Multilevel ordinal models for examination grades

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-153

  Fielding, Antony ^a   Yang, Min ^b   Goldstein, Harvey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

educational grades; GCE Advanced Level; logit; MLwiN; MULTICAT; multilevel models; nonproportiona l odds; ordinal responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993708271     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082X03st052oa     Document Type: Article

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