This volume reviews the challenges and alternative approaches to modeling how individuals change across time and provides methodologies and data analytic strategies for behavioral and social science researchers. This accessible guide provides concrete, clear examples of how contextual factors can be included in most research studies. Each chapter can be understood independently, allowing readers to first focus on areas most relevant to their work. The opening chapter demonstrates the various ways contextual factors are represented as covariates, predictors, outcomes, moderators, mediators,...
This volume reviews the challenges and alternative approaches to modeling how individuals change across time and provides methodologies and data an...
James A. Bovaird Kurt F. Geisinger Chad W. Buckendahl
The educational testing community in the United States is facing a dramatic increase in the use of test scores as a measure of accountability. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues in testing science and practice that impact the nation's public education system. These include test development at the local and state levels, the assessment of special populations, test performance in charter schools, and the role of college placement and entrance examinations. Also featured is a section focusing on validation practices, and defining and interpreting resulting test scores....
The educational testing community in the United States is facing a dramatic increase in the use of test scores as a measure of accountability. This vo...
