Harvey Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 104858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3878-4122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 546 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Complementary Effect of an Educational Website for Children and Adolescents with Primary Headaches in Tertiary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Background/Objectives : Tension-type headache and migraine are common among children and adolescents, often causing significant distress and persisting into adulthood. While outpatient pain therapy is essential, it is not always sufficient. To enhance initial therapy consultations, we evaluated a new educational website in a pediatric outpatient pain clinic. Methods : Ninety-three children with headache ( M age = 12.66, SD age = 2.86) visiting a …
Assessing data linkage quality in cohort studies
Background: Linkage of administrative data sources provides an efficient means of collecting detailed data on how individuals interact with cross-sectoral services, society, and the environment. These data can be used to supplement conventional cohort studies, or to create population-level electronic cohorts generated solely from administrative data. However, errors occurring during linkage (false matches/missed matches) can lead to bias in resul…
The importance of adjusting for pupil background in school value‐added models: A study of Progress 8 and school accountability in England
In the UK , USA and elsewhere, school accountability systems increasingly compare schools using value‐added measures of school performance derived from pupil scores in high‐stakes standardised tests. Rather than naïvely comparing school average scores, which largely reflect school intake differences in prior attainment, these measures attempt to compare the average progress or improvement pupils make during a year or phase of schooling. Schools, …
The evolution of school league tables in England 1992–2016: ‘Contextual value‐added’, ‘expected progress’ and ‘progress 8’
Since 1992, the UK Government has published so‐called ‘school league tables’ summarising the average General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) ‘attainment’ and ‘progress’ made by pupils in each state‐funded secondary school in England. While the headline measure of school attainment has remained the percentage of pupils achieving five or more good GCSE s, the headline measure of school progress has changed from ‘value‐added’ (2002–2005)…
Challenges in administrative data linkage for research
Linkage of population-based administrative data is a valuable tool for combining detailed individual-level information from different sources for research. While not a substitute for classical studies based on primary data collection, analyses of linked administrative data can answer questions that require large sample sizes or detailed data on hard-to-reach populations, and generate evidence with a high level of external validity and applicabili…
Trends in examination performance and exposure to standardised tests in England and Wales
Schools in England and Wales since the late 1980s have been compared in terms of their performances in public examinations and standardised test scores in the form of ‘school league tables’, with Wales ceasing to produce these after 2001. One of the factors related to performance in examinations is the choice of the examination board, with five main boards currently active in England and Wales. In this paper, we study differences in student uptak…
Rasch measurement: A response to Payanides, Robinson and Tymms
A response is made to a paper that urges the use of the Rasch model for educational assessment. This paper argues that the model is inadequate and that claims for its efficacy are exaggerated and technically weak
After the RCT: Who comes to a family-based intervention for childhood overweight or obesity when it is implemented at scale in the community
BACKGROUND: When implemented at scale, the impact on health and health inequalities of public health interventions depends on who receives them in addition to intervention effectiveness. METHODS: The MEND 7-13 (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it!) programme is a family-based weight management intervention for childhood overweight and obesity implemented at scale in the community. We compare the characteristics of children referred to the MEND prog…
Epilogue
Knowledge and numbers in education
This special issue takes as its core theme the relationship between knowledge and numbers in education, with a particular emphasis on the diverse forms of knowledge that emerge from the collection
Likelihood Estimation in Multilevel Models
The Quality of Planning Scholarship and Doctoral Education
The article links the nature of planning as a discipline, the quality of planning scholarship, and the training of our doctoral students in research methods. Deficiencies in research methods training that were identified by the Commission on the Doctorate in 1993 probably have not been ameliorated and may have expanded. A set of recommendations for the steps that doctoral programs could take to ameliorate the deficiencies are provided
Opening the black box of record linkage
The UK government's plan for a secure data service— Strengthening the international competitiveness of UK life sciences research —will transform the availability of linked electronic health records to support service provision, planning and research. In April 2012, the new Clinical Practice Research Datalink was established to provide linked national e-health records, facilitating large-scale, population-based research and service evaluation. Suc…
Response to “Letter to the Editors: Inside Baseball”
Multilevel Statistical Models
This book provides a clear introduction to this important area of statistics. The author provides a wide of coverage of different kinds of multilevel models, and how to interpret different statistical methodologies and algorithms applied to such models. This 4th edition reflects the growth and interest in this area and is updated to include new chapters on multilevel models with mixed response types, smoothing and multilevel data, models with cor…
To What Extent is Academic Entrepreneurship Taken for Granted Within Research Universities
