Consequences of Misspecifying Levels of Variance in Cross-Classified Longitudinal Data Structures

The purpose of this study was to determine if modeling school and classroom effects was necessary in estimating passage reading growth across elementary grades. Longitudinal data from 8,367 students in 2,989 classrooms in 202 Reading First schools were used in this study and were obtained from the P...

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Main Authors: Jennifer eGilbert, Yaacov ePetscher, Donald L Compton, Chris eSchatschneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00695/full