"Item Response Theory (IRT) is, increasingly, the psychometric method used for contemporary psychological tests. The goal of this book is to explain IRT. The book is especially useful to psychologists and social scientists familiar with small-scale cognitive and personality measures, of those who want to use IRT to analyze scales used in their own research. It is also useful for graduate students and practitioners who want to understand the contemporary, psychometric foundations of the tests they administer. Familiar psychological concepts are used to help explain various IRT principles. The book develops an intuitive understanding of IRT principles through its use of graphical displays and analysis of psychological principles."--Jacket.

Walking the reader through the steps of statistical tests and providing data sets and screen shots from SPSS, this student-friendly book helps students to successfully use statistical tests in SPSS, interpret the results and also to understand statistical concepts

This special issue on multilevel models includes articles that examine the analysis of community-based interventions on drug and alcohol use and the application of MLM to address design and statistical issues in the evaluation of large-scale, multi-site intervention programs. Both these articles have didactic elements and are laudatory in their clarity of presenting difficult concepts to beginning audiences.The next two articles deal with developmental and longitudinal data analyses that focus on addressing issues in developmental psychology and a broader class of statistical models. The final two articles are highly innovative applications of the MLM. They consider the evaluation of mediated effects in a multilevel context and examples of MLM in a psychiatric context that addresses several challenging statistical problems in MLM analysis. Since mediation is fundamental to science, this is a critically important contribution to the MLM literature.

This Book, titled, "From Hospital To High" or "Here Is A Steve", A Story of Steven Reise, Plus, Poetry Analysis and Poems by yours truly, Steven Paul Reise, actually consists of three separate sections. Section 1, as I will refer to it, consists of the Foreword/Introduction/Acknowledgements/Philosophies and Page 1 of Volume 1 of my memoir, "Here Is A Steve". This first volume, probably of four or five volumes of the autobiography of my life, is comprised of: 1. Earliest Memories (of my childhood) and, 2. Scrap Book Years, entailing my scholastic and athletic achievements up to and including high school. Section 2: Is "my first book ever", and is entitled, "From Hospital To High". This book was written by me, sometime in the 6th grade of elementary school. As I would enter junior HIGH school the following year, this is the significance of "High". This would have taken place sometime in the fall of 1969 and spring of 1970. This book encompasses the years from my birth to the age of twelve. Section 3: Has a cover with labels stating: Steve Reise English Poetry Notebook The poetry notebook was written in Junior High School around 1970-1972. It has six original poems of different forms of poetry, authored by, again, yours truly, Steven Reise around the age of thirteen or fourteen. The notebook also contains analysis of poetry types written by notable poets, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Howard Nemerov, Ernest Kroll, John Ciardi, and one poem by an anonymous author. This book is not the end. It is just the beginning of a series of books I plan to write in the future. As I have stated, I will be writing a memoir of my life which may encapsulate four or five volumes. Volume 1 should be published in early spring of of 2024. As I had some forms of relationships with women from Russia; Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, most recently, three women from the former Soviet/Russia satellite country, Kazakhstan, I would like to write of my experiences with these interesting women. Without further ado, here we go...