The Use and Valuation of Journals in Planning Scholarship: Peer Assessment versus Impact Factors
A Web-based survey of faculty at all ACSP schools is used to assess the value peers place on various journals. The results of the survey show that two journals—the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Planning Education and Research—dominate all others in importance. The authors analyze the survey data to identify how the relative valuation of journals differs by individual faculty or institutional characteristics. The …
Transitioning to the New Economy: Individual, Regional and Intermediation Influences on Workforce Retraining Outcomes
Goldstein H. A., Lowe N. and Donegan M. Transitioning to the new economy: individual, regional and intermediation influences on workforce retraining outcomes, Regional Studies. The problem of helping workers employed in older manufacturing sectors shift to jobs in growing, high-technology sectors continues to frustrate workforce and economic development officials. An innovative retraining programme in North Carolina has been instituted to train f…
Which Indicators Explain Metropolitan Economic Performance Best? Traditional or Creative Class
Problem: As Richard Florida's writings about the creative class garnered attention across the globe, planners and local government officials responded by enacting policies to attract and retain creative workers, often favoring spending for amenity and lifestyle attractions over more established economic development approaches. It is not clear, however, if the presence of these workers drives regional growth and development as effectively as more …
Comment peut-on utiliser les études comparatives internationales pour doter les politiques éducatives d’informations fiables
This paper reviews some of the methodological issues surrounding international studies of comparative educational achievement. It is argued that many of the claims made for these studies are unjustified and that their use for guiding educational policy is limited, especially because they lack longitudinal data on students
Assessing the Regional Economic Development Impacts of Universities: A Review of Current Approaches
Research universities in the United States have increasingly become involved in economic development since the mid-1980s. There has been a corresponding growth of interest in measuring the impacts of higher education on regional economies. This article reviews the approaches used to examine the influence of research universities on regional economic development outcomes. Considerable attention is paid to the methodological advantages and shortcom…
A brief response to Gorard and Fitz
An Experiment in the Internationalization of Planning Education: The Neurus Program
This article describes a new multi-institutional program in international planning education and exchange—the Network for European-U.S. Regional and Urban Studies—within the broader context of the continuing internationalization of graduate-level professional planning curricula. Using student exit interviews and an institutional survey, the outcomes and impacts of this program on participating students, on the departments involved, and on the par…
Compact, Diffuse, or Would-be Discipline: Assessing Cohesion in Planning Scholarship, 1963-2002
Some scholars maintain that academic planning has strayed from its technical and professional roots by becoming more aligned with the social sciences. Others suggest that the discipline has failed to develop a cogent identity. The authors evaluate these assertions by studying articles published in the Journal of the American Planning Association between 1963 and 2002. The authors' analysis confirms that academic planning has become more scientifi…
Changing compatibility of cohabitation and childbearing between young British women born in 1958 and 1970
We investigate the effect of parenthood on whether non-marital unions led to marriage or parting for two cohorts of British women when they were aged between 16 and 29. We compare the effect of conceptions leading to births and the presence and characteristics of children on the odds that a cohabitation was dissolved, or that it was converted to marriage, for women born in 1958 and 1970. A multilevel, multiprocess, competing-risks model allows fo…
Multilevel Statistical Models
This book provides a clear introduction to this important area of statistics. The author provides a wide of coverage of different kinds of multilevel models, and how to interpret different statistical methodologies and algorithms applied to such models. This 4th edition reflects the growth and interest in this area and is updated to include new chapters on multilevel models with mixed response types, smoothing and multilevel data, models with cor…
The relationship between childbearing and transitions from marriage and cohabitation in Britain
In this article, we describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, with an application to a study of partnership transitions and fertility among a cohort of British women. Using a multilevel, multistate competing-risks model, we examine the relationship between prior fertility outcomes (the presence and characteristics of children and current pregnancy) and the dissolution of marital and cohabiting unions and movemen…
Multilevel Cross-Classified Models
Random cross-classifications of units can arise at any level of a data hierarchy. For example, school students may be classified both by the schools they attend and their neighborhoods of residence. This article explores the issues of efficiently modeling such data and gives an example from a study of parental choice of schools
Education for all: The globalization of learning targets
It is argued that the ambitious programme 'Education for All', launched by UNESCO, could be seriously undermined by its reliance upon the achievement of numerical 'targets'. Evidence from existing attempts by countries to impose educational targets reveals undesirable side-effects and distortions of educational systems. The paper explores some of the possible consequences of UNESCO's adherence to such targets
New Statistical Methods for Analysing Social Structures: An introduction to multilevel models
