Growth in receptive vocabulary among 4 to 8 year-olds: Using growth modelling with the LSAC K cohort (with Kylie Hillman and Clare Ozolins), Paper presented at the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) Conference (2009)

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Reporting and Comparing School Performances (with Geoff N. Masters, Glenn Rowley, and John Ainley), Assessment and Reporting Projects (2008)

Modeling Cross-level Interaction in Multilevel Analysis of Longitudinal Mediation Process (with J Cheong), Paper presented at the Society of Prevention Research, Annual Meeting (2008)

Statistical Modelling of Assessment and Educational Data from a progress monitoring perspective, Invited presentation at the Statistical Society of Australia, Victoria Branch (2008)

Putting Achievement growth in context: Methodological issues, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2007)

Analysing hierarchical data with multivariate outcomes: Beyond multilevel regression models, Invited presentation at Swinburne University (2007)

Moderating effects of a risk factor: Modeling longitudinal moderated mediation in the development of adolescent heavy drinking (with D B. Flora and L Chassin), Modeling Ecological and Contextual Effects in Longitudinal Studies (2007)

Monitoring Educational Progress Over Time: Goals and Opportunities, Invited presentation at the Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce 2007 Round table, Adelaide (2007)

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The VIT Program for Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers : Evaluation of Implementation in 2005. (with Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, and Jenny Wilkinson), Teacher Education (2007)

Analysing hierarchical data with multivariate outcomes: Beyond multilevel regression models, Paper presented at the ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference (2006)

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Literacy in the first three years of school : a longitudinal investigation (with Marion Meiers), Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (2006)

Latent Growth Curve Modelling and Applications, Pre-conference workshop conducted at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Melbourne Vic (2006)

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Growth in Literacy and Numeracy in the First Three Years of School. (with Marion Meiers, Ken Rowe, Andrew Stephanou, Prue Anderson, and Kathy Nolan), ACER Research Monographs (2006)

Attitudes to School, Educational Intentions and Participations (with John Ainley), Paper presented at the AERA Annual Meeting (2006)

Risk and Protective Factors Predictive of Adolescent Pregnancy: A Longitudinal, Prospective Study (with Patricia L. East and B T. Reyes), Applied Developmental Science (2006)

Symptoms of internalizing and externalizing problems: modeling recovery curves after the death of a parent (with S J. Schmiege, I N. Sandler, T S. Ayers, and S A. Wolchik), American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2006)

Putting Achievement Growth in Context: Modeling Individual Growth in Literacy and Numeracy (with Marion Meiers), Paper presented at the IX Social and Health Sciences Methodology Conference (2005)

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Attitudes, intentions and participation (with John Ainley), LSAY Research Reports (2005)

Growth Mixture Modelling: An Application in the Evaluation of a Randomized Prevention Trial (with J Cheong), Paper presented at the 2005 AERA Annual Meeting (2005)

Analysing Longitudinal Data on Families: A Multivariate Latent Growth Modelling Approach, Invited presentation at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne Vic (2005)

An Evaluation of the Schools for Innovation and Excellence Initiative in Victorian Government Schools (with Lawrence C. Ingvarson, Adrian Beavis, and Marion Meiers), Dr. Lawrence Ingvarson (2005)

Longitudinal methods (with Stephen G. West, Wei Wu, and Oi Man Kwok), Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology (2005)

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Longitudinal pathways linking family factors and sibling relationship qualities to adolescent substance use and sexual risk behaviors (with Patricia L. East), Journal of Family Psychology (2005)

Longitudinal Studies in Education: Applications and Opportunities, Invited presentation, Graduate School of Educational Measurement & Statistics, National Taichung University, Taiwan. Supported by Taiwan National Science Council (2005)

Longitudinal Moderated Mediation (with D Flora), Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2004)

A Latent Growth Modeling Approach to Mediation Analysis (with Jee-Won Cheong and D McKinnon), Structural Equation Modeling (2003)

