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Direct linkMcCoach, D. Betsy; Rifenbark, Graham G.; Newton, Sarah D.; Li, Xiaoran; Kooken, Janice; Yomtov, Dani; Gambino, Anthony J.; Bellara, Aarti – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2018
This study compared five common multilevel software packages via Monte Carlo simulation: HLM 7, M"plus" 7.4, R (lme4 V1.1-12), Stata 14.1, and SAS 9.4 to determine how the programs differ in estimation accuracy and speed, as well as convergence, when modeling multiple randomly varying slopes of different magnitudes. Simulated data…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Computer Software, Comparative Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods
Guarino, Cassandra M.; Maxfield, Michelle; Reckase, Mark D.; Thompson, Paul N.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
Empirical Bayes's (EB) estimation has become a popular procedure used to calculate teacher value added, often as a way to make imprecise estimates more reliable. In this article, we review the theory of EB estimation and use simulated and real student achievement data to study the ability of EB estimators to properly rank teachers. We compare the…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Computation, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness
Thissen, David – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
David Thissen, a professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Quantitative Program at the University of North Carolina, has consulted and served on technical advisory committees for assessment programs that use item response theory (IRT) over the past couple decades. He has come to the conclusion that there are usually two purposes…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Construction, Testing Problems, Student Evaluation
Reardon, Sean F.; Ho, Andrew D. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
In an earlier paper, we presented methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. We demonstrated that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a broad range of simulated and real coarsened data…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Performance Factors, Educational Practices, Scores
de la Torre, Jimmy; Patz, Richard J. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2005
This article proposes a practical method that capitalizes on the availability of information from multiple tests measuring correlated abilities given in a single test administration. By simultaneously estimating different abilities with the use of a hierarchical Bayesian framework, more precise estimates for each ability dimension are obtained.…
Descriptors: Scoring, Markov Processes, Item Response Theory, Tests
Using Data Augmentation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the Estimation of Unfolding Response Models
Johnson, Matthew S.; Junker, Brian W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2003
Unfolding response models, a class of item response theory (IRT) models that assume a unimodal item response function (IRF), are often used for the measurement of attitudes. Verhelst and Verstralen (1993)and Andrich and Luo (1993) independently developed unfolding response models by relating the observed responses to a more common monotone IRT…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Item Response Theory, Computation, Data Analysis
