Harvey Goldstein

News items

New research on the uses of school league tables shows that for purposes of school choice they convey very little useful information. Click here.
The National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE) has just published the report of a commission on the future of lifelong learning ( http://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/default.htm ). This has some useful recommendations, supported by invited submissions from various individuals and bodies. The quality of these submissions, however, seems highly variable and some of the justifications, especially those based upon cost-benefit analyses, are very weak. For a critique and suggestions for a research programme, click here.
One development of the REALCOM project has been to develop a full multilevel multiple imputation procedure that will handle normal as well as categorical data. This procedure has been implemented using an interface between REALCOM and MLwiN. The software and a manual can be downloaded. The methodology is described in a paper on mixed multivariate responses that has now been published in Statistical Modelling. The software has now been updated to handle weighted imputations.
A fully downloadable collection of all my published papers 1963-2010 is now available here.
The first issue of a new on-line international journal "Longitudinal and Life Course Studies" appeared in May 2009. Published by Longview it has a distinguished panel of referees and is free for both authors and readers. Register and view papers.
Multilevel Statistical Models Third Edition (2003) Download latest updates and datasets. A fourth edition, published by Wiley, is scheduled for the end of 2010.

My web pages - selected contents

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Presentations on various topics - A selection of recent powerpoint presentations, mainly given at conferences - to be populated.
LGROW is freely available software for calculating longitudinal child growth norms.
Commentaries on current issues in Education. - Using understandings based upon research, these commentaries are responses to official documents and pronouncements about educational policy.
Brief curriculum vitae. - Basic personal details, professional activities, awards and research projects.

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Multilevel Statistical Models Second Edition (1995)

You can also now download, free, a complete electronic version of the 1995 edition of the book. Click here for a zipped version in WORD format or here for a complete PDF version

Some useful web sites

Education-line electronic database - This is a database for the grey literature in educational research. It has been set up by the British Educational Research Association to make available speedily unpublished papers, read at conferences or work in progress, including critical evaluations of current issues. Serious researchers are invited to contribute. To access it (as part of a database devoted to a wider effort to disseminate social research findings).
Department for children, schools and families - DCSF
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills - DIUS
Office for Standards in Education - OFSTED
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - QCA