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Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of Educational Services and Quality of Products

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Paola Monari

    1. Dept. Statistical Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  2. Matilde Bini

    1. Dipto. Statistica, G. Parenti, Università Firenze, Firenze, Italy

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  3. Domenico Piccolo

    1. Fac. Scienze Politiche, Dipto. Scienze Statistiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

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  4. Luigi Salmaso

    1. Department of Management and, Engineering, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy

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  • An overview of the main and most recent approaches for evaluating the formative processes.
  • The readers can find interesting and new applications in the context of educational research.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contributions to Statistics (CONTRIB.STAT.)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Matilde Bini, Paola Monari, Domenico Piccolo, Luigi Salmaso
    Pages 1-16

  3. Latent variable models for ordinal data

    • Silvia Cagnone, Stefania Mignani, Irini Moustaki
    Pages 17-28

  4. Issues on item response theory modelling

    • Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani, Bernard P. Veldkamp
    Pages 29-45

  5. Nonlinearity in the analysis of longitudinal data

    • Estela Bee Dagum, Silvia Bianconcini, Paola Monari
    Pages 47-60

  6. Multilevel models for the evaluation of educational institutions: a review

    • Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini
    Pages 61-80

  7. Multilevel mixture factor models for the evaluation of educational programs’ effectiveness

    • Roberta Varriale, Caterina Giusti
    Pages 81-98

  8. A class of statistical models for evaluating services and performances

    • Marcella Corduas, Maria Iannario, Domenico Piccolo
    Pages 99-117

  9. Choices and conjoint analysis: critical aspects and recent developments

    • Rossella Berni, Riccardo Rivello
    Pages 119-137

  10. Robust diagnostics in university performance studies

    • Matilde Bini, Bruno Bertaccini, Silvia Bacci
    Pages 139-160

  11. A novel global performance score with an application to the evaluation of new detergents

    • Stefano Bonnini, Livio Corain, Luigi Salmaso, Antonio Cordellina, Anna Crestana, Remigio Musci
    Pages 161-179

  12. Nonparametric tests for the randomized complete block design with ordered categorical variables

    • Livio Corain, Luigi Salmaso
    Pages 181-192

  13. A permutation test for umbrella alternatives

    • Dario Basso, Fortunato Pesarin, Luigi Salmaso
    Pages 193-208

  14. Nonparametric methods for measuring concordance between rankings: a case study on the evaluation of professional profiles of municipal directors

    • Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro, Mario Bolzan, Livio Corain
    Pages 209-226

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 1-17
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The book presents statistical methods and models that can usefully support the ev- uation of educational services and quality of products. The contributions collected in this book summarize the work of several researchers from the universities of Bologna, Firenze, Napoli and Padova. The contributions are written with a cons- tent notation and a uni?ed view, and concern methodological advances developed mostly with reference to speci?c problems of evaluation using real data sets. The evaluation of educational services, as well as the analysis of judgements and preferences, poses severe methodological challenges because of the presence of one or more of the following aspects: the observational (non experimental) nature of the context, which is associated with the well-known problems of selection bias and presence of nuisance factors; the hierarchical structure of the data, that entails c- related observations and consideration of effects at different levels of the hierarchy and their interactions (multilevel analysis); the multivariate and qualitative nature of the dependent variable, that requires the use of ad hoc statistical methodologies; the presence of non observable factors, e. g. the satisfaction, calling for the use of latent variables models; the simultaneous presence of components of pleasure and components of uncertainty in the explication of the judgments, that asks for the speci?cation and estimation of mixture models. The ?rst part of the book deals with latent variable models.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Statistical Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paola Monari

  • Dipto. Statistica, G. Parenti, Università Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Matilde Bini

  • Fac. Scienze Politiche, Dipto. Scienze Statistiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

    Domenico Piccolo

  • Department of Management and, Engineering, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy

    Luigi Salmaso

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