TY - BOOK AU - Bock,R.Darrell ED - University of California, Los Angeles. ED - NORC (Organization) TI - Multilevel analysis of educational data SN - 0121088405 (alk. paper) AV - LB2822.75 .M85 1989 U1 - 370.727 BOC 23 PY - 1989/// CY - San Diego PB - Academic Press KW - Educational evaluation KW - United States KW - Statistical methods KW - Congresses N1 - 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; Includes bibliographies and indexes; D.B. Rubin, Some Applications of Multilevel Models of Educational Data. H.I. Braun, Empirical Bayes Methods: A Tool for Exploratory Analysis. R.J. Mislevy and R.D. Bock, A Hierarchical Item-response Model for Educational Testing. C. Lewis, Difficulties with Bayesian Inference for Random Effects. B. Muthéen and A. Satorra, Multilevel Aspects of Varying Parameters in Structural Models. R.K. Tsutakawa--Discussant, Discussions of Papers by Mislevy and Bock, Muthéen and Satorra, and Lewis. H. Goldstein, Models for Multilevel Response Variables with an Application to Growth Curves. J. Gray, Multilevel Models: Issues and Problems Emerging from their Recent Application in British Students of School Effectiveness. P. McCullagh, Discussant, What Can Go Wrong with Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares? A.S. Bryk and S.W. Raudenbush, Toward a More Appropriate Conceptualization of Research on School Effects: A Three-Level Hierarchical Linear Model. S.W. Raudenbush and A.S. Bryk, Quantitative Models for Estimating Teacher and School Effectiveness. L. Burstein, K.-S. Kim, and G. Delandshere, Multilevel Investigations of Systematically Varying Slopes: Issues, Alternatives, and Consequences. H. Swaminathan, -Discussant, Multilevel Data Analysis: A Discussion. M. Aitkin, Profile Predictive Likelihood for Random Effects in the Two-Level Model. N.T. Longford, Fisher Scoring Algorithm for Variance Component Analysis of Data with Multilevel Structure. P.W. Holland, Discussant, Discussion of Aitkin's and Longford's Paper. R.D. Bock, Addendum-Measurement of Human Variation: A Two-Stage Model UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/els031/88007577.html ER -