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Elena C. Papanastasiou; Michalis P. Michaelides – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Test-taking behavior is a potential source of construct irrelevant variance for test scores in international large-scale assessments where test-taking effort, motivation, and behaviors in general tend to be confounded with test scores. In an attempt to disentangle this relationship and gain further insight into examinees' test-taking processes,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Testing, Student Behavior, Test Wiseness
Alramamneh, Yahia; Saqr, Sumaya; Areepattamannil, Shaljan – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Emirati children's reading skills have consistently lagged behind global standards on international standardized tests. Given the United Arab Emirates's Vision 2031, which aims for a world-class education system, and given the importance of Arabic literacy in preserving national identity and cultural heritage, there is an urgent need to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Arabic, Parent Attitudes
Ting Zhang; Paul Bailey; Yuqi Liao; Emmanuel Sikali – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The EdSurvey package helps users download, explore variables in, extract data from, and run analyses on large-scale assessment data. The analysis functions in EdSurvey account for the use of plausible values for test scores, survey sampling weights, and their associated variance estimator. We describe the capabilities of the package in the context…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Test Validity
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
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
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
Yao Yang; Yukiko Maeda; Marcia Gentry – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: This empirical study aims to investigate the association between mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics achievement gaps among students in Grades 4, 8, and 12, utilizing data from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The study also considers student-level (e.g., mathematics self-efficacy, gender,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Achievement, National Competency Tests
Chang, Isabelle – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
This study explored the influence of early literacy and numeracy skills on fourth-grade math achievement using the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The study utilized valuable information collected by TIMSS about context related questionnaires such as home resources for learning, early literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Emergent Literacy, Early Experience, Mathematics Achievement
Pitsia, Vasiliki – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
In Ireland, while, on average, students have performed well on national and international assessments of mathematics and science, the low proportions of high achievers in these subjects are noteworthy. Given these patterns and the multifaceted benefits in individual and societal terms that expertise in mathematics and science has been associated…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Secondary School Students
Sacco, Chiara; Falzetti, Patrizia – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
The study of the territorial difference in educational achievement is a widely debated topic, in particular in Italy for the presence of the well-known strong regional disparities. National and international large scale assessments confirmed that the main characteristic of the Italian school system is the geographical cleavage between North and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Geographic Regions, Predictor Variables
Qiu, Xue-Lan; Leung, Frederick K. S. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
This study investigated the status of equity in mathematics education in Hong Kong based on data from TIMSS 2011 to 2019 and the changes in education equity across the three cycles. The effects of various student-, family-, and school-level variables on students' mathematics achievement were examined and compared using multilevel modeling. Results…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education
Gubbels, Joyce; Swart, Nicole M.; Groen, Margriet A. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Previous research on the relationship between students' home and school Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources and academic performance has shown ambiguous results. The availability of ICT resources at school has been found to be unrelated or negatively related to academic performance, whereas the availability of ICT resources at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Reading Achievement, Secondary School Students
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
Silinskas, Gintautas; Ahonen, Arto K.; Wilska, Terhi-Anna – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
The aim or the present study was to examine the relative importance of financial education in school and families and dispositional factors (competitiveness, work mastery, meta-cognition) in predicting financial literacy among Finnish adolescents. The data on the 4328 Finnish 15-year-olds was drawn from the PISA 2018 assessment. Financial literacy…
Descriptors: Money Management, Literacy, Knowledge Level, Adolescents
Yang, Guang; Badri, Masood; Al Rashedi, Asma; Almazroui, Karima – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2018
Background: This study aimed to identify motivation and home influence factors that predict reading literacy achievement of grade 4 students in Abu Dhabi. It drew on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 data, which placed Abu Dhabi students' results substantially below the international benchmark of 500. Methods:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Family Influence, Reading Achievement
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