Multilevel Modeling: Practical Examples to Illustrate a Special Case of SEM

Author Note: The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through grants R305D090024 (Paras D. Mehta, PI) and R305A10272 (Lee Branum-Martin, PI) to the University of Houston. The initial data collection was jointly funded by NICHD (HD39521) and IES (R305U010001) to UH (David J. Francis, PI). The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not represent views of these funding agencies. The author would like to thank Paras D. Mehta for his helpful guidance in writing this chapter. The author would like to acknowledge helpful feedback from Yaacov Petscher and Pat Taylor. Inquiries should be sent to Lee Branum-Martin, Georgia State University, Department of Psychology, PO Box 5010, Atlanta GA 30302-5010. [email protected]