Abstract
Modeling Context: To Kansas and Beyond
A child’s home life, local politics, grade promotion, youth sports — nearly everything in our immediate, changing and future environments affect individual behavior. This presentation will discuss methodological possibilities and psychometric considerations of the proximal and distal influences of multiple interacting systems in our environments.
Particular attention will be given to operationalizing contexts, validating latent measures of context and its effects, and disentangling the context from the individual.
Details
Date, Time, & Location
Friday, October 23, 2020
12:00-1:30 PM
Zoom videoconference
Presentation: Modeling Context: To Kansas and Beyond
Zoom videoconference
Presentation: Modeling Context: To Kansas and Beyond
This virtual presentation is free and open to the public.
Join the Zoom videoconference Oct. 23.
James Bovaird
Director, Nebraska Academy of Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics
James Bovaird is the founding director of the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has significant statistical consulting experience, especially with designs requiring hierarchical, multilevel and structural equation modeling.
Bovaird's research interests focus on methodological applications and innovations in the use of advanced multivariate techniques in the social sciences, especially in education and psychology. He has authored several methodological book chapters, edited a compilation on longitudinal methods in the presence of contextual effects and authored several methodological articles in major quantitative and substantive journals.
Full Biography