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Knipe, Sally – Educational Practice and Theory, 2022
This article presents a descriptive, critical analysis of the comparability of information concerning students, teachers, and school resources gathered by organisations within government jurisdiction, and the pitfalls for the unwary researcher using government data banks. Differences in the method of compiling information about citizens, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Hartong, Sigrid; Piattoeva, Nelli – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper contributes to a growing body of research on the increasing datafication of schooling, which has become a salient topic in comparative education and education policy research. Specifically, we address the rising scholarly concern about the meaning of (comparing) contexts as bounded localities facing an increasingly fluid and generative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Standardized Tests
Slavin, Robert E.; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Zhuang, Tengteng – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: This article presents a definition and rationale for evidence-based reform in education, and a discussion of the current state of evidence-based research, focusing on China, the U.S., and the UK. Design/Approach/Methods: The article contrasts the state of educational research in the U.S., the UK, and China, world leaders in evidence-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Change
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Egan, Laura; Tang, Judy H.; Ferraro, David; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at grades 4 and 8, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student achievement. TIMSS has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Nikolaj Broberg; Gillian Golden – OECD Publishing, 2023
Module A of the OECD Higher Education Policy Survey (HEPS) 2022 elicited information on policies to promote digitalisation of higher education in OECD member and accession countries. In total, 30 jurisdictions responded, providing comparative information on various areas of digitalisation policy, from regulation and governance to financial and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed.; von Davier, Matthias, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is a long-standing international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been collecting trend data every four years since 1995. About 70 countries use TIMSS trend data for monitoring the effectiveness of their education systems in a global…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement