Looking back proceedings of a conference in honor of Paul W. Holland /

In 2006, Paul W. Holland retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) after a career spanning five decades. In 2008, ETS sponsored a conference, Looking Back, honoring his contributions to applied and theoretical psychometrics and statistics. Looking Back attracted a large audience that came to pa...

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Other Authors: Holland, Paul W., Dorans, Neil J., Sinharay, S., Educational Testing Service.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Springer, ©2011.
New York : [2011]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ; v. 202.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Contributions of Paul Holland
  • Algebraic Statistics for p1 Random Graph Models
  • Mr. Holland's Networks: A Brief Review of the Importance of Statistical Studies of Local Subgraphs or One Small Tune in a Large Opus
  • Some of My Favorite Things About Working at ETS
  • Bayesian Analysis of a Two-Group Randomized Encouragement Design
  • The Role of Nonparametric Analysis in Assessment Modeling: Then and Now
  • What Aspects of the Design of an Observational Study Affect Its Sensitivity to Bias From Covariates That Were Not Observed?
  • The Origins of Procedures for Using Differential Item Functioning Statistics at Educational Testing Service
  • Why I Left ETS and Returned
  • Cause or Effect? Validating the Use of Tests for High-Stakes Inferences in Education
  • Propensity Score Matching to Extract Latent Experiments From Nonexperimental Data: A Case Study
  • Returning to ETS from Berkeley
  • Loglinear Models as Smooth Operators: Holland's Statistical Applications and Their Practical Uses
  • Chain Equipercentile Equating and Frequency Estimation Equipercentile Equating: Comparisons Based on Real and Simulated Data
  • An Observed-Score Equating Framework
  • Great Colleagues Make a Great Institution
  • An Exploratory Analysis of Charter Schools
  • Holland's Advice for the Fourth Generation of Test Theory: Blood Tests Can Be Contests.