Apologies for cross-posting
The Avon Group of the Royal Statistical Society will be meeting again on
the 8th February 2007. The theme of the meeting will be ‘Statistics in
Education” with speakers Mark Gittoes (HEFCE) and Harvey Goldstein
(University of Bristol).
Date & Time: The meeting will take place on Thursday the 8th of February
and will start at 4.00 pm. Tea will be served from 3.30 pm at the Maths
Square 1 West 3.12. The meeting is hosted by the Department of
Mathematical Sciences, Statistics Group at the University of Bath.
Place: The talks will take place at University of Bath Campus 8 West 2.30.
(See map http://www.bath.ac.uk/maps/campusmap.html)
Admission: The meeting is open to all and free of charge
Contacts:
Daphne Kounali ([log in to unmask])
Nicole Augustine ([log in to unmask])
Titles and abstracts are below:
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Modelling the Impact of Pupil Mobility on School Differences in
Educational Achievement. by Harvey Goldstein (LSECentre for Multilevel
Modelling, University of Bristol)
Abstract:
The recently introduced National Pupil Database in England allows the
tracking of every child through the compulsory phases of the state
education system. The data from Key Stage 2 for three Local Education
Authorities are studied, following cohorts of pupils through their
schooling. The mobility of pupils among schools is studied in detail using
multiple membership multilevel models that include prior achievement and
other predictors and the results are compared with traditional ‘value
added’ approaches that ignore pupil mobility. The analysis also includes a
cross classification of junior and infant schools attended. The results
suggest that some existing conclusions about schooling effects may need to
be revised.
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Selection of staff for inclusion in the 2001 Research Assessment
Exercise. by Mark Gittoes (HEFCE)
Abstract:
The talk will discuss how disability, age, sex and ethnicity are related
to selection of staff for inclusion in the 2001 Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE), and the possible reasons for the differences in selection
rates found. Showing the importance of the use of multi-level modelling,
it examines the question of whether the process of selecting staff was
fair, or if some staff were disadvantaged. In addition, the presentation
will describe how bibliometric data was used to assess the relative
research strength of the men and women, and of staff from ethnic
minorities, whose work was submitted to the RAE. The impacts of the
findings of this analysis on the 2008 RAE are also considered.
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