Professor Harvey Goldstein

Research summary

• Statistical modelling techniques in the construction and analysis of educational tests.  The implications of adopting such models have been explored in a series of papers since 1977.  In a number of papers he has also explored the ideas of criterion referenced assessment, comparability of assessments and the interaction of assessment modes and the purposes of assessment.
• The area of 'educational (school) effectiveness'.  He has been involved in a number of longitudinal studies of 'value added indicators' for comparing institutions and the use of such indicators for school improvement purposes.
• The Methodology of multilevel modelling.  With Jon Rasbash and more recently ...

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Biography

Harvey is a chartered statistician, has been editor of the Royal Statistical Society's Journal, Series A, a member of the Society's Council and was awarded the Society's Guy medal on silver in 1998.

He was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1987, and a fellow of the British Academy in 1996.  He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University in 2001.

In 2007, he became a fellow of the Association for Educational Assessment, Europe.

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Selected publications

• Goldstein, H, Harron, K & Wade, A 2012, ‘The analysis of record-linked data using multiple imputation with data value priors’. Statistics in Medicine.
• Leckie, G, Pillinger, R, Jones, K & Goldstein, H 2012, ‘Multilevel modelling of social segregation’. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, vol 37., pp. 3 - 30

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