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Televantou, Ioulia; Marsh, Herbert W.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Nagengast, Benjamin; Fletcher, John; Malmberg, Lars-Erik – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
The main objective of this study was to quantify the impact of failing to account for measurement error on school compositional effects. Multilevel structural equation models were incorporated to control for measurement error and/or sampling error. Study 1, a large sample of English primary students in Years 1 and 4, revealed a significantly…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Statistical Bias, Error of Measurement, Educational Research
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Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Silva, Pedro N. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Investigation of peer effects on achievement with sample survey data on schools may mean that only a random sample of the population of peers is observed for each individual. This generates measurement error in peer variables similar in form to the textbook case of errors-in-variables, resulting in the estimated peer group effects in an OLS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sampling, Error of Measurement, Peer Groups