Product Description: Researchers across the social sciences who are interested in change and development can now draw on a rich array of longitudinal resources to help them answer their questions. The combination of theory, data and modern methods of statistical analysis can be used to describe, to predict and to generate causal explanations...read more

Product Description: This paper sets out a framework for evaluating interventions which are designed to promote lifelong learning and to produce wider economic and non-economic benefits.

Product Description: Written at an intermediate level this book will appeal to researchers in education who have had an introduction to statistical ideas and who are interested in applying up-to-date statistical methods to their own data. The emphasis is on methods which recognize that educational data are often 'hierarchical' or 'multilevel', often 'longitudinal', usually 'observational' rather than 'experimental', often 'categorical' and usually having no fixed scale...read more

Product Description: A guide to the analysis of quantitative longitudinal data, emphasizing the difficult conceptual problems of measuring change with social science data. Aids in the construction of causal models using `real' longitudinal data from a broad range of contexts in the social sciences, including data relevant to educationalists, social and developmental psychologists, social administrators, sociologists, and political scientists...read more