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There has been a sharp increase during the past decade in the use of multivariate analysis in research in the behavioral sciences and education. This is a healthy trend because educational research inherently involves many variables, both as predictors and criteria. We seldom seek to predict educational outcomes from a single variable, and we seldom assess them with single criterion variables.
Maurice M. Tatsuoka (Mon,) studied this question.