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Rožman, Mojca; Liaw, Yuan-Ling; Chen, Minge – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Background: The global outbreak of the novel COVID-19 virus presented a significant threat to students' well-being across the globe. In this paper, we construct a measure of student psychological distress related to COVID-19 disruption. We then examine the variation in students' psychological distress as a function of student demographic…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Predictor Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Wang, Xiaofang Sarah; Perry, Laura B.; Malpique, Anabela; Ide, Tobias – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has become the world's largest comparative assessment of academic achievement. While hundreds of studies have examined the factors predicting student achievement in PISA, a comprehensive overview of the main predictors has yet to be completed. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Wendt, Heike; Kasper, Daniel; Trendtel, Matthias – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
Background: Large-scale cross-national studies designed to measure student achievement use different social, cultural, economic and other background variables to explain observed differences in that achievement. Prior to their inclusion into a prediction model, these variables are commonly scaled into latent background indices. To allow…
Descriptors: Measurement, Achievement Tests, Cultural Differences, Socioeconomic Influences