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Francis Huang; Brian Keller – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Missing data are common with large scale assessments (LSAs). A typical approach to handling missing data with LSAs is the use of listwise deletion, despite decades of research showing that approach can be a suboptimal strategy resulting in biased estimates. In order to help researchers account for missing data, we provide a tutorial using R and…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Data Analysis, Statistical Bias, International Assessment
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Paul A. Jewsbury; Yue Jia; Eugenio J. Gonzalez – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Large-scale assessments are rich sources of data that can inform a diverse range of research questions related to educational policy and practice. For this reason, datasets from large-scale assessments are available to enable secondary analysts to replicate and extend published reports of assessment results. These datasets include multiple imputed…
Descriptors: Measurement, Data Analysis, Achievement, Statistical Analysis
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Francis L. Huang – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The use of large-scale assessments (LSAs) in education has grown in the past decade though analysis of LSAs using multilevel models (MLMs) using R has been limited. A reason for its limited use may be due to the complexity of incorporating both plausible values and weighted analyses in the multilevel analyses of LSA data. We provide additional…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Data Analysis
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John Ainley; Wolfram Schulz – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Religious attachment has been identified as an important correlate of civic participation, civic engagement, and civil participation among adults. This study investigates two aspects of relationships between religiosity and intended political engagement among lower secondary school students in 2009 and 2016. One aspect is the extent to which…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Citizenship Education, Data Analysis, Citizen Participation
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José Manuel Cordero; Lucía Mateos-Romero – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: In recent years, there has been generalized concern in all countries about increasing the younger population's level of financial literacy. However, there is still little evidence on the key factors explaining financial literacy, as the existing literature is inconclusive about this issue. This paper focuses on exploring whether…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Financial Literacy, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries