Major Research Tasks 1/13-1/18

1. Dr. Elliott: Read Paper Grosso et al. (2013) and see whether the factor analysis procedure can be reproduced in our data.
2. Dr. Clemens: Comment on Yeo et al. (2012) and test unspecified latent growth model with multilevel assumption.
3. Dr. Yoon: Summary for at least 3 MI papers.
4. Cao: Summary for at least 2 relevant papers.
5. Dr. Bowman: treat the outcome as continuous variables and re-run the analysis.

Course Schedule Overview

2012 Fall
EPSY 640 Experimental Design I
EPSY 622 Measurement and Evaluation in Education
EPSY 691 Research


2013 Spring
EPSY 641 Experimental Design II
EPSY 625 Advanced Psychometric Theory
EPSY 651 Theory of Structural Equation Modeling
SOCI 631 Quantitative Method in Educaiton


2013 Summer
EPSY 691 Research


2013 Fall
EPSY 642 Meta-Analysis
EPSY 653 Advanced Structural Equation Modeling
EPSY 655 Item Response Theory
STAT 607 Sampling


2014 Spring
EPSY 689 Qualitative Research Design and Data Collection
EPSY 652 Theory in HLM
STAT 659 Applied Categorical Data Analysis


2014 Summer
STAT 604 Topics in Statistical Computation
EPSY 602 Educational Psychology

2014 Fall
EPSY 636 Techniques of Research
STAT 630 Overview of Math Statistics
STAT 657 Advance Programming Using SAS
STAT 636 Methods in Multivariate Analysis

2014初研究進度一覽

經過了有點混亂的2013 Fall之後（處理人生大事、陸續接了三個研究計畫、第一次修統計系課的震撼教育），荒廢已久的網誌終於要在2014年開始動工了。

看了前一次的發文，是去年的七月。這半年的時間在Meta Analysis、IRT、Multilevel SEM、Sampling Weight上增進了不少知識，也日益發覺資料分析與論文撰寫的有趣。

目前手上的研究與進度如下(主題─主要分析法─合作學者─進度)：

1. Psychometric properties of the SF-36 in heroin abusers -- IRT -- Dr. Hsieh -- Paper submitted
2. Psychometric properties of the SESTOF -- CFA -- Jennifer & Kayla -- Discussion
3. Relationship between misbehavior and consequence in children -- logistic regression & SEM -- Dr. Bowman -- Analysis
4. Investigating the health status of after-combat veteran -- cluster analysis & SEM -- Dr. Elliott -- Analysis
5. The impact of misspecifying residual structure on LGM -- simulation -- Luxi & Shuqiong -- Analysis
6. Relationship between parenting and children's academic achievement -- meta-analysis -- Cao -- Literature review
7. Kindergarten reading progress monitoring -- LGM -- Dr. Clemens -- Analysis
8. MI for IRT and CFA -- Dr. Yoon -- Literature Review
9. Scale format  effect on MI -- CFA & IRT -- Dr. Yao -- Paper Revised & Analysis
10. Comparison between sampling weight and multilevel analysis -- MI -- Dr. Kwok -- Literature review

計畫很多，但真正快到完成階段的只有三個(1, 2, 9)，其餘大部分都僅在分析或是文獻回顧階段。2014，要做的Project、要讀的書、要寫的文章也更多了，看來要更鞭策自己才是。 

所以，來發願吧！

• 每天都要進行與文章撰寫有關的工作，記錄每天進度並每週追蹤成果。
• 分析盡量於合作學者委任工作後的兩週內完成(3, 4, 7)。
• 所有計畫的文獻回顧應於八月前完成，並進入分析階段(6, 8, 10)。
• 除1已投稿之外，八月底前再完成四篇投稿(2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10擇四)。

Dream big, achieve more. 2014 加油！