On correcting measurement error in the persistence rate estimator. Issue 4 (21st April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Feng, Cindy X.; Piesse, Andrea
• Is Part Of: Communications in statistics. Volume 47:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 997
• Page End: 1013
• Publication Date: 2018-04-21
• Subjects: Measurement error -- Persistence Rate -- Reliability -- SIMEX; 62 -- 62G05; Mathematical statistics -- Periodicals; Mathematical statistics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Digital computer simulation -- Periodicals; 519.5
• DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2017.1300269
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0361-0918

Abstract

Abstract: In the field of education, it is often of great interest to estimate the percentage of students who start out in the top test quantile at time 1 and who remain there at time 2, which is termed as "persistence rate, " to measure the students' academic growth. One common difficulty is that students' performance may be subject to measurement errors. We therefore considered a correlation calibration method and the simulation–extrapolation (SIMEX) method for correcting the measurement errors. Simulation studies are presented to compare various measurement error correction methods in estimating the persistence rate.