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Download full textMichael O. Martin, Editor; Julian Fraillon, Editor; Heiko Sibberns, Editor; Betina Borisova, Contributor; Ekaterina Buzkich, Contributor; David Ebbs, Contributor; Eugenio Gonzalez, Contributor; Seamus Hegarty, Contributor; Sabine Meinck, Contributor; Sebastian Meyer, Contributor; Irini Moustaki, Contributor; Lauren Musu, Contributor; Keith Rust, Contributor; Ulrich Sievers, Contributor; Matthias von Davier, Contributor; Kentaro Yamamoto, Contributor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2025
This publication presents "IEA's Technical Standards for International Large-Scale Assessment." The initial standards, published in 1999, aimed to consolidate the best practices and methodological rigor in IEA's approach to educational assessment, addressing the unique needs of international studies. The standards presented in this…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Standards, Test Construction, Data Collection
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Although self-report surveys are widely used for data collection, data quality can vary across populations because certain groups are more likely to engage in insufficient effort responding (IER). Our study examined how different levels of the educational system--student groups, schools, and cultural contexts--affect data quality due to IER, using…
Descriptors: Responses, Response Style (Tests), Questionnaires, Surveys
Guo, Hongwen – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
Many educational summative and formative assessments have been transferred to a remote online setting because of the pandemic. Educational professionals and stakeholders have shown interest in learning how this change in the test mode influenced test takers; that is, whether test-taking experiences in a remote test setting were different from…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
Lundahl, Christian; Serder, Margareta – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
How can we understand the uncertainties in high-stake measures such as PISA in relation to the claims that different authorities make from them? In this paper, we use a rather remarkable case from Sweden involving conflicting interpretations of the PISA 2018 results at a national political level and a fight over statistics between two national…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Adeline De Angelis – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper employs a Critical Cultural Political Economy of Education perspective to examine how, why, and to what effect the English proficiency rankings of a for-profit edu-business acquire the authority often granted to international large-scale assessments. Analysing the EF English Proficiency Index in the context of Ecuador illustrates how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Language Tests, Achievement Tests
Sainan Xu; Jing Lu; Jiwei Zhang; Chun Wang; Gongjun Xu – Grantee Submission, 2024
With the growing attention on large-scale educational testing and assessment, the ability to process substantial volumes of response data becomes crucial. Current estimation methods within item response theory (IRT), despite their high precision, often pose considerable computational burdens with large-scale data, leading to reduced computational…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Item Response Theory
Egan, Laura; Tang, Judy H.; Ferraro, David; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at grades 4 and 8, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student achievement. TIMSS has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
