Understanding correlates of change by modeling individual differences in growth |
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Authors: | David R. Rogosa John B. Willett |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Education, Stanford University, 94305 Stanford, CA |
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Abstract: | The study of correlates of change is the investigation of systematic individual differences in growth. Our representation of systematic individual differences in growth is built up in two parts: (a) a model for individual growth and, (b) a model for the dependence of parameters in the individual growth models on individual characteristics. First, explicit representations of correlates of change are constructed for various models of individual growth. Second, for the special case of initial status as a correlate of change, properties of collections of growth curves provide new results on the relation between change and initial status. Third, the shortcomings of previous approaches to the assessment of correlates of change are demonstrated. In particular, correlations of residual change measures with exogenous individual characteristics are shown to be poor indicators of systematic individual differences in growth.The research reported here was supported by a grant from The Spencer Foundation to the senior author and by the Study of Stanford and the Schools. |
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Keywords: | longitudinal analysis measurement of change |
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