An introductory account is given of developments in multilevel modelling of educational and other social data. The technique is introduced with some simple examples and its importance is explained. Examples of applications in a number of areas are given, including repeated measures designs, school effectiveness studies, area‐based studies and political opinion sample surveys. Almost all data collected in the social sciences have some form of inhe…
Contributions of Universities to Regional Economic Development: A Quasi-experimental Approach
Goldstein H. A. and Renault C. S. (2004) Contributions of universities to regional economic development: a quasi-experimental approach, Regional Studies38, 733-746. Universities potentially contribute to regional economic development in a number of ways: research, creation of human capital through teaching, technology development and transfer, and co-production of a favourable milieu. We find that the research and technology creation functions ge…
Challenges in administrative data linkage for research
Linkage of population-based administrative data is a valuable tool for combining detailed individual-level information from different sources for research. While not a substitute for classical studies based on primary data collection, analyses of linked administrative data can answer questions that require large sample sizes or detailed data on hard-to-reach populations, and generate evidence with a high level of external validity and applicabili…
Changing compatibility of cohabitation and childbearing between young British women born in 1958 and 1970
We investigate the effect of parenthood on whether non-marital unions led to marriage or parting for two cohorts of British women when they were aged between 16 and 29. We compare the effect of conceptions leading to births and the presence and characteristics of children on the odds that a cohabitation was dissolved, or that it was converted to marriage, for women born in 1958 and 1970. A multilevel, multiprocess, competing-risks model allows fo…
The evolution of school league tables in England 1992–2016: ‘Contextual value‐added’, ‘expected progress’ and ‘progress 8’
Since 1992, the UK Government has published so‐called ‘school league tables’ summarising the average General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) ‘attainment’ and ‘progress’ made by pupils in each state‐funded secondary school in England. While the headline measure of school attainment has remained the percentage of pupils achieving five or more good GCSE s, the headline measure of school progress has changed from ‘value‐added’ (2002–2005)…
Knowledge and numbers in education
This special issue takes as its core theme the relationship between knowledge and numbers in education, with a particular emphasis on the diverse forms of knowledge that emerge from the collection
Using Pupil Performance Data for Judging Schools and Teachers: Scope and limitations
The article reviews ways in which performance data are currently used within the England and Wales education system. It uses research evidence to critique many of these uses and presents some alternative proposals for a more rational approach
The use of birthweight and gestation to assess perinatal mortality risk
Using extensive international data it is shown in detail how mortality is related to birthweight and gestation. It is demonstrated that the widely used 'birthweight for length of gestation' standards can be seriously misleading. A new 'high risk' classification is proposed
Consequences of Using the Rasch Model for Educational Assessment
Are class size differences related to pupils' educational progress and classroom processes? findings from the institute of education class size study of children aged 5–7 years
Despite evidence from the USA that children in small classes of less than 20 do better academically there is still a vociferous debate about the effects of class size differences in schools, and considerable gaps in our understanding of the effects of class size differences. This article summarises results from the most complete UK analysis to date of the educational consequences of class size differences. The study had two aims: first, to establ…
Multilevel Models in the Study of Dynamic Household Structures
Compact, Diffuse, or Would-be Discipline: Assessing Cohesion in Planning Scholarship, 1963-2002
Some scholars maintain that academic planning has strayed from its technical and professional roots by becoming more aligned with the social sciences. Others suggest that the discipline has failed to develop a cogent identity. The authors evaluate these assertions by studying articles published in the Journal of the American Planning Association between 1963 and 2002. The authors' analysis confirms that academic planning has become more scientifi…
A Study of Class Size Effects in English School Reception Year Classes
This article reviews the existing evidence on the relationship between class size and achievement for children in their first years of schooling. It then describes a large‐scale longitudinal study of such children within English Local Education Authorities and presents results for achievement progress in literacy and mathematics during the reception year. Using a series of multilevel models, it is shown that there is a relationship with size of c…
Changes and improvements in schools’ effectiveness: Trends over five years
It is widely assumed that some schools improve more rapidly than others. However, unlike the well‐established finding that schools differ in their effectiveness, evidence that schools improve at different rates is sparse. Using data on pupils’ examination results and prior achievements from five cohorts of pupils passing through over 30 schools in one LEA, the study considers three questions. First, the extent to which some schools improve more r…
A Multilevel Factor Model for Mixed Binary and Ordinal Indicators of Women's Status
The authors present a factor model for the analysis of categorical responses with a two-level hierarchical structure. The model allows for multiple, potentially correlated factors at each level as well as covariate effects on the responses. Estimation using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods is described. The methodology is applied in an analysis of women's status in Bangladesh. Two dimensions of women's status are considered-social independ…
