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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
Teacher-Centered Analysis with TIMSS and PIRLS Data: Weighting Approaches, Accuracy, and Precision
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Shelby J. Haberman; Sabine Meinck; Ann-Kristin Koop – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
This paper extends existing work on teacher weighting in student-centered surveys by looking into aspects of practical implementation of deriving and using weights for teacher-centered analysis in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). The formal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement