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On the Treatment of Missing Data in Background Questionnaires in Educational Large-Scale Assessments: An Evaluation of Different Procedures
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Grund, Simon; Lüdtke, Oliver; Robitzsch, Alexander – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Large-scale assessments (LSAs) use Mislevy's "plausible value" (PV) approach to relate student proficiency to noncognitive variables administered in a background questionnaire. This method requires background variables to be completely observed, a requirement that is seldom fulfilled. In this article, we evaluate and compare the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Error of Measurement, Research Problems, Statistical Inference
Understanding Validity Issues in International Large Scale Assessments
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Meiko Lin; Erin Bumgarner; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This policy brief, the third in the AERI-NEPC eBrief series "Understanding validity issues around the world", discusses validity issues surrounding International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs. ILSA programs, such as the well-known Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
A Call for a More Measured Approach to Reporting and Interpreting PISA Results
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Rutkowski, Leslie; Rutkowski, David – Educational Researcher, 2016
In the current article, we consider the influential position of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and discuss several methodological areas that demonstrate the need for caution when using and interpreting PISA results. We motivate our argument by briefly describing the program's increased influence in educational policy…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Outcome Measures, Data Interpretation, Research Reports
Pick "n" Mix, Select and Project; Policy Borrowing and the Quest for "World Class" Schooling: An Analysis of the 2010 Schools White Paper
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Morris, Paul – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
Education reform is increasingly portrayed as a quest to achieve a "world class" education system through a process of identifying and adopting the practices of those systems whose pupils perform best in league tables of achievement. This is the rationale for the range of new policies proposed by the coalition government in the schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Evidence, Educational Change
IQ Differences between the North and South of Italy: A Reply to Beraldo and Cornoldi, Belacchi, Giofre, Martini, and Tressoldi
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Lynn, Richard – Intelligence, 2010
Beraldo (2010) and Cornoldi, Belacchi, Giofre, Martini, and Tressoldi (2010) (CBGMT) have eight criticisms of my paper (Lynn, 2010) claiming that the large north-south differences in per capita income in Italy are attributable to differences in the average levels of intelligence in the populations. CBGMT give results for seven data sets for IQs in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Income, Criticism, Foreign Countries
The Mean Southern Italian Children IQ Is Not Particularly Low: A Reply to R. Lynn (2010)
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Belacchi, Carmen; Giofre, David; Martini, Angela; Tressoldi, Patrizio – Intelligence, 2010
Working with data from the PISA study (OECD, 2007), Lynn (2010) has argued that individuals from South Italy average an IQ approximately 10 points lower than individuals from North Italy, and has gone on to put forward a series of conclusions on the relationship between average IQ, latitude, average stature, income, etc. The present paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Differences, Research Methodology