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In the first chapter of this book, I presented a path model on four variables involving teacher-student interactions, engagement and achievement at school. This chapter uses data from 45 studies who reported (a subset of) the correlations between these variables and the percentage of students with low socio-economic status in the classroom. Using the metaSEM package, it is illustrated how the data can be prepared for analysis, how to fit a fixed and random effects Stage 1 model to the correlation matrices, and how to specify the hypothesized Stage 2 model. Models are fitted to the overall data and to subgroups with low versus high socio-economic status. All steps that have to be taken to perform the analyses are discussed, as well as the relevant output.
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Jak, S. (2015). Fitting a Path Model with the Two-Stage Approach. In: Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modelling. SpringerBriefs in Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27174-3_5
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