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Phelps, James L. – Educational Considerations, 2012
In most school achievement research, the relationships between achievement and explanatory variables follow the Newton and Einstein concept/principle and the viewpoint of the macro-observer: Deterministic measures based on the mean value of a sufficiently large number of schools. What if the relationships between achievement and explanatory…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computation, Probability, Statistics
Shin, Jihyung – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research is motivated by an analysis of reading research data. We are interested in modeling the test outcome of ability to fluently recode letters into sounds of kindergarten children aged between 5 and 7. The data showed excessive zero scores (more than 30% of children) on the test. In this dissertation, we carefully examine the models…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Reading Research, Kindergarten