Higher order cognitive skills (inference, perspective taking, comprehension monitoring) fit a bifactor structure with a general cross-language factor and language-specific factors in English and Spanish¶

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q3 i? The general factor captured 61% of common variance (ECV = .61) and was reliable (ω = .85), while the English and Spanish specific factors were not reliable (ω = .49 and .43). → Kim Young-Suk Grace 2022

Evidence¶

Kim Young-Suk Grace 2022¶

Kim Young-Suk Grace, Wolters Alissa, Mercado Janet, & Quinn Jamie. (2022). Crosslinguistic Transfer of Higher Order Cognitive Skills and Their Roles in Writing for English-Spanish Dual Language Learners. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000516

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CFA of inference, theory of mind, and comprehension monitoring tasks in English and Spanish for the 317-child sample. The article reports ECV = .61 for the general factor, coefficient omega = .85, and that the language-specific factors "were not reliable (ω = .49 and ω = .43, respectively)".

"The explained common variance (ECV, Riese, 2012) for the higher order cognitive general factor was .61, indicating that 61% of the common variance among the measured cognitive skills was attributable to the general factor."

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