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Harring, Jeffrey R.; Johnson, Tessa L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
In this digital ITEMS module, Dr. Jeffrey Harring and Ms. Tessa Johnson introduce the linear mixed effects (LME) model as a flexible general framework for simultaneously modeling continuous repeated measures data with a scientifically defensible function that adequately summarizes both individual change as well as the average response. The module…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Data Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Hancock, Gregory R.; An, Ji – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2018
In this ITEMS module, we frame the topic of scale reliability within a "confirmatory factor analysis" and "structural equation modeling" (SEM) context and address some of the limitations of Cronbach's a. This modeling approach has two major advantages: (1) it allows researchers to make explicit the relation between their items…
Descriptors: Reliability, Structural Equation Models, Factor Analysis, Correlation