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Jonathan A. Downey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Socioeconomic status (SES) is a key covariate in analyses by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In its technical documentation, PISA offers evidence for the Economic, Social, and Cultural Status instrument (ESCS) as a valid measure of SES. This dissertation, however, offers both conceptual and empirical arguments that ESCS…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Borgonovi, Francesca; Ferrara, Alessandro; Piacentini, Mario – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Non-cognitive skills are routinely measured using self-reports in the context of large-scale international assessments. However questions remain on the adequacy of self-reports to conduct comparisons. Measures that exploit test-taker's behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or of the cognitive tests have been proposed in the literature…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measures (Individuals), Student Evaluation, Validity
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Shu-Fen Lin; Wan-Chin Shie – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Teachers lack effective curriculum-based instruments to assess their students' scientific competence that would provide information for modifying their inquiry instruction. The main purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Curriculum-Based Scientific Competence (CBSC) test to assess students' scientific competence in a 1-semester Grade…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Validity, Grade 9, Science Tests
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Hasibuan, Siti Aisyah; Fauz, M. Amin; Mukhtar – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
This study aims to describe: (1) The validity and reliability of the PISA model mathematical problems on the change and relationship content developed; (2) The practicality of PISA mathematical problem models on the developed change and relationship content; (3) Students' mathematical problem-solving abilities on mathematical problems in the PISA…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Test Construction, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Skills
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work seeks to establish a comparison between two different and distant evaluation tools applied to the Dominican student population in order to measure the efficiency of our educational system in the recent years, one of them measured the quality of Dominican education in three areas (the PISA Test), whereas the other tested the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation, International Assessment
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Ham, Yeajin; Hwang, Jihyun – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
With rising importance of collaborative problem-solving skills (CLPS) for the new information age, the PISA 2015 assessed students' CLPS skills on a large scale. This new attempt to measure CLPS raises an issue of validity. The purpose of this research is to examine evidence for convergent validity of CLPS through investigating the relationships…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Student Evaluation, International Assessment
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Oktiningrum, Wuli; Zulkardi; Hartono, Yusuf – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
The aim of this research is produce a set of PISA-like mathematics task with Indonesia natural and cultural heritage as context which are valid, practical, to assess students' mathematics literacy. This is design research using type of development research with formative evaluation. A total of 20 students of SMP Negeri 1 Palembang. Beside, 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Skills
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Rusilowati, Ani; Kurniawati, Lina; Nugroho, Sunyoto E.; Widiyatmoko, Arif – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to develop scientific literacy evaluation instrument that tested its validity, reliability, and characteristics to measure the skill of student's scientific literacy used four scientific literacy, categories as follow:science as a body of knowledge (category A), science as a way of thinking (category B), science as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Grade 9, Test Construction
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De Backer, Fauve; Van Avermaet, Piet; Slembrouck, Stef – Language and Education, 2017
Across Europe we can observe the reinforcement of monolingual education policies, despite increasing multilingualism. Recent research has shown that the emphasis is on language proficiency in the socially dominant language. This is viewed as the key to educational success. The use of other languages or linguistic repertoires is not valued in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Language Proficiency, Monolingualism
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Rutkowski, David; Rutkowski, Leslie – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
As part of its flagship educational study--the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)--the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has undertaken extensive work to create an internationally relevant composite indicator aimed at measuring socioeconomic background. However, the degree to which a single measure of…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Kaplan, David; Turner, Alyn – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) constitute two of the largest ongoing international student and teacher surveys presently underway. Data generated from these surveys offer researchers and policy-makers opportunities to identify particular educational…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Teacher Surveys, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
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Bracey, Gerald – Educational Leadership, 2009
Bracey looks at three well-known assessments--the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Program of International Student Assessment, and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study--and concludes that their "instruction-insensitive" design makes them inappropriate as measures of education quality in schools, districts, states,…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Educational Quality, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Halldorsson, Almar M.; Olafsson, Ragnar F. – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
Among 41 participating countries in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, the gender difference in favour of females was greatest in Iceland in the three subjects tested: mathematics, science and reading. The aims of this article are to put these findings in national and international context, and report on a number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, National Standards, Validity
Bracey, Gerald W. – Principal Leadership, 2008
One can not help but notice that the education community's professional fear-mongers focus heavily on PISA (Program of International Student Assessment) and rarely mention TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) or PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Study) in their discussion of the state of education in the United…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Politics of Education
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education