Applied Quantitative Analysis in Education and the Social Sciences

Yaacov Petscher is Director of Research at the Florida Center for Reading Research, US.Christopher Schatschneider is Associate Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, US. Donald L. Compton is Professor of Special Education and John F. Kennedy Center Investigator at Vanderbilt University, US.

• Part I: Individual Level Analysis 1. Extending Conditional Means Modeling: An Introduction to Quantile Regression, Yaacov Petscher, Jessica A.R. Logan, and Chengfu Zhou 2. Using Dominance Analysis to Estimate Predictor: Importance in Multiple Regression, Razia Azen 3. I am ROC Curves (and so can you)!, Christopher Schatschneider Part II: Multilevel Analysis 4. Multilevel Modeling: Practical Examples to Illustrate a Special Case of SEM, Lee Branum-Martin 5. Linear and Quadratic Growth Models for Continuous and Dichotomous Outcomes, Ann A. O’Connell, Jessica A. R. Logan, Jill Pentimonti, and D. Betsy McCoach PART III: Item Level Analysis 6. Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Rex Kline 7. Factor Analysis with Categorical Indicators: Demonstrationof Item Response Theory, R.J. de Ayala Part IV: Covariance Structure Analysis 8. Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling, Richard Lomax 9. Latent Growth Curve Modeling using Structural Equation Modeling, Ryan Bowles and Janelle J. Montroy 10. Latent Class/Profile Analysis, Karen Samuelsen and Katherine Raczynski 11. n-level Structural Equation Modeling, Paras Mehta