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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Kit-Tai Hau is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research spans primarily the social sciences and psychology, with significant focus on education and related subfields.

The main fields of study for Kit-Tai Hau include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

The subfields they have worked in comprise:

  • Education
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistics and Probability

The topics of their research encompass:

  • Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • School Choice and Performance

Kit-Tai Hau has published in several academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Educational and Psychological Measurement
  • Education and Information Technologies
  • Multivariate Behavioral Research
  • Learning and Instruction

Significant recent papers authored by or in collaboration with Kit-Tai Hau include:

  • Effects of Cross-loadings on Determining the Number of Factors to Retain (2020), Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement: A multilevel moderated mediation model (2022), Learning and Instruction
  • Moderation of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect: Juxtaposition of Evolutionary (Darwinian-Economic) and Achievement Motivation Theory Predictions Based on a Delphi Approach (2021), Educational Psychology Review
  • Performance of Coefficient Alpha and Its Alternatives: Effects of Different Types of Non-Normality (2022), Educational and Psychological Measurement
  • Automated and interactive game-based assessment of critical thinking (2021), Education and Information Technologies

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following researchers:

  • Zhonglin Wen
  • Leifeng Xiao
  • Dan Wang
  • Luyang Guo
  • Lihong Ma

Kit-Tai Hau was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2014.

Best Publications

  • In Search of Golden Rules: Comment on Hypothesis-Testing Approaches to Setting Cutoff Values for Fit Indexes and Dangers in Overgeneralizing Hu and Bentler's (1999) Findings

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;Zhonglin Wen

  • Is More Ever Too Much? The Number of Indicators per Factor in Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;John R. Balla;David Grayson

  • Structural equation models of latent interactions: evaluation of alternative estimation strategies and indicator construction.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Zhonglin Wen;Kit-Tai Hau

  • An evaluation of incremental fit indices: A clarification of mathematical and empirical properties.

    Herbert W. Marsh;John R. Balla;Kit-Tai Hau

  • Big-Fish--Little-Pond effect on academic self-concept: A cross-cultural (26-country) test of the negative effects of academically selective schools.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau

  • Goodness of fit in structural equation models

    Herbert W Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;David Grayson

  • OECD's brief self-report measure of educational psychology's most useful affective constructs : cross-cultural, psychometric comparisons across 25 countries

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;Cordula Artelt;Jürgen Baumert

  • Assessing Goodness of Fit: Is Parsimony Always Desirable?

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau

  • The use of item parcels in structural equation modelling: Non-normal data and small sample sizes

    Kit-Tai Hau;Herbert W. Marsh

  • The Big-fish–little-pond-effect Stands Up to Critical Scrutiny: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Future Research

    Herbert Warren Marsh;Marjorie Seaton;Ulrich Trautwein;Oliver Ludtke

  • Longitudinal multilevel models of the big-fish-little-pond effect on academic self-concept: counterbalancing contrast and reflected-glory effects in Hong Kong schools.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Chit-Kwong Kong;Kit-Tai Hau

  • Who took the "x" out of expectancy-value theory? A psychological mystery, a substantive-methodological synergy, and a cross-national generalization.

    Benjamin Nagengast;Herbert Marsh;Herbert Marsh;L Scalas;L Scalas;Man Xu;Man Xu

  • Explaining Paradoxical Relations Between Academic Self-Concepts and Achievements: Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Internal/External Frame of Reference Predictions Across 26 Countries.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau

  • Multilevel Causal Ordering of Academic Self-Concept and Achievement: Influence of Language of Instruction (English Compared With Chinese) for Hong Kong Students

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;Chit-Kwong Kong

  • Late immersion and language of instruction in Hong Kong high schools : Achievement growth in language and nonlanguage subjects

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;Chit-Kwong Kong

  • Applications of latent-variable models in educational psychology: The need for methodological-substantive synergies.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau

  • Perceptions of parenting in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Sex differences and societal differences.

    Thomas J. Berndt;Ping Chung Cheung;Sing Lau;Kit-Tai Hau

  • Structural equation models of latent interaction and quadratic effects.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Zhonglin Wen;Kit-Tai Hau;Benjamin Nagengast

  • Quality of life of Chinese urban community residents: a psychometric study of the mainland Chinese version of the WHOQOL-BREF

    Ping Xia;Ningxiu Li;Kit-Tai Hau;Chaojie Liu

  • Structure and Semantic Differential Placement of Specific Causes: Academic Causal Attributions by Chinese Students in Hong Kong

    Kit-Tai Hau;Farideh Salili

  • Extension of the internal/external frame of reference model of self-concept formation: Importance of native and nonnative languages for Chinese students

    Herbert W. Marsh;Chit-Kwong Kong;Kit-Tai Hau

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Benjamin Nagengast
Benjamin Nagengast University of Tübingen
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Thomas J. Berndt
Thomas J. Berndt Purdue University West Lafayette
Linda C. W. Lam
Linda C. W. Lam Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rhonda Craven
Rhonda Craven Australian Catholic University
Alexandre J. S. Morin
Alexandre J. S. Morin Concordia University
Helen F.K. Chiu
Helen F.K. Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ulrich Trautwein
Ulrich Trautwein University of Tübingen

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