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Reassessing Weights in Large-Scale Assessments and Multilevel Models
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Umut Atasever; Francis L. Huang; Leslie Rutkowski – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
When analyzing large-scale assessments (LSAs) that use complex sampling designs, it is important to account for probability sampling using weights. However, the use of these weights in multilevel models has been widely debated, particularly regarding their application at different levels of the model. Yet, no consensus has been reached on the best…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Sampling Weights in Multilevel Modelling: An Investigation Using PISA Sampling Structures
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Mang, Julia; Küchenhoff, Helmut; Meinck, Sabine; Prenzel, Manfred – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Background: Standard methods for analysing data from large-scale assessments (LSA) cannot merely be adopted if hierarchical (or multilevel) regression modelling should be applied. Currently various approaches exist; they all follow generally a design-based model of estimation using the pseudo maximum likelihood method and adjusted weights for the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Simulation, Scaling
The Influence of ICT Use and Related Attitudes on Students' Math and Science Performance: Multilevel Analyses of the Last Decade's PISA Surveys
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Courtney, Matthew; Karakus, Mehmet; Ersozlu, Zara; Nurumov, Kaidar – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
This study analyzed the latest four PISA surveys, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018, to explore the association between students' ICT-related use and math and science performance. Using ICT Engagement Theory as a theoretical framework and a three-level hierarchical linear modeling approach, while controlling for confounding effects, ICT-related…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
The Relevance of the School Socioeconomic Composition and School Proportion of Repeaters on Grade Repetition in Brazil: A Multilevel Logistic Model of PISA 2012
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Ferrão, Maria Eugénia; Costa, Patrícia Mota; Matos, Daniel Abud Seabra – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
The paper extends the literature on grade repetition in Brazil by (a) describing and synthesizing the main research findings and contributions since 1940, (b) enlarging the understanding of the inequity mechanism in education, and (c) providing new findings on the effects of the school socioeconomic composition and school proportion of repeaters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
A Multilevel Analysis of Swedish and Norwegian Students' Overall and Digital Reading Performance with a Focus on Equity Aspects of Education
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Rasmusson, Maria A. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background: Influence of external factors in general, and socioeconomic background factors in particular, on traditional reading performance has been extensively researched and debated. While traditional reading is well investigated in this respect, there is a lack of studies on equity aspects related to digital reading achievement, in spite of…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Reading Achievement, Technological Literacy, Telecommunications
Affective Characteristics and Mathematics Performance in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand: What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us?
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Thien, Lei Mee; Darmawan, I. Gusti Ngurah; Ong, Mei Yean – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2015
Background: The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 showed that Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand underperformed and were positioned in the bottom third out of 65 participating countries for mathematics, science, and reading literacies. The wide gap between these three countries and the top performing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
On the Use of Rotated Context Questionnaires in Conjunction with Multilevel Item Response Models
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Adams, Raymond J.; Lietz, Petra; Berezner, Alla – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2013
Background: While rotated test booklets have been employed in large-scale assessments to increase the content coverage of the assessments, rotation has not yet been applied to the context questionnaires administered to respondents. Methods: This paper describes the development of a methodology that uses rotated context questionnaires in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Item Response Theory, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests