauma research
Characterizing Measurement Error in Scores Across Studies
T. Vacha-Haase (1998) proposed her “reliability generalization” methodology to characterize (a) typical score reliability for a measure across studies, (b) the variability of score reliabilities, and (c) what measurement protocol features predict the variability in score reliabilities across administrations. The present article provides recommendations on how to conduct these studies
Combahee River Collective Statement
Leslie Bow, Avtar Brah, Mishuana Goeman, Diane Harriford, Analouise Keating, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Laura Pérez, Becky Thompson, Zenaida Peterson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Shari M. Huhndorf, Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 164-189
Matrix Summaries Improve Research Reports
Correlation matrices and standard deviations are the building blocks of many of the commonly conducted analyses in published research, and AERA and APA reporting standards recommend their inclusion when reporting research results. The authors argue that the inclusion of correlation/covariance matrices, standard deviations, and means can enhance findings in education and psychology by permitting secondary researchers to (a) conduct commonly utiliz…
Statistical Significance, Result Importance, and Result Generalizability
(1989). Statistical Significance, Result Importance, and Result Generalizability: Three Noteworthy But Somewhat Different Issues. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 2-6
In a New Land
Journal Article In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration Get access In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. By Foner Nancy. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii, 325 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn0-8147-2745-X. Paper, $22.00, isbn0-8147-2746-8.) Bryan Thompson Bryan Thompson Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93…
Second-Order Factor Structure of the MBTI
Factor adequacy and other results based on data from 359 college students provided positive evidence regarding the validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Research news and Comment
A National Survey of Aera Members' Perceptions of Statistical Significance Tests and Other Statistical Issues
Kathleen C. Mittag, Bruce Thompson, A National Survey of AERA Members' Perceptions of Statistical Significance Tests and Other Statistical Issues, Educational Researcher, Vol. 29, No. 4 (May, 2000), pp. 14-20
Why Won't Stepwise Methods Die
(1989). Why Won't Stepwise Methods Die? Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 146-148
Children's Beliefs About Sources of Health
Four analyses of data provided by 876 elementary school children strongly supported the reliability and factorial validity of the revised Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scales
Propagation of Misinformation About Frequencies of RFTs/RCTs in Education
In this article, the authors examine the interconnections among education researchers’ misconceptions about the quality of the education research literature. Specifically, the authors catalog the sequence of events that, when taken together with a series of contradictory graphs presented by influential scholars in prominent settings, may have gratuitously damaged the already fragile reputation of education research as a field. The authors’ “take-…
Score Reliability
The present study was conducted to characterize (a) the features of the thousands of primary reports synthesized in 47 reliability generalization (RG) measurement meta-analysis studies and (b) typical methodological practice within the RG literature to date. With respect to the treatment of score reliability in the literature, in an astounding 54.6% of the 12,994 primary reports authors did not even mention reliability! Furthermore, in 15.7% of t…
Equitable Measurement of School Effectiveness
This article examines a value-added model to rate schools, taking into account varying characteristics of students entering the schools, including poverty, race, mobility, and stability. The model uses regression to separate the influence of demographics that are outside the schools’ control from those under school control. This value-added model leads to school ratings that compare actual performance to performance predicted by poverty rates. Ev…
Further Comments on Statistical Significance Tests
This article highlights selected areas of both agreement and disagreement with Biskin's (1998) comments on the Vacha-Haase and Nilsson (1998) article about statistical significance tests
Multicultural Education and the Sociological Imagination
Core Practices in Systemic Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems
Factor Analysis
Factor analysis is a statistical method for empirically identifying the structure underlying measured or factored entities (e.g., variables). The three purposes for which factor analysis can be used are: (1) empirically creating a theory of structure (e.g., Cattell's structure of intellect model); (2) evaluating whether factored entities (e.g., variables) cluster in a theoretically expected way (e.g., construct validity evaluation); and (3) estim…
Working beyond the glass ceiling
