Explanatory Factor analysis

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What is stated first?
The number of pps and what questionnaire they completed
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to do what?
rate their attitudes concerning the purpose of learning in higher education
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The items were rated how?
State how the questionaires were rated
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And what?
What the marks mean
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What should be included?
What questions were included in the questionnaire
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Means and standard deviations should be reported but what should be suggested
Whether there is a skew or not in the main categories
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What would this be equal to?
Across all items (Max/min variance = 1.88)
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Participants to items ratio
>95:1
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Minimum number of pps
100
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Communalities
Less than .5, the minimum number of pps exceeded the required 500 minimum
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Bartlett's test of sphericity
P
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What does this confirm?
R matrix rather than identity matrix
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State what rotation was used?
Orthogonal rotation or oblique: Orthogonal: No correlations, Oblique: Correlations. Indicates that a 2 factor model should be used
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Thus what would the minimum recommended ratio of items should be what?
4:1 and the minimum required ratio of pps to factors was exceeded >380:1
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What should be then stated?
K1 rule, Two factor solution (scree test), observed eignenvalues stopped exceeding the random eigenvalues at 2 factors.
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What do you then state?
How much the extracted factor accounted for vairance
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Then what is stated?
Item loadings and cross loading
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