Contrasting OLS and Quantile Regression Approaches to Student "Growth" Percentiles

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-215

  Castellano, Katherine Elizabeth ^a   Ho, Andrew Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

conditional status; growth; student growth percentiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875410734     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998611435413     Document Type: Article

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