Please see below for the following seminar organised by The Royal Statistical Society General Applications Section & RSS Merseyside local group
PREREGISTRATION RECOMMENDED. ALL ARE WELCOME. THERE IS NO CHARGE Contact: Marta García-Fiñana [log in to unmask] or Ashley Jones [log in to unmask]
Statistical analysis of cognitive performance in children
16rd April 2009, 14.00-16.15 at the University of Liverpool
(Room 512 Cedar House, Ashton Street, L69 3GE, Liverpool)
For medical researchers and statisticians interested in the application of statistical techniques currently used to assess performance in children
Rebecca Pillinger (Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol)
School, neighbourhood and family contributions to pupils' progress
This presentation will look at why clustered data, which often appear in education research, need to be analyzed with techniques like multilevel modelling. Besides dealing with clustering, the use of multilevel modelling opens up some interesting research questions which cannot be addressed with simpler methods. This is illustrated with an example: measuring the contributions to pupils' progress between age 11 and 16 made by neighbourhood, primary school, secondary school, family and individual effects.
Ivonne Solis-Trapala (Department of Medicine, Lancaster University)
Modelling executive function test performance in children
Research into executive functions (EF) has increasingly adopted a multivariate approach in which groups of tests are administered to adults or children in order to assess the structure of these processes.
Within such tasks, participants perform multiple trials to assess each component of EF skill. In this talk, change in performance of young children on repeated measures of executive functions will be assessed taking into account the sampling distributions associated with the individual measurements. The findings of this study raise questions about the validity of research in which large numbers of tests are administered to children within a battery.
Christopher Cheyne (CMSHE, University of Liverpool)
The effect of handedness on academic ability
In recent years questions have arisen about whether there are any links between handedness and academic abilities as well as other factors. In this talk, the effects of gender, writing hand, relative hand skill and UK region on mathematics and reading test scores will be analysed by applying a multivariate linear mixed-effects model to a data sample based on 11,847 11-year-old pupils across the UK. The advantages and limitations of the statistical methodology used will be discussed.
Organised by The Royal Statistical Society General Applications Section & RSS Merseyside local group
PREREGISTRATION RECOMMENDED. ALL ARE WELCOME. THERE IS NO CHARGE Contact: Marta García-Fiñana [log in to unmask] or Ashley Jones [log in to unmask]
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