Recently in England, women have been successful in obtaining managerial responsibilities in the field of teacher training. In this setting at least, it could be argued that the glass ceiling that has kept women in lower‐paid and lower status posts has been shattered. In order to explore this proposition from the perspective of those who work as managers in teacher training, this paper draws on a series of in‐depth interviews with eleven women man…
Alternative Measures of Jungian Personality Constructs
Psychometric properties of 2 alternative Jungian personality measures, the Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory (Singer, Loomis, Kirkhart, & Kirkhart, 1996a, 1996b) and the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (Thompson, 1996), were evaluated
Prerotation and Postrotation Eigenvalues Should not be Confused
(1989). Prerotation and Postrotation Eigenvalues Should not be Confused: A Reminder. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 114-116
Asking “What if” Questions About Significance Tests
A Replication Bootstrap Analysis of the Structure Underlying Perceptions of Stereotypic Love
A bootstrap factor analysis was used to test the validity of the Love Relationships Scale by combining the data from earlier studies (Borrello & Thompson, 1987; Thompson & Borrello, 1987a, 1987b) with data from an additional 51 subjects recruited for this study. The results provide insight into the structure underlying perceptions of love relationships and suggest that a g-factor phenomenon involving obsessive thoughts dominates the experience of…
Atlas of the Climate of Africa
The Dramatic Irony of Fate
The Relationship of a Measure of Structure of Intellect Abilities and Academic Achievement
The usefulness of the Structure of Intellect (SOI) Learning Abilities Test for predicting reading and arithmetic achievement of elementary school pupils as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) was investigated using regression analyses. Scores on the two instruments were compared for a sample of one hundred forty-five students. The composite of nine SOI ability scores hypothesized to be related to reading achievement was correlated m…
Canon
The paper presents an overview of several statistics useful in interpreting variates constructed by using canonical correlation analysis. A program which calculates coefficients not typically provided by program packages is then discussed. An illustrative example of program output is furnished
Comparison of Two Strategies for Collecting Q-Sort Data
Factor analysis is frequently a useful research methodology, particularly when it is applied in validity studies or as a prelude to various analysis of variance procedures and their analogues. This study compared two strategies for implementing one factor analytic technique, Q-technique factor analysis. The results suggest that the data-collection strategy which is employed can dramatically affect results. It is argued that a mediated-ranking pro…
Measuring Drug-Related Attitudes
There are relatively few instruments that measure attitudes toward both drug users and drug usage, including abuse of prescription drugs. This study was concerned with the measurement charcteristics of an instrument which can be employed for this purpose. Subjects were 347 teachers and college students. Analysis included calculation of factor reliability, in variance, and validity coefficients. The results suggest that the attitude items can be e…
Predicting Special Needs from Information Available at Birth
This study investigated relationships between maternal-neonatal contact condition, mother's age and education, and child's sex with child's placement in special education or retention in grade in the regular classroom. Subjects were 76 children born a decade ago at two hospitals with contrasting procedures for maternal-neonatal care. Discriminant analysis indicated that sex of child and maternal-neonatal contact condition best predicted special p…
Stress and Counseling Needs of Police Officers
An increasing number of counselors are finding employment in nonschool agencies such as police departments. This article presents research conducted to explore police officers' perceptions of counseling and the stress they feel. Results indicate that a sizable portion of officers would initiate helping relationships if in-house counseling services were available. The authors discuss the implications for revision of counselor education curricula
A Program which Computes a Multivariate Analog of Omega Squared
The paper presents an overview of an effect size estimate which can be useful in interpreting multivariate statistical results. The estimate is not typically provided by program packages. A program which calculates the corrected version of the estimate is discussed, and an illustrative example of some of the program's output is presented
Validity of the Rokeach Value Survey
The study evaluated the construct validity of the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS). Rokeach has presented factor analytic evidence that his instrument has the theorized dimensions. However, his results were based on analysis of ipsative data, and therefore, must be cautiously interpreted. The subjects in this study provided ratings of the values employed on the RVS, or normative data, which may be more suitable for factor analytic investigations. The o…
