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Schulz, Wolfram, Ed.; Losito, Bruno, Ed.; Carstens, Ralph, Ed.; Fraillon, Julian, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2018
The IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. ICCS 2016 is the second cycle of a study initiated in 2009. This technical report follows the publication of several…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
This supplement describes national adaptations made to the international version of the TIMSS 2011 background questionnaires. This information provides users with a guide to evaluate the availability of internationally comparable data for use in secondary analyses involving the TIMSS 2011 background variables. Background questionnaire adaptations…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Technology Transfer, Adoption (Ideas), Media Adaptation
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Drucker, Kathleen T., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
This supplement describes national adaptations made to the international version of the PIRLS/prePIRLS 2011 background questionnaires. This information provides users with a guide to evaluate the availability of internationally comparable data for use in secondary analyses involving the PIRLS/prePIRLS 2011 background variables. Background…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Databases, Media Adaptation, Technology Transfer
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Barry McGaw – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) underpins its extensive policy work with strong databases of comparable statistics and indicators with which it compares countries. In 2000, it extended its education database with its first collection of data on the performances of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Hunt, E. Stephen – 1994
The Comparative Database System (CDS) provides a means for coding and using data on U.S. and international postsecondary educational activity and behavior. CDS permits education-data users to obtain accurate and reliable comparative data on postsecondary education questions. This document contains a discussion of the development of CDS, a detailed…
Descriptors: Coding, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Data Analysis
Westbury, Ian; Travers, Kenneth – 1990
The papers collected in this volume are intended both to present a summary 'history' and description of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) and to illustrate a variety of approaches to the analysis of the data that emerged from SIMS. The papers are intended…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Comparative Education, Data Interpretation, Databases