Synthesizing Results from the Trial State Assessment

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-438

  Raudenbush, Stephen W ^a   Fotiu, Randall P ^b   Cheong, Yuk Fai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical linear models; NAEP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033260293     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986024004413     Document Type: Article

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