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Oren Pizmony-Levy; James Harvey; William H. Schmidt; Richard Noonan; Laura Engel; Michael J. Feuer; Henry Braun; Carla Santorno; Iris C. Rotberg; Paul Ash; Madhabi Chatterji; Judith Torney-Purta – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This paper presents a moderated discussion on popular misconceptions, benefits and limitations of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs, clarifying how ILSA results could be more appropriately interpreted and used in public policy contexts in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Design/methodology/approach: To bring key…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, International Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Measurement
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth (MTEG) offers a flexible, collaborative approach to developing and implementing an assessment of learning outcomes that yields high-quality, nationally relevant data. MTEG is a service that involves ACER staff working closely with each country to develop an assessment program that meets the country's…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Trends, Progress Monitoring, Educational Quality
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
In most PISA-participating countries and economies, the average socio-economic background of students who attend privately managed schools is more advantaged than that of those who attend public schools. Yet in some countries, there is little difference in the socio-economic profiles between public and private schools. Why? An analysis of PISA…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Academic Achievement, Profiles, Public Schools