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Studying classroom climate effects in the context of multi-level structural equation modelling: an application-focused theoretical discussion and empirical demonstration
International Journal of Research & Method in Education Pub Date : 2020-08-07 , DOI: 10.1080/1743727x.2020.1791071
Lisa Bardach 1 , Takuya Yanagida 2 , Marko Lüftenegger 2, 3
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ABSTRACT The present article focuses on classroom climate effects in the context of multi-level structural equation modelling. We first discuss the need to appropriately model classroom climate as a classroom-level construct. We then analyse the effects of classroom climate (academic goal structures and social goal structures) on students’ motivation in terms of achievement goals (mastery goals) in an empirical demonstration. This study relies on doubly latent multi-level structural equation modelling and draws on a sample of 1,645 Austrian secondary school students (52.8% girls, mean age = 14.32 years, SD = 1.42) from 83 mathematics classes. In addition, we address the question of whether and to what extent the results and interpretation differ if single-level analyses that solely account for the nested data structure by correcting standard errors are employed. Comparing the multi-level structural equation modelling results to the single-level results underlines the necessity of adequately disentangling effects at different levels. Our work is intended to raise awareness of how methodological choices affect substantive interpretations in classroom climate research, and to inform and provide guidance to (applied) researchers interested in studying the effects of classroom climate using multi-level structural equation modelling.

中文翻译:

在多级结构方程建模的背景下研究教室气候效应:以应用为中心的理论讨论和经验论证

摘要本文重点关注多级结构方程建模环境中的教室气候影响。我们首先讨论将教室环境适当建模为教室层次结构的必要性。然后,我们通过实证论证分析了课堂气氛(学术目标结构和社会目标结构)对学生动机的影响,这些目标包括成就目标(掌握目标)。这项研究依赖于双重潜在多级结构方程建模,并从83个数学班的1645名奥地利中学学生(52.8%的女孩,平均年龄= 14.32岁,SD = 1.42)中抽取了样本。此外,如果采用仅通过校正标准错误来解释嵌套数据结构的单级分析,我们将解决以下问题:结果和解释是否以及在何种程度上有所不同。将多级结构方程建模结果与单级结果进行比较,强调了在不同级别上充分解开效果的必要性。我们的工作旨在提高人们对方法选择如何影响课堂气候研究中的实质性解释的认识,并为有兴趣使用多层结构方程模型研究课堂气候影响的(应用)研究人员提供信息并提供指导。将多级结构方程建模结果与单级结果进行比较,强调了在不同级别上充分解开效果的必要性。我们的工作旨在提高人们对方法选择如何影响课堂气候研究中的实质性解释的认识,并为有兴趣使用多层结构方程模型研究课堂气候影响的(应用)研究人员提供信息并提供指导。将多层次的结构方程建模结果与单层次的结果进行比较,强调了在不同层次上充分解开效应的必要性。我们的工作旨在提高人们对方法选择如何影响课堂气候研究中的实质性解释的认识,并为有兴趣使用多层结构方程模型研究课堂气候影响的(应用)研究人员提供信息并提供指导。
更新日期:2020-08-07
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