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Gustafsson, Martin; Barakat, Bilal Fouad – Comparative Education Review, 2023
International assessments inform education policy debates, yet little is known about their floor effects: To what extent do they fail to differentiate between the lowest performers, and what are the implications of this? TIMSS, SACMEQ, and LLECE data are analyzed to answer this question. In TIMSS, floor effects have been reduced through the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Qi Huang; Daniel M. Bolt; Weicong Lyu – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Large scale international assessments depend on invariance of measurement across countries. An important consideration when observing cross-national differential item functioning (DIF) is whether the DIF actually reflects a source of bias, or might instead be a methodological artifact reflecting item response theory (IRT) model misspecification.…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Response Theory, Test Bias, Test Validity
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Kablan, Zeynel; Günen, Aslihan – Science Education International, 2021
Reflective thinking skills are thought to be an important factor affecting the success of problem solving both routine and non-routine science problems. This research aimed to determine the relationship between eighth-grade students' reflective thinking skills toward problem-solving and their level of solving routine and non-routine science…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reflection, Problem Solving, Evaluative Thinking
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Esin Yilmaz Kogar; Sumeyra Soysal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
In this paper, it is aimed to evaluate different aspects of students' response time to items in the mathematics test and their test effort as an indicator of test motivation with the help of some variables at the item and student levels. The data consists of 4th-grade Singapore and Turkish students participating in the TIMSS 2019. Response time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
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Milne, Annari; Mhlolo, Mike – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Since 1999 South African learners have participated in various international studies but sadly the learners have continued to perform dismally, which brings to question the quality of their education. Meanwhile, Singaporean students have been among the top achievers in all these competitions. Many comparative studies have been done between…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality