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Direct linkCuellar, Edwin; Partchev, Ivailo; Zwitser, Robert; Bechger, Timo – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
International large-scale assessment in education aims to compare educational achievement across many countries. Differences between countries in language, culture, and education give rise to differential item functioning (DIF). For many decades, DIF has been regarded as a nuisance and a threat to validity. In this paper, we take a different…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Academic Achievement, Test Bias, Achievement Tests
Download full textYalcin, Seher – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify the multilevel latent classes for reading, mathematics, and science success of the students, who participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 from Turkey and to determine the predictive ability of: i) students' perseverance; ii) their openness to problem solving; iii)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Cummings, William K.; Bain, Olga – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
With the strengthening of the global economy, contemporary societies have come to view the educational achievements of their young people as a major component of national competiveness. But there are substantial variations in the strategies employed by different nations. To maximize educational achievements, some nations believe that the provision…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Competition, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Cheema, Jehanzeb R. – Research in Education, 2014
Recent data have suggested that despite massive outlays on educational reform Qatar consistently ranks as one of the least academically proficient countries in key areas of literacy. Of the seventy-four countries that participated in PISA 2009 Qatar ranked between sixty-seven and sixty-nine in mathematics, reading and science literacy. Although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Immigrants
Bielefeldt, Talbot – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
In November 2004, economists Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann published a statistical analysis of the relationship between technology and student achievement using year 2000 data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The 2000 PISA was the first in a series of triennial assessments of 15-year-olds conducted by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multivariate Analysis, Academic Achievement, Educational Technology
Papanastasiou, Elena C.; Ferdig, Richard E. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2006
This article explores the existing and potential relationships between computer use and mathematical literacy. Specifically focusing on data obtained from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the article describes some analyses of educational practices in U.S. schools in relation to various types of computer use and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Computer Uses in Education, Numeracy, Correlation
Creswell, John; Underwood, Catherine – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2004
The primary focus of this report is to examine the effect that geographical location may have on the performance of students from schools from all parts of Australia who participated in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2000). Approximately 5,477 students from 231…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Location, Rural Urban Differences, Academic Achievement
