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Working with missing data in large-scale assessments

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Apr 16, 2025

Reassessing weights in large-scale assessments and multilevel models

Mar 28, 2025

Selecting the proper weights in LSAs with multilevel models

A common question with the use of large-scale assessments (LSAs) is related to the use of weights. Another issue is how to specify these weights properly. Software such as SAS and Mplus, when specifying weights at two levels, require the use of conditional weights at level 1 if the level-2 weight is specified (or you can just use the level-2 weights alone; see Mang et al., 2021, see bottom part of this post).

Sep 1, 2024