Author gives special attention to the organization of international research, the construction of international achievement tests, and certain teacher variables in international research. (Editor)

This first of three articles in a symposium on the research effort of the International Association of the Evaluation of Educational Achievement is an historical portrait of the IEA studies providing insights concerning the methodological and political aspects of a large-scale, multinational research project. (Editor/SJL)

This paper highlights some of the main conclusions from the Six Subject Survey of education in 19 countries conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievements. Beside presenting some findings of the survey, the author reviews the aims of conducting such multinational comparisons and discusses the future of…

The comprehensive-versus-selective school issue is primarily a socio-politico-economic rather than pedagogic problem. The International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) had as its primary objective to relate certain social, economic and pedagogic characteristics of the different systems to the outcomes of instruction in…