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Mark Bray; Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This paper examines and builds on an earlier contribution to this journal focusing on private supplementary tutoring -- widely known as shadow education -- in Francophone West and Central Africa. Drawing on wider literature about research methods in this domain, it examines the basis for the numerical estimates presented in the original article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Supplementary Education, Private Education
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Meiko Lin; Erin Bumgarner; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This policy brief, the third in the AERI-NEPC eBrief series "Understanding validity issues around the world", discusses validity issues surrounding International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs. ILSA programs, such as the well-known Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Singer, Judith D., Ed.; Braun, Henry I., Ed.; Chudowsky, Naomi, Ed. – National Academy of Education, 2018
Results from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) garner considerable attention in the media, academia, and among policy makers. Although there is widespread recognition that ILSAs can provide useful information, there is debate about what types of comparisons are the most meaningful and what could be done to assure more sound…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Data Interpretation
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Oren Pizmony-Levy; James Harvey; William H. Schmidt; Richard Noonan; Laura Engel; Michael J. Feuer; Henry Braun; Carla Santorno; Iris C. Rotberg; Paul Ash; Madhabi Chatterji; Judith Torney-Purta – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This paper presents a moderated discussion on popular misconceptions, benefits and limitations of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs, clarifying how ILSA results could be more appropriately interpreted and used in public policy contexts in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Design/methodology/approach: To bring key…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, International Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Measurement
Bracey, Gerald W. – Principal Leadership, 2001
Factors contributing to American students' declining scores on the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) between grades 4 and 8 include textbook size and U.S. educators' traditional views of middle-school years. Bad data probably invalidate claims about the grade 8 to 12 decline. International reading scores favor Americans.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Education, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education