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I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan; Anak Agung Sagung Sri Kencana Dharmapatni – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
This paper explores student and school level factors associated with 15-year-old students' reading performance in five Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. It investigates predictors of reading performance, including student gender, economic, social, and cultural status (ESCS), social well-being, and experiences of bullying at the student level. It…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Adolescents, Reading Achievement
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Immekus, Jason C.; Jeong, Tai-sun; Yoo, Jin Eun – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Large-scale international studies offer researchers a rich source of data to examine the relationship among variables. Machine learning embodies a range of flexible statistical procedures to identify key indicators of a response variable among a collection of hundreds or even thousands of potential predictor variables. Among these, penalized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology
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Rammstedt, Beatrice; Danner, Daniel; Lechner, Clemens – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
The present paper investigates the power of personality to predict important life outcomes in the context of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). On the most global level, personality can be described by the Big Five dimensions, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Competence, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Costanzo, Antonella; Desimoni, Marta – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
The number of studies addressing issues of inequality in educational outcomes using cognitive achievement tests and variables from large-scale assessment data has increased. Here the value of using a quantile regression approach is compared with a classical regression analysis approach to study the relationships between educational outcomes and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Measurement, Regression (Statistics), Correlation