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Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: R Darrell Bock; University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Research in Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.; NORC (Organization)
ISBN: 0121088405 9780121088408
OCLC Number: 18557239
Notes: Papers and discussions presented at an international conference, organized by the Center for Research in Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing of UCLA, and by NORC; held Apr. 26-28, 1987, at the Princeton Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Description: xii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by R. Darrell Bock.
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