Multilevel analysis of educational data /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	ScienceDirect (Online service), University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Research in Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, NORC (Organization)
Other Authors:	Bock, R. Darrell
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	San Diego : Academic Press, ©1989.
Subjects:	Educational evaluation > United States > Statistical methods > Congresses. Évaluation en éducation > États-Unis > Méthodes statistiques > Congrès. EDUCATION > Administration > General. EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General. Educational evaluation > Statistical methods United States Evaluation Pädagogik Statistik Multiniveau-analyse. Onderwijsevaluatie. Educational statistics. Education > Evaluation > Statistical methods. Education > Assessment Electronic books. Congress proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
1. Some applications of multilevel models of educational data / Donald B. Rubin
2. Empirical Bayes methods : a tool for exploratory analysis / Henry I. Braun
3. A hierarchical item-response model for educational testing / Robert J. Mislevy and R. Darrell Bock
4. Difficulties with Bayesian inference for random effects / Charles Lewis
5. Multilevel aspects of varying parameters in structural models / Bengt Mutheń and Albert Satorra. Discussions of papers by Mislevy and Bock, Mutheń and Satorra, and Lewis / Robert K. Tsutakawa
6. Models for multilevel response variables with an application to growth curves / Harvey Goldstein
7. Multilevel models : issues and problems emerging from their recent application in British students of school effectiveness / John Gray. What can go wrong with iteratively re-weighted least squares? / Peter McCullagh
8. Toward a more appropriate conceptualization of research on school effects: a three-level hierarchical linear model / Anthony S. Bryk and Stephen W. Raudenbush
9. Quantitative models for estimating teacher and school effectiveness / Stephen W. Raudenbush and Anthony S. Bryk
10. Multilevel investigations of systematically varying slopes : issues, alternatives, and consequences / Leigh Burstein, Kyung-Sung Kim, and Ginette Delandshere. Multilevel data analysis : a discussion / Hariharan Swaminathan
11. Profile predictive likelihood for random effects in the two-level model / Murray Aitkin
12. Fisher scoring algorithm for variance component analysis of data with multilevel structure / Nicholas T. Longford. Discussion of Aitkin's and Longford's paper / Paul W. Holland
Addendum: Measurement of human variation : a two-stage model / R. Darrell Bock
Author index
Subject index.