Technical Reports – Data Analyses and Simulation Studies

Abstract

The arguments that support the model-based analysis we describe in Chapter 3, and carry out in the following chapters on the 1986 and 2005 NAEP surveys, are based partly on the statistical theory set out in the previous chapters but also, and importantly, on small- and large-scale simulation studies we carried out over the period 2003–2009. In this chapter, we summarise the conclusions from these studies; the full details are in the NCES Technical Reports. These can be downloaded from the Web; the file name is given for each report. The following chapters incorporate the relevant details from the reports; Chapters 7 and 8 reproduce almost completely the content of the technical reports on the Texas and California 2005 surveys, so these reports are not provided.