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Muth, Chelsea; Bales, Karen L.; Hinde, Katie; Maninger, Nicole; Mendoza, Sally P.; Ferrer, Emilio – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Unavoidable sample size issues beset psychological research that involves scarce populations or costly laboratory procedures. When incorporating longitudinal designs these samples are further reduced by traditional modeling techniques, which perform listwise deletion for any instance of missing data. Moreover, these techniques are limited in their…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Psychological Studies, Models, Statistical Analysis
Salvucci, Sameena; And Others – 1995
This technical report provides the results of a study on the calculation and use of generalized variance functions (GVFs) and design effects for the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). The SASS is a periodic integrated system of sample surveys conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) that produces sampling variances…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of Measurement
Mosquin, Paul; Chromy, James – American Institutes for Research, 2004
This paper addresses statistical aspects of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act (Bush, 2001), with the following goals: to further the discussion on how gaps in performance might be defined and to offer candidate gap estimators, to evaluate candidate gap estimators with respect to three separate student performance measures, to provide…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Indicators, Federal Programs, Achievement Gap