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The Relevance of the School Socioeconomic Composition and School Proportion of Repeaters on Grade Repetition in Brazil: A Multilevel Logistic Model of PISA 2012
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Ferrão, Maria Eugénia; Costa, Patrícia Mota; Matos, Daniel Abud Seabra – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
The paper extends the literature on grade repetition in Brazil by (a) describing and synthesizing the main research findings and contributions since 1940, (b) enlarging the understanding of the inequity mechanism in education, and (c) providing new findings on the effects of the school socioeconomic composition and school proportion of repeaters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
A Multilevel Analysis of Swedish and Norwegian Students' Overall and Digital Reading Performance with a Focus on Equity Aspects of Education
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Rasmusson, Maria A. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background: Influence of external factors in general, and socioeconomic background factors in particular, on traditional reading performance has been extensively researched and debated. While traditional reading is well investigated in this respect, there is a lack of studies on equity aspects related to digital reading achievement, in spite of…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Reading Achievement, Technological Literacy, Telecommunications
Affective Characteristics and Mathematics Performance in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand: What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us?
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Thien, Lei Mee; Darmawan, I. Gusti Ngurah; Ong, Mei Yean – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2015
Background: The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 showed that Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand underperformed and were positioned in the bottom third out of 65 participating countries for mathematics, science, and reading literacies. The wide gap between these three countries and the top performing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
On the Use of Rotated Context Questionnaires in Conjunction with Multilevel Item Response Models
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Adams, Raymond J.; Lietz, Petra; Berezner, Alla – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2013
Background: While rotated test booklets have been employed in large-scale assessments to increase the content coverage of the assessments, rotation has not yet been applied to the context questionnaires administered to respondents. Methods: This paper describes the development of a methodology that uses rotated context questionnaires in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Item Response Theory, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
What Works Where? The Relationship between Instructional Variables and Schools' Mean Scores in Mathematics and Science in Low-, Medium-, and High-Achieving Countries
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Zuzovsky, Ruth – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2013
Background: The association between frequent use of certain instructional practices in mathematics and science and learning outcomes in schools in low-, medium-, and high-achieving countries is the focus of this study. It not only looks at teaching practices "that work" (positively associated with achievement) but whether they…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Achievement