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Large-scale Assessments in Education

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  1. Content type: Research

    Fair comparisons of educational systems in large-scale assessments can be made only if the differences in curricula have little impact on the outcomes. This study investigated the sensitivity of science achiev...

    Authors: Stephan Daus and Johan Braeken

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2018 6:1

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    The increasing availability of new technologies in an ever more digitalized world has gained momentum in practically all spheres of life, making technology-related skills a key competence not only in professio...

    Authors: Kerstin Drossel and Birgit Eickelmann

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:19

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  3. Content type: Research

    A potential problem of low-stakes large-scale assessments such as the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is low test-taking engagement. The present study pursued two goals...

    Authors: Frank Goldhammer, Thomas Martens and Oliver Lüdtke

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:18

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  4. Content type: Research

    Previous studies have shown that there is a complex relationship between students’ computer and information literacy (CIL) and their use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for both recreationa...

    Authors: Jeppe Bundsgaard and Julia Gerick

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:16

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  6. Content type: Research

    In low-stakes educational assessments, test takers might show a performance decline (PD) on end-of-test items. PD is a concern in educational assessments, especially when groups of students are to be compared ...

    Authors: Marit K. List, Alexander Robitzsch, Oliver Lüdtke, Olaf Köller and Gabriel Nagy

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:15

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  7. Content type: Methodology

    The number of studies addressing issues of inequality in educational outcomes using cognitive achievement tests and variables from large-scale assessment data has increased. Here the value of using a quantile ...

    Authors: Antonella Costanzo and Marta Desimoni

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:14

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  8. Content type: Research

    Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) revealed that countries systematically differ in their respondents’ literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-...

    Authors: Julia Gorges, Tobias Koch, Débora B. Maehler and Judith Offerhaus

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:13

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  9. Content type: Research

    Ample evidence indicates that a person’s human capital is important for success on the labor market in terms of both wages and employment prospects. However, unlike the efforts to identify the impact of school...

    Authors: Franziska Hampf, Simon Wiederhold and Ludger Woessmann

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:12

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  10. Content type: Short report

    As the largest and most innovative international assessment of adults, PIAAC marks an inflection point in the evolution of large-scale comparative assessments. PIAAC grew from the foundation laid by surveys th...

    Authors: Irwin Kirsch and Mary Louise Lennon

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:11

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  11. Content type: Research

    Large-scale cross-national studies designed to measure student achievement use different social, cultural, economic and other background variables to explain observed differences in that achievement. Prior to ...

    Authors: Heike Wendt, Daniel Kasper and Matthias Trendtel

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:10

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  12. Content type: Research

    European countries, and especially Germany, are currently very much affected by human migration flows, with the result that the task of integration has become a challenge. Only very little empirical evidence o...

    Authors: Débora B. Maehler, Silke Martin and Beatrice Rammstedt

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:9

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  14. Content type: Research

    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 mechan...

    Authors: Maria Eugénia Ferrão, Patrícia Mota Costa and Daniel Abud Seabra Matos

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:7

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  15. Content type: Research

    Educational qualifications and literacy skills are highly related. This is not surprising as it is one aim of educational systems to equip individuals with competencies necessary to take part in society. Becau...

    Authors: Natascha Massing and Silke L. Schneider

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:6

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  16. Content type: Methodology

    Survey participation rates can have a direct impact on the validity of the data collected since nonresponse always holds the risk of bias. Therefore, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educati...

    Authors: Sabine Meinck, Diego Cortes and Sabine Tieck

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:3

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  17. Content type: Research

    The present paper investigates the power of personality to predict important life outcomes in the context of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). On the most global lev...

    Authors: Beatrice Rammstedt, Daniel Danner and Clemens Lechner

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:2

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  18. Content type: Research

    In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims ...

    Authors: Beatrice Rammstedt, Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Claus Carstensen and Jürgen Schupp

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:4

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  19. Content type: Research

    The increasing relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) and society’s transition towards an information or knowledge society have led to the emergence of new challenges for schools and sch...

    Authors: Julia Gerick, Birgit Eickelmann and Wilfried Bos

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:5

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  20. Content type: Research

    In large scale international assessment studies, questionnaires are typical used to query students’ home possessions. Composite scores are computed from responses to the home resource questionnaires and are us...

    Authors: Emmanuel Adu-tutu Bofah and Markku S. Hannula

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2017 5:1

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  21. Content type: Research

    English language proficiency is considered a basic skill that students from different language backgrounds are expected to master, independent of whether they are native or non-native speakers. Tests that meas...

    Authors: Johanna Fleckenstein, Michael Leucht, Hans Anand Pant and Olaf Köller

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2016 4:19

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  22. Content type: Methodology

    The current study compared four differential item functioning (DIF) methods to examine their performances in terms of accounting for dual dependency (i.e., person and item clustering effects) simultaneously by...

    Authors: Ying Jin and Minsoo Kang

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2016 4:18

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  23. Content type: Research

    Teachers’ integration of information and communication technology (ICT) has been widely studied, given that digital competence is considered to be a crucial outcome of twenty first century education. In this c...

    Authors: Fazilat Siddiq and Ronny Scherer

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2016 4:17

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  25. Content type: Research

    This study investigates the relationship between students’ use of information and communication technology (ICT) for social communication and their computer and information literacy (CIL) scores. It also exami...

    Authors: Meral Alkan and Sabine Meinck

    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2016 4:15

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Large-scale Assessments in Education is fully sponsored by IERI, the IEA-ETS Research Institute, a collaborative effort between the Research & Development Division at ETS and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) that focuses on improving the science of large-scale assessments. Authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

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