Publications and technical reports:

Vevea, J.L., Clements, N.C., & Hedges, L.V. (1993). Assessing the effects of selection bias on validity data for the general aptitude test battery. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 981-987.

Vevea, J.L., & Hedges, L.V. (1995). A general linear model for estimating effect size in the presence of publication bias. Psychometrika, 60, 419-435.

Vevea, J.L. (1996). Some mathematical models for distance in memory. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago.

Hedges, L.V. & Vevea, J.L. (1996). Estimating effect size under publication bias: Small sample properties and robustness of a random effects selection model. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 21, 299-333.

Hedges, L.V. & Vevea, J.L. (1997). A study of equating in NAEP (NAEP Validity Studies). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research.

Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S., & Vevea, J. (1998). Environmental input and cognitive growth: A study using time period comparisons. Child Development, 69, 1012-1029.

Hedges, L.V. & Vevea, J.L. (1998). Fixed and random-effects models in meta-analysis. Psychological Methods, 3, 486-504.

Tang, R., Vevea, J.L., & Shaw, W.M., Jr. (1999). Towards the identification of the optimal number of relevance categories. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50, 254-264.

Vevea, J.L. (2000). Why representative research? (A methodological note.) Representative Research in Social Psychology, 24, 1-10.

Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L.V., & Vevea, J.L. (2000). Why do categories affect stimulus judgment? Journal of Experimental Psychology, General, 129, 220-241.

Hedges, L.V. & Vevea, J.L. (2001). Meta-analysis: Tools. In Smelser, N.J. & Baltes, P.B. (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 9724-9730. Oxford: Pergamon.

Wainer, H., Vevea, J.L., Camacho, F., Reeve, B., Rosa, K., Nelson, L., Swygert, K., & Thissen, D. (2001). Augmented Scores--``Borrowing Strength'' to Compute Scores Based on Small Numbers of Items. In Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (eds.), Test Scoring. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Gaertner, L., Sedikides, C., Vevea, J.L. & Iuzzini, J. (2002). The "I," the "we," and the "when:" a meta-analysis of motivational primacy in self-definition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 574-591.

Hallfors, D., Vevea, J., Iritani, B., Cho, H., Khatapoush, S. & Saxe, L., (2002). Truancy, grade point average and sexual activity: a meta-analysis of risk indicators for substance use. Journal of School Health, 72, 205-211

Woods, C.M., Vevea, J.L., Chambless, D.L. & Bayen, U.J. (2002). Are compulsive checkers impaired in memory? A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 9, 353-366.

Vevea, J.L., Edwards, M.C., Thissen, D., Reeve, B.B., Flora, D.B., Sathy, V., & Coon, C. (2002). User's Guide for Augment v.2: Empirical Bayes Subscore Augmentation Software. Electronic Research Memorandum #2002-2. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory.

Wildschut, T., Pinter, B., Vevea, J.L., Insko, C.A., & Schopler, J. (2003). Beyond the group mind: a quantitative review of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 698-722. (Winner of the 2003-2004 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9 of the APA.)

Hedges, L.V. & Vevea, J.L. (2005). Selection method approaches. In Rothstein, H., Sutton, A. & Borenstein, M. (eds.), Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Prevention, Assessment and Adjustments (pp. 145-174). Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley.

Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L. & Vevea, J.L. (2005). Pancultural self-enhancement reloaded: A meta-analytic reply to Heine. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 539-551.

Vevea, J.L. & Woods, C.M. (2005). Publication bias in research synthesis: Sensitivity analysis using a priori weight functions. Psychological Methods, 10, 428-443.

Edwards, M.C. & Vevea, J.L. (2006). An empirical Bayes approach to subscore augmentation: How much strength can we borrow? Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 31, 241-259.

Vevea, J.L. (2006). Recovering stimuli from memory: A statistical method for linking discrimination and reproduction responses. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59, 321-346.

Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M., Waterfall, H.R., Vevea, J.L. & Hedges, L.V. (2007). The varieties of speech to young children. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1062-1083.

Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L., & Vevea, J.L. (2007). The inclusion of theory-relevant moderators yields the same conclusions as Sedikides, Gaertner, and Vevea (2005): A meta-analytic reply to Heine, Kitayam, and Hamamura. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 59-67.

Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L. & Vevea, J. L. (2007). Evaluating the evidence for pancultural self-enhancement. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 201-203.

Orwin, R.G., & Vevea, J.L. (2009). Evaluating coding decisions. In Cooper, H., & Hedges, L.V., The Handbook of Research Synthesis (2nd Edition), 172-203. New York: Russel Sage Foundation.

