Statistical Modeling of the National Assessment of Educational Progress

• Main Authors: Aitkin, Irit (Author), Aitkin, Murray (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Assessment.; Psychometrics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

The purpose of this book is to evaluate a new approach to the analysis and reporting of the large-scale surveys for the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out for the National Center for Education Statistics. The need for a new approach was driven by the demands for secondary analys...

Table of Contents:

• Theories of Data Analysis and Statistical Inference
• The Current Design and Analysis
• Psychometric and Survey Models
• Technical Reports – Data Analyses and Simulation Studies
• 1986 NAEP Math Survey
• Analysis of All 1986Math Iems
• 2005 NAEP Math Survey – Texas
• 2005 NAEP Math Survey – California
• Conclusions
• 1986 Survey Results, 30 Item Subscale
• 1986 Survey Results, Full 79 Items
• Model Parameter Estimates and SEs, 2005 Texas Survey
• Model Parameter Estimates and SEs, 2005 California survey.