I need to look at change over time (year 1 year 2) in Math scores measured at the student level with students nested within Schools. I have the same 13 schools at both time points However I cannot link students from time one to time two. The number of students within a school varies both within a year and across schools and within a school across years. Is there a way to model the effect of time in SPSS Mixed so that I can capitalize on the fact that schools are repeatedly measured.? Thanks in advance William N Dudley, PhD President Piedmont Research Strategies, Inc |
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William, you said you cannot link students from time 1 to time 2. I gather this means that there are students (possibly a substantial number) who have data for both time points, but you lack the unique student IDs required to link the two data points. Is that correct? If so, I imagine there are also some students who have data for only one year.
Thanks for clarifying.
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I'm not sure but maybe a Growth Curve Modelling suits better to the dataset you describe?? Curran, Obeidat & Losardo. (2010). Twelve Frequently Asked Questions About Growth Curve Modeling. J Cogn Dev, 11(2): 121–136. doi:10.1080/15248371003699969. Regards Norberto 2016-08-28 16:03 GMT-05:00 Bruce Weaver <[hidden email]>: William, you said you cannot link students from time 1 to time 2. I gather |
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Without a student indicator, it wouldn't be possible to capture student variance. Someone mentioned growth curve models, but one would really need more than 2 time points to measure growth in a meaningful way. That said, the idea of a growth curve model with these type of data piqued my interest. Below would be a reasonable starting point to fit a growth curve model for these type of data assuming at least three time points: Y = mu + time_within_school_ij + residual_ijk For a given school, the time effects have the following covariance structure | time_in_school_1j | | 1 rho rho^2 | Var | time_in_school_2j | = sigma_time^2 | 1 rho | | time_in_school_3j | | 1 | residual variance = variance among the replicate observations in the same time at the same school variance for subject "school" is "sigma_time^2" = variance among the effects of time within a given school first-order autoregressive correlation for subject "school" is "rho" = correlation between time within school effects that are adjacent in time Ryan On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Bruce Weaver <[hidden email]> wrote: William, you said you cannot link students from time 1 to time 2. I gather |
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