The Existential Loneliness Questionnaire: background, development, and preliminary findings (with A Mayers and M Svartberg), Journal of Clinical Psychology (2002)

Recovery from a traumatic event: Issues in constructing recovery curves for longitudinal program evaluation, Paper presented at the Society of Prevention Research Annual Meeting (2002)

Differential item functioning of CESD depressive symptoms in the aging population (with M Okun and J Steinberg), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Psychological Association (2002)

Analysis of reading skills development from kindergarten through first grade: An application of growth mixture modeling to sequential processes (with B O. Muthén, D Francis, and C K. Boscardin), Multilevel Modeling: Methodological Advances, Issues, and Applications (2002)

General growth mixture modeling for randomized preventive interventions (with B O. Muthén, C H. Brown, K Masyn, B Jo, C C. Yang, C P. Wang, S Kellam, J Carlin, and J Liao), Biostatistics (2002)

Assessing program effects in the presence of treatment-baseline interactions: a latent curve approach, Psychological Methods (2001)

Latent growth modeling of a multidimensional construct (with J Butner), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (2001)

Modeling Growth: From Individual OLS Line Fitting to Hierarchical Linear Modeling (with A M. Calandrella), Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention (2000)

Longitudinal data on families: Growth modeling alternatives (with B O. Muthén), Multivariate Applications in Substance Use Research (2000)

The psychometrics of longitudinal measurements, Invited colloquium, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1999)

Measuring change, changing measurement: Implications for longitudinal studies, Paper presented at the Society of Prevention Research Annual Meeting (1998)

Assessing Program Effects in Longitudinal Studies, Paper presented at the NIMH sponsored Conference 'Integrating Statistical Methods with Prevention Research and Programs' (1998)

Latent growth modeling of developmentally evolving constructs: Modeling sequential processes (with B O. Muthén and D Francis), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1998)

Longitudinal studies of achievement growth using latent variable modeling (with B O. Muthén), Learning and Individual Differences (1998)

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Multidimensional description of subgroup differences in mathematics achievement data from the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (with B O. Muthén and G Nelson-Goff) (1997)

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Multilevel latent variable modeling in multiple populations (with B O. Muthén and J E. Gustafsson) (1997)

Investigating Interactions between intervention effects and individual and group characteristics (with B O. Muthén), Paper presented at the Prevention Science and Methodology Group Conference (1996)

Evaluating an intervention: A latent growth modeling approach (with B O. Muthén), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1996)

Symptom improvement and its temporal course in short-term dynamic psychotherapy - a growth curve analysis (with M Svartberg, M H. Seltzer, and T C. Stiles), Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1995)

Opportunity-to-Learn Effects on Achievement: Analytical Aspects (with B O. Muthén, L C. Huang, B Jo, G Nelson-Goff, J Novak, and J Shih), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (1995)

Calibrating essay markers with the partial credit model (with Geoff N. Masters), Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (1994)

Modeling gender differences in growth patterns of mathematics achievement over time, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1994)

Using the partial credit model to identify and adjust for differences among assessors (with Geoff N. Masters), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1994)

Quest: the interactive test analysis system (with Ray J. Adams and Siek Toon Khoo) (1993)

A review of some fit tests for Rasch models, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1992)

Displaying test Analyses with TITAN and Bigscale (with Ray J. Adams and J M. Linacre), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1992)

Computer adaptive testing : a feasibility study (with Geoff N. Masters and Ray J. Adams) (1992)

An investigation of the stability of a literacy variable over time: Implications for standards monitoring (with Geoff N. Masters), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (1991)

Profiles of learning: the Basic Skills Testing Program in New South Wales: 1989 (with Geoff N. Masters, Jan Lokan, Brian Doig, John Lindsey, Lynette Robinson, and Susan Zammit) (1990)

Measuring interest in mathematics (with P L. Gardner), Annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (1988)