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This research paper examines the use of hierarchical linear modeling to analyze higher education data regarding student satisfaction. Specifically, it studies the relationship between student satisfaction within academic departments and the influence of student-level and institutional-level factors. The paper models student satisfaction as being affected by individual student characteristics as well as department characteristics, demonstrating hierarchical linear modeling is better suited than ordinary least squares for this type of nested educational data.

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This research paper examines the use of hierarchical linear modeling to analyze higher education data regarding student satisfaction. Specifically, it studies the relationship between student satisfaction within academic departments and the influence of student-level and institutional-level factors. The paper models student satisfaction as being affected by individual student characteristics as well as department characteristics, demonstrating hierarchical linear modeling is better suited than ordinary least squares for this type of nested educational data.

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A Hierarchical Linear Modeling

Approach To Higher Education


Research :
The Influence Of Student And
Institutional Characteristics
This research paper is basically written with the central idea of showing how multi level
modeling is a more appropriate way of dealing with data that is of hierarchical or
structured nature. Generally the ordinary least square method is used to analyze such data
but it gives out results that are misleading and incorrect.

Multi level modeling ,also known as hierarchical linear modeling a type of modeling
approach that uses linear models for dealing with structured data. In this type of
approach, the target population is studied by forming different levels with in the
population and studying the variation of characteristics between and within different
levels. Data is nested into levels and groups for this purpose. Multilevel models extend to
handle situations where there are multiple classifications arranged in nested, crossed and
multiple membership relations

In this paper the area that has been targeted to be studied using hierarchical linear
modeling is the educational research problems. A lot of research is being carried out now
a days on studying the behaviors and patterns of students from different perspectives .
various organizations collect massive data on different characteristics of students which is
used in researches on students. Author suggests that the most appropriate way of dealing
with such massive large scale secondary data ,in order to study and use it for desired
investigation, is through the use of multi level linear modeling approach.

In this paper, the author is studying the relationship between the student satisfaction of
faculty in his major/department and the influence of student and institutional level factors
on it. Measuring student satisfaction is critical to the institute as it helps in their retention.
Institutes want to arrange their resources in a way to keep students involved in academic
activities and provide them satisfaction. Surveys are important in this regard to get
information on students perception about campus life .But for fully understanding the
factors that effect students satisfaction, both student and institutional level data are
important .This study is based on belief that student satisfaction is best understood under
multilevel phenomena

The population is studied at two levels


1. individual level
2. major/department level
level 1 is nested within level 2

Major / department

Individual
student

institute

Level 2
Dept 1 Dept 2 Dept 3

Level 1 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 4

Student satisfaction at individual level is a function of :


Characteristics and experiences of students within their departments

Student satisfaction at department level is a function of :


Characteristics of departments & impact of these characteristics on
Individuals within each department
Dependent variable:
Student satisfaction of faculty within department
Individual level variable:
Effect of student’s background in terms of graduate on post graduate
Institutional level variable:
Effects of department level variables on satisfaction level.
Limitations:
• only a few related variables are being studied
• limited usage of HLM principles

The models used in the paper are :


• random intercept model
• random slope model
• interclass correlation statistics

Software used to solve the data are


• MLwin
• SPSS

For study and understanding of this paper we also read following articles:
• Why use multilevel modelling?
By:Jon Rasbash
• The Effects of High School Organization on
Dropping Out: An Exploratory Investigation
By:Anthony S. Bryk and Yeow Meng Thum
University of'Chicago

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