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Evaluating Uncertainty: The Impact of the Sampling and Assessment Design on Statistical Inference in the Context of ILSA
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Diego Cortes; Dirk Hastedt; Sabine Meinck – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
This paper informs users of data collected in international large-scale assessments (ILSA), by presenting argumentsunderlining the importance of considering two design features employed in these studies. We examine a commonmisconception stating that the uncertainty arising from the assessment design is negligible compared with that arisingfrom the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Research Design, Educational Assessment, Statistical Inference
Survey Research in Action: A South African Example of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Surette van Staden – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Survey research in education is a popular quantitative research design and is used to determine opinions, attitudes, behavior, habits, and perceptions on a wide variety of topics. While many people are familiar with survey methods, it is often used in a 'quick and dirty' way to get information. This case aims to describe some of the challenges of…
Descriptors: Surveys, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Literacy