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Underlying Neurocognitive and Achievement Factors and Their Relationship to Student Background Characteristics

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This chapter presents additional analyses investigating the underlying factors represented in the assessments performed for the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit as well as the relationships between these factors and background characteristics of the sample of deaf college students evaluated for the study. Ten factors were generated using a Principal Components Factor Analysis with Varimax rotation. The factors and the measures which load on them are discussed. Additionally, MANOVAs were performed to investigate relationships between a set of background variables and the first four factors produced in the above analysis. The resulting data are discussed as are the potential translational applications of the data generated by the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit Project.

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  1. Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning, Gallaudet University, SLCC 1223, 800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC, 20002, USA

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  2. Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC, 20002, USA

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Allen, T., Morere, D.A. (2012). Underlying Neurocognitive and Achievement Factors and Their Relationship to Student Background Characteristics. In: Morere, D., Allen, T. (eds) Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5269-0_13

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