Scott, J.A., Flinspach, S.L., Miller, T.F., Gage-Serio, O., & Vevea, J.L. (2009). An analysis of reclassified English learners, English learners and native English fourth graders on assessments of receptive and productive vocabulary. In Leander, K.M., Rowe, D.W., Dickinson, D.K., Hundley, M.K., Jimenez, R.T., & Risko, V.H. (Eds.), 58^th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 312-329. Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.

Huttenlocher, J., Watterfall, H.R., Vasilyeva, M., Vevea, J.L., & Hedges, L.V. (2010). Sources of variability in children's language growth. Cognitive Psychology, 61,343-365.

Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., & Vevea, J.L. (2010). Rare words in students' writing as a measure of vocabulary. In Jimenez, R., Risko, V., Hundley, M., & Rowe, D. (Eds.) 50^th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 187-200. Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.

Vevea, J.L., & Coburn, K.M. (2015). Maximum-likelihood methods for meta-analysis: A tutorial using R. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18, 329-347.

Coburn, K.M., & Vevea, J.L. (2015). Publication bias as a function of study characteristics. Psychological Methods, 20 310-30.

Zelinsky, N.A.M, Shadish, W.R., Vevea, J.L., & Kratochwill, T.R. (2016). A survey of publication preference of single-case design researchers when treatments have small or large effects. Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis, 49 656-73.

Montoya, M., Horton, R., Vevea, J.L., Citkowicz, M., & Lauber, E.A. (2017). A re-examination of the mere exposure effect: The influence of repeated exposure on recognition, familiarity, and liking. Psychological Bulletin . (Available on-line; print version soon.)

Citkowicz, M., & Vevea, J.L. (in press). A parsimonious weight function for modeling publication bias. Psychological Methods.

Conference presentations:

Vevea, J.L. (1994). A model for estimating effect size in the presence of publication bias. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans.

Vevea, J.L. (1994). Detecting and correcting for publication bias. Part of a presession workshop on statistical methods for meta-analysis presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Los Angeles.

Vevea, J.L., & Hedges, L.V. (1996). Meta-analysis under publication bias: compensating for selection in small data sets. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York.

Vevea, J.L., Billeaud, K., & Nelson, L. (1998). An empirical Bayes approach to subscore augmentation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society. Urbana, IL.

Vevea, J.L. (1999). A model-building approach to Q3 analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society. Lawrence, KA.

Vevea, J.L. (1999). Detecting and correcting for publication bias in meta-analysis. Paper presented at the Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Conference. Research Triangle Park, NC.

Hallfors, D., Vevea, J.L., Iritani, B. & Cho, H. (1999). Meta-analysis of school surveys to assess community prevention efforts. Poster presented at the National Institute on Drug Abuse conference, ``NIDA: Celebrating a Quarter Century of Scientific Progress.'' Bethesda, MD.

Hallfors, D., Vevea, J.L., Iritani, B., Khatapoush, S., Cho, H., & Schudel, K. (1999). Meta-analysis of school surveys to assess community prevention efforts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Chicago.

Vevea, J.L. & Hafdahl, A. R. (2000). Meta-analysis with stochastic conditional variances. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans.

Hallfors, D., Vevea, J.L., Iritani, B., Cho, H., Khatapoush, S., Schudel, K., & Pankratz, M. (2000). Meta-analysis of school surveys to assess community prevention efforts. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research. Montreal.

Vevea, J.L. & Reeve, B.B. (2000). An operational example of subscore augmentation with IRT-based scales. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society. Vancouver, BC.

Hedges, L.V. & Vevea, J.L. (2001). A study of equating in NAEP. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. Seattle.

Vevea, J.L. (2001). Publication bias in research synthesis: Sensitivity analysis using a priori weight functions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society. Valley Forge, PA.

Vevea, J.L. (2004). Complementary Methods for Research in Education II: Meet the Authors and Reviewers (Part A). Presidential Invited Session. Table 20: Meta-Analysis: the Quantitative Synthesis of Research Findings. (Chapter Reviewer.) Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association. San Diego.

Vevea, J.L. & Edwards, M. (2006). Who can benefit from subscore augmentation? Investigating the characteristics of simulees for whom augmented subscores are more accurate than non-augmented scores. Part of a symposium on Providing Diagnostic Information to Support Reform Efforts under NCLB, Lora Monfils, moderator, presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. San Francisco.

Betts, T.E., DeStigter, J., Hoover, M.A., Nguyen, D.V., Shelby, R.D. & Vevea, J.L. (2006). That is not the dot I saw: the category adjustment model and discrimination. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. New York.

Vevea, J.L. (2006). Models for variance components that depend on study characteristics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Cambridge, England.

Crawford, L.E., Jones, E.L. & Vevea, J.L. (2006). Using motor responses to form categories in a stimulus estimation task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Houston.

