PISA data analysis
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:18 am
Hi all,
I'm hoping someone has used MLWin to analyse an individual country's PISA data (Australia here). There are two main questions I'm trying to get my head around: 1) how to handle the given weights (I note a previous other post on this received no reply -- in which the experimental status of the current weights function was noted), and 2) how to deal with the plausible values (there are five given for each achievement/ test domain). The PISA manuals are only partially helpful, but not completely; and I can not find any publlished reports of multi-level anlayses of PISA that really explain how these issues were handled). (There are nice examples for HLM users, which has a PV function -- but I made the shift to MLWin long ago...)
Any help? Anyone?
Thanks in advance
James
I'm hoping someone has used MLWin to analyse an individual country's PISA data (Australia here). There are two main questions I'm trying to get my head around: 1) how to handle the given weights (I note a previous other post on this received no reply -- in which the experimental status of the current weights function was noted), and 2) how to deal with the plausible values (there are five given for each achievement/ test domain). The PISA manuals are only partially helpful, but not completely; and I can not find any publlished reports of multi-level anlayses of PISA that really explain how these issues were handled). (There are nice examples for HLM users, which has a PV function -- but I made the shift to MLWin long ago...)
Any help? Anyone?
Thanks in advance
James