Multilevel Latent Variable Modeling: An Application in Education Testing

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  • Jeroen K. Vermunt Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17713/ajs.v37i3&4.309

Abstract

A framework for multilevel latent variable modeling is presented that includes many existing models as special cases. It is shown that parameters can be estimated by maximum likelihood using a special variant of the EM algorithm. An application is presented from the field of school effectiveness research. This application uses a novel multilevel mixture item response model which clusters schools based on the students’ latent abilities and the item difficulties.

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2016-04-03

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Vermunt, J. K. (2016). Multilevel Latent Variable Modeling: An Application in Education Testing. Austrian Journal of Statistics, 37(3&4), 285–299. https://doi.org/10.17713/ajs.v37i3&4.309

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