Graded Assessment and Learning Hierarchies in Mathematics
The Graded Assessment in Mathematics (GAIM) project has sought legitimation, at least in part, by appealing to notions of child‐centred learning. At the same time, in order to gain acceptance, it has attached itself to a certification procedure, namely the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). This paper argues that the demands imposed by the needs of certification are irreconcilable with a requirement for child‐focused ‘diagnostic’ …
A study of services and needs of teenage pregnant girls in the large cities of the United States
A study of services and needs of teenage pregnant girls in the large cities of the United States. H M Wallace, E M Gold, H Goldstein, and A C OglesbyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.1.5 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The importance of adjusting for pupil background in school value‐added models: A study of Progress 8 and school accountability in England
In the UK , USA and elsewhere, school accountability systems increasingly compare schools using value‐added measures of school performance derived from pupil scores in high‐stakes standardised tests. Rather than naïvely comparing school average scores, which largely reflect school intake differences in prior attainment, these measures attempt to compare the average progress or improvement pupils make during a year or phase of schooling. Schools, …
To What Extent is Academic Entrepreneurship Taken for Granted Within Research Universities
A note on national assessment and school comparisons
Transitioning to the New Economy: Individual, Regional and Intermediation Influences on Workforce Retraining Outcomes
Goldstein H. A., Lowe N. and Donegan M. Transitioning to the new economy: individual, regional and intermediation influences on workforce retraining outcomes, Regional Studies. The problem of helping workers employed in older manufacturing sectors shift to jobs in growing, high-technology sectors continues to frustrate workforce and economic development officials. An innovative retraining programme in North Carolina has been instituted to train f…
A study of services and needs of teenage pregnant girls in the large cities of the United States
A study of services and needs of teenage pregnant girls in the large cities of the United States. H M Wallace, E M Gold, H Goldstein, and A C OglesbyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.1.5 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The maternity home: Present services and future roles
The maternity home: present services and future roles. H M Wallace, H Goldstein, E M Gold, and A C OglesbyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.6.568 Published Online: October 07, 2011
New systems for dental maturity based on seven and four teeth
An updated system for estimating dental maturity is presented. It extends the original system (Demirjian et al., 1973) based on radiographs of 7 teeth by including two extra stages, and by enlarging the standardizing sample to include 2407 boys and 2349 girls. Percentile standards from ages 2-5 to 17-0 years are presented separately for boys and girls. Scoring systems and percentile standards are presented for two different sets of 4 teeth and a …
Smoking in pregnancy: Some notes on the statistical controversy
The statistical evidence for a relationship between pregnancy smoking, birthweight, and perinatal mortality is critically examined. Some apparent discrepancies between and within different studies are resolved
Regression to the mean
The notion of “regression to the mean” is widely misunderstood. This paper explains the concept in simple terms and shows how it arises in studies of mental and physical development
A method for studying shape change in children
A method is given measuring shape change with age, utilizing two dimensional body outlines. Problems of standardization for overall size are discussed and it is shown how the method can be used to draw D'Arcy Thompson-type transformation grids. The method is applied to serial measurements on a girl from 31/2 to 19 years of age
The use of birthweight and gestation to assess perinatal mortality risk
Using extensive international data it is shown in detail how mortality is related to birthweight and gestation. It is demonstrated that the widely used 'birthweight for length of gestation' standards can be seriously misleading. A new 'high risk' classification is proposed
Consequences of Using the Rasch Model for Educational Assessment
The Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Studies: Their Role in the Measurement of Change
The effects of age grouping on the estimate of a correlation coefficient
When a correlation coefficient is calculated between two growth measurements over an age range, a biased estimate of the ‘instantaneous’ correlation is obtained. A correction formula is given.ZusammenfassungWenn ein Korrelationskoeffizient zwischen zwei Wachstumsmaßen über eine Altersspanne berechnet wird, ergibt sich eine fehlerhafte Schätzung der “Augenblicks”-Korrelation. Es wird eine Korrekturformel gegeben.RésuméQuand un coefficient de corré…
The Recall Method in Social Surveys
Physical Anthropology: Secular Trends in Human Growth, Maturation, and Development. Alex F. Roche
The Rasch Model Still Does Not Fit
Certain criticisms of the use of the Rasch model have been queried in a paper by Bryce. We argue that these criticisms not only remain valid, but are reinforced by recent research on latent trait models. In particular, Bryce fails to present a clear conceptual argument and adopts a very inefficient procedure for testing empirically the fit of the Rasch model
Multilevel mixed linear model analysis using iterative generalized least squares
Models for the analysis of hierarchically structured data are discussed. An iterative generalized least squares estimation procedure is given and shown to be equivalent to maximum likelihood in the normal case. There is a discussion of applications to complex surveys, longitudinal data, and estimation in multivariate models with missing responses. An example is given using educational data.
