This article briefly describes soft modeling with partial least squares (pls) in a nontechnical manner. soft modeling with pls was developed by herman wold (1985) for model building and evaluation in situations with high complexity but without well-articulated theories. because many believe that this is the situation in education, we believe that soft modeling with pls is a useful tool for educational research.
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