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Yu Hu – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Students in Confucian culture are typically high-achieving on international assessments such as PISA and TIMSS. To explore factors that may explain the high performance of Confucian students, the present study compared the latent subpopulations of school resources and disciplinary climate in two Confucian countries and two Anglo countries. Using…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Confucianism, High Achievement, Anglo Americans
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Gerick, Julia; Eickelmann, Birgit; Bos, Wilfried – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
The increasing relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) and society's transition towards an information or knowledge society have led to the emergence of new challenges for schools and school systems. Thus, the need for students to develop new forms of skills like "digital literacy" or "computer and information…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Secondary School Students
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Lu, Yi; Bolt, Daniel M. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2015
In this paper, we consider a two-level multidimensional item response model that examines country differences in extreme response style (ERS) as a possible cause for the achievement-attitude paradox in PISA 2006. The model is an extension of Bolt & Newton (2011) that uses response data from seven attitudinal scales to assess response style and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students