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

1. Introduction
Matilde Bini, Paola Monari, Domenico Piccolo, Luigi Salmaso

2. Latent variable models for ordinal data
Silvia Cagnone, Stefania Mignani, Irini Moustaki

3. Issues on item response theory modelling
Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani, Bernard P. Veldkamp

4. Nonlinearity in the analysis of longitudinal data
Estela Bee Dagum, Silvia Bianconcini, Paola Monari

5. Multilevel models for the evaluation of educational institutions: a review
Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini

6. Multilevel mixture factor models for the evaluation of educational programs’ effectiveness
Roberta Varriale, Caterina Giusti

7. A class of statistical models for evaluating services and performances
Marcella Corduas, Maria Iannario, Domenico Piccolo

8. Choices and conjoint analysis: critical aspects and recent developments
Rossella Berni, Riccardo Rivello

9. Robust diagnostics in university performance studies
Matilde Bini, Bruno Bertaccini, Silvia Bacci

10. 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

11. Nonparametric tests for the randomized complete block design with ordered categorical variables
Livio Corain, Luigi Salmaso

12. A permutation test for umbrella alternatives
Dario Basso, Fortunato Pesarin, Luigi Salmaso

13. 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

Avainsanat: Statistics, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation