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Kim, Minjung; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
Given the natural hierarchical structure in school-setting data, multilevel modeling (MLM) has been widely employed in education research using a number of different statistical software packages. The purpose of this article is to review a recent feature of Stat-JR, the statistical analysis assistants (SAAs) embedded in Stat-JR (Version 1.0.5),…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
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Bennink, Margot; Croon, Marcel A.; Keuning, Jos; Vermunt, Jeroen K. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
In educational measurement, responses of students on items are used not only to measure the ability of students, but also to evaluate and compare the performance of schools. Analysis should ideally account for the multilevel structure of the data, and school-level processes not related to ability, such as working climate and administration…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Test Bias
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Feldman, Betsy J.; Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2012
In longitudinal education studies, assuming that dropout and missing data occur completely at random is often unrealistic. When the probability of dropout depends on covariates and observed responses (called "missing at random" [MAR]), or on values of responses that are missing (called "informative" or "not missing at random" [NMAR]),…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Computation