Clarke, Paul; Crawford, Claire; Steele, Fiona; … - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010
We discuss the use of fixed and random effects models in the context of educational research and set out the …, the robustness of the fixed effects approach to the random effects assumption is attractive, and educational researchers … should consider using it, even if only to assess the robustness of estimates obtained from random effects models. On the …