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Henry Isaiah Braun; Matthias von Davier; Jihang Chen – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
International large-scale assessments (ILSA) are an important source of information for education policymakers across the globe. Despite sponsors' warnings, when results are published, media attention focuses on country rankings and changes in scores. Score changes are evaluated using a two-sided z-statistic, with statistical significance declared…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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H. Cigdem Bulut; Okan Bulut; Ashley Clelland – Field Methods, 2025
In this study, we explored psychometric network analysis (PNA) as an alternative method for identifying item wording effects in self-report instruments. We examined the functioning of negatively worded items in the network structures of two math-related scales from the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS); Students…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Network Analysis, Identification, Test Items