Efficient statistical modelling of longitudinal data
A new class of statistical models is proposed for the analysis of longitudinal data, especially those from growth studies. The models are all derived from a simple univariate two-level polynomial model. It is shown that they make efficient use of available data, and can handle a very wide range of problems. They have several important advantages over existing procedures
Sexual dimorphism in mandibular growth of French‐Canadian children 6 to 10 years of age
Polynomial regression is used to model the mandibular growth of 28 girls and 26 boys who were followed longitudinally from 6 to 10 years of age. The pooled‐within individual designs indicate that ramus height follows a linear pattern of size increase; corpus and total mandibular lengths display curvilineal, decelerating, patterns of growth over the age range. Multivariate analyses of variance reveal significant sex differences in size, favoring b…
A note on national assessment and school comparisons
Pubertal growth of the cephalometric point gnathion: Multilevel models for boys and girls
Two‐level polynomial models are used to summarize the amount Sella‐Gnathion (S‐Gn) and direction Nasion‐Sella‐Gnathion (N‐S‐Gn) of growth changes for the cephalometric landmark gnathion. Growth descriptions pertain to a mixed longitudinal sample of 209 French‐Canadian children 10–15 years of age. The boy's growth curve attains mean minimum prepubertal velocity at 10.8 years and maximum pubertal velocity at 14.1 years. The girl's curve follows a c…
Federal Labor Protections and the Privatization of Public Transit
Federal transportation officials assert that labor protections in the Urban Mass Transportation Act inhibit the propensity of local transit agencies to contract with private firms for services. The authors present results from a survey of a large sample of transit managers and econometric analysis to support their conclusion that labor protections do not appear to reduce the incidence of contracting. The labor protections, however, may be costly …
Graded Assessment and Learning Hierarchies in Mathematics
The Graded Assessment in Mathematics (GAIM) project has sought legitimation, at least in part, by appealing to notions of child‐centred learning. At the same time, in order to gain acceptance, it has attached itself to a certification procedure, namely the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). This paper argues that the demands imposed by the needs of certification are irreconcilable with a requirement for child‐focused ‘diagnostic’ …
Non-parametric estimation of age-related centiles over wide age ranges
A new method for estimating age-related centile curves has been developed, which is suitable for measurement covering a wide age range. The method was used to calculate weight centile curves of 8995 children from birth to 6 years obtained by the Collaborating Centre for Physical Growth and Psychosocial Development of Children in Shanghai, China
Methodological Advances Catch up with Common Educational Research Designs
New Statistical Methods for Analysing Social Structures: An introduction to multilevel models
An introductory account is given of developments in multilevel modelling of educational and other social data. The technique is introduced with some simple examples and its importance is explained. Examples of applications in a number of areas are given, including repeated measures designs, school effectiveness studies, area‐based studies and political opinion sample surveys. Almost all data collected in the social sciences have some form of inhe…
University‐Based Research Parks as a Rural Development Strategy
Multilevel models for repeated measures: A flexible approach for studying dental arch morphology
Traditional OLS and recently developed multilevel IGLS statistical techniques for analyzing repeated measures are compared and contrasted. Comparisons are based on arch width measurements for a mixed‐longitudinal sample of 166 boys and girls. The multilevel IGLS procedures produce estimates that are more stable and meaningful than OLS estimates; sex differences are consistent for both the deciduous and permanent dentitions, maxillary widths are r…
Psychology (35 works) · Computer Science (31 works) · Mathematics (29 works) · Political science (29 works) · Statistics (28 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Economics (17 works) · Mathematics education (17 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Econometrics (15 works)