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Application of a Simplex Process Model to Six Years of Cognitive Development in Four Demographic Groups

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Randolph D. Park

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Charles K. Parsons

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

A simplex process model of the cross-lagged cor relation paradigm was applied to 16 tests ad ministered to samples of black and white males and black and white females in Grades 5, 7, 9, and 11. Listening, a measure of aural comprehension, con sistently anticipated individual differences on an in tellectual composite in all four groups. The other achievement test of the STEP series anticipated in dividual differences on the so-called aptitude tests of SCAT, which in turn anticipated individual dif ferences on the narrow information scores obtained from the Test of General Information (TGI). This model may be more powerful in revealing lags than the traditional methods of analyzing cross-lagged differences in longitudinal data. The model does not require stationarity and can produce a meaningful outcome in its absence.

Applied Psychological Measurement, Vol. 3, No. 1, 51-64 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/014662167900300107


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