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Direct linkEsther Ulitzsch; Steffi Pohl; Lale Khorramdel; Ulf Kroehne; Matthias von Davier – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
Questionnaires are by far the most common tool for measuring noncognitive constructs in psychology and educational sciences. Response bias may pose an additional source of variation between respondents that threatens validity of conclusions drawn from questionnaire data. We present a mixture modeling approach that leverages response time data from…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Response Style (Tests), Questionnaires, Secondary School Students
Bray, Mark; Kobakhidze, Magda Nutsa – Comparative Education Review, 2014
Expanding numbers of researchers are focusing on the scale and impact of private supplementary tutoring. Such tutoring is widely called shadow education, since much of its curriculum mimics that of regular schooling. Although shadow education has expanded significantly worldwide and is now recognized to have far-reaching significance, research…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Private Education, Educational Research, Measurement
Hopfenbeck, Therese N.; Kjaernsli, Marit – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Do students make their best effort in large-scale assessment studies such as the "Programme for International Student Assessment" (PISA)? Despite six cycles of PISA surveys from 2000 to 2015, empirical studies regarding students' test motivation and experience of the tests are sparse. The present study examines students' test motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Sahin, Füsun – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Examining the testing processes, as well as the scores, is needed for a complete understanding of validity and fairness of computer-based assessments. Examinees' rapid-guessing and insufficient familiarity with computers have been found to be major issues that weaken the validity arguments of scores. This study has three goals: (a) improving…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Guessing (Tests)
Download full textKastberg, David; Chan, Jessica Ying; Murray, Gordon – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a system of international assessments that allows countries to compare outcomes of learning as students near the end of compulsory schooling. PISA measures the performance of 15-year-old students in science, reading, and mathematics literacy every 3 years. PISA uses the term…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Benítez, Isabel; Padilla, José-Luis – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2014
Differential item functioning (DIF) can undermine the validity of cross-lingual comparisons. While a lot of efficient statistics for detecting DIF are available, few general findings have been found to explain DIF results. The objective of the article was to study DIF sources by using a mixed method design. The design involves a quantitative phase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Test Bias, Cross Cultural Studies
School Principals' Agency as Reflected by Extracurricular Activities in the Israeli Education System
Yemini, Miri; Addi-Raccah, Audrey – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
This study examines the nature and extent of extracurricular activities in the Palestinian Arab, Jewish Religious and Jewish Secular educational sectors (Israeli education system also includes the Ultra-Orthodox sector with its own management, monitoring and governance apparatus.) in Israel, in order to characterise the contextual variables that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Extracurricular Activities, Arabs
Mikk, Jaan – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
The aim of the study was to explain the difference between the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 reading results for Finland and Estonia using characteristics of teaching and learning, and characteristics of the overall development of these countries. PISA data were collected via a reading test and student questionnaires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Scores
Li, Hongli; Fortner, C. Kevin; Lei, Xiaoxuan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In this study, we examined relationships between the use of test results and US students' math, reading, and science performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009. Based on a literature review, we hypothesized that the 16 items in the PISA school questionnaire, which are related to the use of test results, can be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tests, Evaluation Utilization, Mathematics Achievement
Kilic, Serpil; Cene, Erhan; Demir, Ibrahim – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine learning strategies accounted for mathematics achievement across Turkey and neighboring countries. Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, Israel, Serbia, Romania and Jordan were involved in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2009) study. Since other neighbors of Turkey…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth (MTEG) offers a flexible, collaborative approach to developing and implementing an assessment of learning outcomes that yields high-quality, nationally relevant data. MTEG is a service that involves ACER staff working closely with each country to develop an assessment program that meets the country's…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Trends, Progress Monitoring, Educational Quality
Stacey, Kaye – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2010
PISA, the OECD's international program of assessment of reading, scientific and mathematical literacy, aims to assess the knowledge and skills that students have acquired at school and their ability to use them in everyday tasks and challenges. It also uses questionnaires to gather data on students' attitudes to learning and the conditions of…
Descriptors: International Education, Student Attitudes, International Programs, Scientific Literacy
