Fundamentals of MDS -- The Four Purposes of Multidimensional Scaling -- Constructing MDS Representations -- MDS Models and Measures of Fit -- Three Applications of MDS -- MDS and Facet Theory -- How to Obtain Proximities -- MDS Models and Solving MDS Problems -- Matrix Algebra for MDS -- A Majorization Algorithm for Solving MDS -- Metric and Nonmetric MDS -- Confirmatory MDS -- MDS Fit Measures…
to Longitudinal Data -- Plots -- Simple Analyses -- Critiques of Simple Analyses -- The Multivariate Normal Linear Model -- Tools and Concepts -- Specifying Covariates -- Modeling the Covariance Matrix -- Random Effects Models -- Residuals and Case Diagnostics -- Discrete Longitudinal Data -- Missing Data -- Analyzing Two Longitudinal Variables -- Further Reading.Longitudinal data are ubiquitou…
Missing data -- Prologue -- Describing incompleteness -- Single imputation and related methods -- Multiple imputation -- Case studies -- Small-area estimation -- Models for small areas -- Using auxiliary information -- Using small-area estimators -- Case studies -- Combining estimators -- Model selection.This book develops methods for two key problems in the analysis of large-scale surveys: dea…
1. Conceptual Framework and Methodology of this Report -- 2. Relation of Student Achievement to the Quality of Their Teachers and Instructional Quality -- 3. The Relations among School Climate, Instructional Quality, and Achievement Motivation in Mathematics -- 4. The Impact of School Climate and Teacher Quality on Mathematics Achievement: A Difference-in-Differences Approach -- 5. The Importan…
Family Environment -- Peer Relations -- Teacher Interpersonal Behaviour -- Cooperative Learning Outcomes and Cooperative Learning Environments.Weiping Liu contends that the impacts of learning environments on Chinese only children must be studied from a bioecological systems perspective by considering the direct and joint effects of learning environments and personality within the macro-environ…
Cultura matematica, formazione e media -- La preparazione matematica delle matricole nelle università europee: risultati di un test -- Metodi statistici per la misurazione delle competenze: analisi della preparazione matematica delle matricole -- Matematica e media: strumenti, aspettative, risultati -- I problemi della matematica nel Regno Unito -- Metamorph da Escher all’architettura virtua…
Brief History of Test Theory and Design -- Formulating Test Specifications -- Modeling Test-Assembly Problems -- Solving Test-Assembly Problems -- Models for Assembling Single Tests -- Models for Assembling Multiple Tests -- Models for Assembling Tests with Item Sets -- Models for Assembling Tests Measuring Multiple Abilities -- Models for Adaptive Test Assembly -- Designing Item Pools for Prog…
Preface; Part I: Ethics, Islam and Education -- Chapter 1. Qurānic Conceptual Framework of Ethics -- Chapter 2. The Qurān and the Espousal of Ethics -- Chapter 3. Qurānic Conceptions of being Muslim -- Chapter 4. Qurānic Conceptions of Education -- Part II. Participants in Muslim Education -- Chapter 5. The Qurān and Individual Autonomy -- Chapter 6. Qurānic Conceptions of Community -- Ch…
Prologue: A journey to Rome -- The musician's son -- A gifted young Tuscan -- To Rome and the Jesuits -- A Surveyor of Inferno -- The spheres from the tower -- From Pisa to Padua -- Signs in the sky -- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium -- Lecturer and designer -- A professor's commitments -- Modern physics is born -- A new star in an unchanging sky?- Drawing close to a court -- The balls fall…
Unary algebras and dualisability -- Binary homomorphisms and natural dualities -- The complexity of dualisability: three-element unary algebras -- Full and strong dualisability: three-element unary algebras -- Dualisability and algebraic constructions -- Dualisability and clones -- Inherent dualisability.Natural duality theory is one of the major growth areas within general algebra. This text p…