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NEPSscaling: Plausible Value Estimation for Competence Tests Administered in the German National Educational Panel Study
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Scharl, Anna; Zink, Eva – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Educational large-scale assessments (LSAs) often provide plausible values for the administered competence tests to facilitate the estimation of population effects. This requires the specification of a background model that is appropriate for the specific research question. Because the "German National Educational Panel Study" (NEPS) is…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Programming Languages, Longitudinal Studies
Reassessing Weights in Large-Scale Assessments and Multilevel Models
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Umut Atasever; Francis L. Huang; Leslie Rutkowski – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
When analyzing large-scale assessments (LSAs) that use complex sampling designs, it is important to account for probability sampling using weights. However, the use of these weights in multilevel models has been widely debated, particularly regarding their application at different levels of the model. Yet, no consensus has been reached on the best…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Practical Significance of Item Misfit and Its Manifestations in Constructs Assessed in Large-Scale Studies
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Fährmann, Katharina; Köhler, Carmen; Hartig, Johannes; Heine, Jörg-Henrik – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
When scaling psychological tests with methods of item response theory it is necessary to investigate to what extent the responses correspond to the model predictions. In addition to the statistical evaluation of item misfit, the question arises as to its practical significance. Although item removal is undesirable for several reasons, its…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Scaling, Test Items, Item Response Theory
Sampling Weights in Multilevel Modelling: An Investigation Using PISA Sampling Structures
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Mang, Julia; Küchenhoff, Helmut; Meinck, Sabine; Prenzel, Manfred – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Background: Standard methods for analysing data from large-scale assessments (LSA) cannot merely be adopted if hierarchical (or multilevel) regression modelling should be applied. Currently various approaches exist; they all follow generally a design-based model of estimation using the pseudo maximum likelihood method and adjusted weights for the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Simulation, Scaling
Comparing Different Trend Estimation Approaches in Country Means and Standard Deviations in International Large-Scale Assessment Studies
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Robitzsch, Alexander; Lüdtke, Oliver – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
One major aim of international large-scale assessments (ILSA) like PISA is to monitor changes in student performance over time. To accomplish this task, a set of common items (i.e., link items) is repeatedly administered in each assessment. Linking methods based on item response theory (IRT) models are used to align the results from the different…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
Does Early Tracking Affect Learning Inequalities? Revisiting Difference-in-Differences Modeling Strategies with International Assessments
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Contini, Dalit; Cugnata, Federica – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
The development of international surveys on children's learning like PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS--delivering comparable achievement measures across educational systems--has revealed large cross-country variability in average performance and in the degree of inequality across social groups. A key question is whether and how institutional differences…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Scores, Family Characteristics