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David Kaplan; Kjorte Harra – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
This paper aims to showcase the value of implementing a Bayesian framework to analyze and report results from international large-scale assessments and provide guidance to users who want to analyse ILSA data using this approach. The motivation for this paper stems from the recognition that Bayesian statistical inference is fast becoming a popular…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Measurement
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Kaplan, David; Huang, Mingya – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Of critical importance to education policy is monitoring trends in education outcomes over time. In the United States, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has provided long-term trend data since 1970; at the state/jurisdiction level, NAEP has provided long-term trend data since 1996. In addition to the national NAEP, all 50…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Trends, National Competency Tests, Bayesian Statistics
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Kaplan, David; McCarty, Alyn Turner – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2013
Background: In the context of international large scale assessments, it is often not feasible to implement a complete survey of all relevant populations. For example, the OECD Program for International Student Assessment surveys both students and schools, but does not obtain information from teachers. In contrast the OECD Teaching and Learning…
Descriptors: Measurement, International Assessment, Student Surveys, Teacher Surveys