Franz Grillparzer (Twayne's World Authors Series 637)
Research on school use of program evaluation
Construct Validity of the Divergent Production Subtests from the Structure-of-Intellect Learning Abilities Test
The Structure of Intellect Learning Abilities (SOI-LA) test has been widely recommended for use in placement, diagnostic, and prescriptive applications. However, the validity of the test has not been fully explored. This study investigated the construct validity of the three divergent production subtests on the SOI-LA test. Subjects were 205 sixth-grade pupils from New York and Louisiana schools. The evidence generally supported the validity of t…
Quantitative Analysis of Previous Research on Use of Evaluation
The study reports effect-size computations for previous quantitative studies of the use of information on program evaluation, with a view toward identifying patterns in previous results and possible directions for further research. It is suggested that more non-simulation studies and more studies using non-university samples are needed. Studies investigating the possible influences of context on use of evaluation are also needed. Although this li…
Canonical Correlation Analysis
Cognitive Styles as Mediating Variables in Inferential Comprehension
THE STUDY investigated cognitive styles as mediating variables in comprehension processes. Subjects were fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students. Latent trait inferential comprehension scores were calculated for subjects based upon responses to passagedependent inferential reading questions involving both schema-familiar and schemaunfamiliar passages. Results indicated that the three tested cognitive styles do apparently mediate comprehension p…
The Importance of Structure Coefficients in Regression Research
Multiple regression analysis is frequently and increasingly being employed in both experimental and non-experimental research. However, when data include predictor variables that are correlated, either unavoidably or due to conscious design choices, some regression results can become difficult to interpret. The paper presents an actual study to provide a heuristic demonstration that structure coefficients may be helpful in these cases
Franz Grillparzer
Construct Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is widely recognized as an important measure of normal or non-pathological variations in personality. However, the construct validity of the measure has not been clearly established using factor analytic techniques. The present study investigated the structure and item performance of the instrument using data from 359 college students. Factor analysis was applied to the 95 scored MBTI items. Factor adequacy …
Anova versus Regression Analysis of ATI Designs
The theory indicating that general linear model methods can be superior to ANOVA analogs is well known. However, the magnitudes of differences induced by different analysis choices has not been empirically investigated. The paper reports a Monte Carlo study of these differences over nine combinations of three sample sizes and three population parameter effect sizes. Generally, ANOVA methods tended somewhat to overestimate smaller effect sizes and…
Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan
Bertolt Brecht schrieb diese wunderbare Parabel in krassen Gegensatzen: Bosheit und Gute. Harte und Weichheit. Schlaue und Dummheit. Cleverness und Gutglaubigkeit. Mann und Frau Schwarz und weis, Shui Ta und Shen Te. Hinter der didaktischen Fassade des Stucks lasst Brecht den Humor aber nicht ausen vor, entlarvt den Mechanismus als Kunstgriff, und legt hinter dem Getriebe der Figuren ihre Widerspruchlichkeit blos. So ist Komik bei Brecht mehr als…
Second-Order Factor Structure of the MBTI
Factor adequacy and other results based on data from 359 college students provided positive evidence regarding the validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Factor Structure of the Bem Sex Role Inventory
The factor structure of the Bem Sex Role Inventory when used with adolescents was investigated. Empirical comparison of actual with expected results supported the measure's validity
Concurrent Validity of a Love Relationships Scale
Based on data from 260 adults, the present study investigated the structure of stereotypically defined love, and the concurrent validity of a measure of beliefs about this love. The results from several analyses suggest that stereotypic love is predominantly a "g"' factor phenomenon in which obsessive thought processes are distinctive. The concurrent validity analyses suggest that the factors underlying responses to items from the Love Relationsh…
Factor Structure of a Children's Health Locus of Control Measure
The present study evaluated the validity of a revised version of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) Scales when the measure is employed with older elementary school children. Confirmatory maximum-likelihood factor analysis employed data from 876 students. The factor structure of the measure matched expected structure fairly closely, although a few deviations from expectation were noted. Thus, the results supported the validity of…
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