Vevea, J.L. (2007). Random-effects meta-analysis when the variance component depends on study characteristics. Invited symposium on Meta-Analysis--Current and Future Directions, Dena A. Pastor, chair, presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco.

Scott, J.A., Hoover, M., Flinspach, S.L., & Vevea, J.L. (2007). A multiple level assessment tool: Measuring word knowledge based on grade level materials. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference. Austin.

Vevea, J.L., & Citkowicz, M. (2008). Inference and estimation using conditionally random models: a Monte Carlo study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Corfu, Greece.

Scott, J.A., Vevea, J.L., Flinspach, S.L., Samway, K. Davies, & Miller, T.F. (2008). A rare-word analysis of fourth-grade writing: What does it say about ELs? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference. Orlando.

Citkowicz, M., & Vevea, J.L. (2009). Conditionally random interence in meta-analysis: a Monte Carlo study. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science. San Francisco.

Scott, J.A., Flinspach, S.L., Miller, T.F., Vevea, J.L., & Gage-Serio, O. (2009). Vocabulary growth over time: Results of a multiple-level vocabulary assessment based on grade-level materials. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference. Albuquerque.

Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., Miller, T.F., Vevea, J.L., & Zeamer, C. (2009). Rare words in students' writing as a measure of vocabulary. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference. Albuquerque.

Flinspach, S.L., Vevea, J.L., & Scott, J.A. (2010). VASE vocabulary assessment: a new tool for assessing fourth- and fifth-grade students. Poser presented at the annual Institute of Education Sciences Research Conference. National Harbor.

Vevea, J.L., & Citkowicz, M. (2010). Meta-analysis of growth curves from sample means. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Cartagena, Spain.

Scott, J.A., Vevea, J.L., & Flinspach, S.L. (2010). Vocabulary growth in fourth grade classrooms: a quantitative analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference/Literacy Research Association. Fort Worth.

Scott, J.A., Flinspach, S.L., & Vevea, J.L. (2011). Identifying and teaching vocabulary in fourth- and fifth-grade math and science. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association. Jacksonville.

Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., & Vevea, J.L. (2012). Where no elementary vocabulary test developer has gone before: Breaking new ground in test development. Paper presented at the Institute of Education Sciences Principal Investigator Meetings. Washington, D.C.

Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., & Vevea, J.L. (2012). Assessing breadth of academic vocabulary: testing "new" words from across the fourth-grade and fifth-grade curriculum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Vancouver, B.C.

Vevea, J.L., Scott, J.A., & Flinspach, S.L. (2012). Measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge with testlets: simultaneously assessing six aspects of word knowledge. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Vancouver, B.C.

Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., & Vevea, J.L. (2012). Insights into morphology: looking at student knowledge and the demands of text in fourth and fifth grade. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association. San Diego.

Scott, J.A., Flinspach, S.L., & Vevea, J.L. (2013). Vocabulary assessment in education (VASE): using multidimensional testlets to provide diagnostic and summative assessments of vocabulary growth in grades 4 and 5. Paper presented at the Institute of Education Sciences Principal Investigator Meetings, Assessment Showcase 1: What's New in Assessing Reading? National Center for Education Research/Institute of Education Sciences. Washington, D.C.

Vevea, J.L., Flinspach, S.L., & Scott, J.A. (2013). Exploring vocabulary knowledge as a multidimensional construct: diagnostic information about five aspects of vocabulary understanding. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco.

Flinspach, S.L., Castaneda, R., Vevea, J.L., & Scott, J.A. (2014). Exploring bilingual students' performance overall and on cognate words in a large-scale multidimensional vocabulary test. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia.

Castaneda, R., Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., & Vevea, J.L. (2014). Vocabulary monitoring measures as a diagnostic tool for English learners. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society. San Francisco.

Vevea, J.L., & Coburn, K.M. (2015). A web-based implementation of the Vevea & Hedges weight-function model for publication bias. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Nashville.

Turitz, M., & Vevea, J.L. (2016). Random-effects meta-analysis with stochastic conditional variance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago.

Coburn, K.M., & Vevea, J.L. (2016). Publication bias as a function of study characteristics. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago.

Castaneda, R., Liy, Y., Zelinsky, N., Scott, J., Vevea, J.L., & Flinspach, S.L. (2016). Modeling and linking speeded tests: An application with the VASE vocabulary tests. Poster presented at the Annual Modern Modeling Methods Conference. Mansfield, Connecticut.

Zelinsky, N.A.M., Vevea, J.L., & Shadish, W.R. (2016). Publication Bias in Single Case Designs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Fiesole, Italy.