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  1. A general validity and survey quality concern with student questionnaires under low-stakes assessment conditions is that some responders will not genuinely engage with the questionnaire, often with more random...

    Authors: Jianan Chen, Saskia van Laar and Johan Braeken
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:37
  2. 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 syst...

    Authors: Yahia Alramamneh, Sumaya Saqr and Shaljan Areepattamannil
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:36
  3. Process data are becoming more and more popular in education research. In the field of computer-based assessments of collaborative problem solving (ColPS), process data have been used to identify students’ tes...

    Authors: Areum Han, Florian Krieger, Francesca Borgonovi and Samuel Greiff
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:35
  4. Students with disabilities generally experience educational inequities around the world. The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic likely exacerbated these inequities in access, resources, and support as school...

    Authors: Alexandra Shelton and Tuba Gezer
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:34
  5. This study examines the association between class size, teacher characteristics and five non-cognitive student outcomes (i.e., self-control, interpersonal skills, approaches to learning, externalizing and inte...

    Authors: Spyros Konstantopoulos and Ting Shen
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:33
  6. Unfavorable test-taking behaviors, such as speededness and disengagement, have long been a validity concern for large-scale low-stakes assessments. Understanding the presence and extent of such behaviors is im...

    Authors: Xiaying Zheng, Fusun Sahin, Ebru Erberber and Frank Fonseca
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:32
  7. Research has shown that students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to have lower academic performance compared to children from better-off families. However, the way that socioeconomic st...

    Authors: Demos Michael and Leonidas Kyriakides
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:31
  8. Written instructions seldom need to be read when playing videogames. Instead, gaming often involves early information foraging and expansive exploration behaviors. We use data from the Programme for Internatio...

    Authors: Francesco Avvisati and Francesca Borgonovi
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:29
  9. Digital Information Literacy (DIL) refers to the ability to obtain, understand, evaluate, and use information in digital contexts. To accurately capture various dimensions of DIL, assessment designers have inc...

    Authors: Caitlin Tenison and Jesse R. Sparks
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:28
  10. In low-stakes assessment settings, students’ performance is not only influenced by students’ ability level but also their test-taking engagement. In computerized adaptive tests (CATs), disengaged responses (e....

    Authors: Guher Gorgun and Okan Bulut
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:27
  11. 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 a...

    Authors: Alexander Robitzsch and Oliver Lüdtke
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:26
  12. A solid foundation in science is critical to students’ success in the 21st century workforce, especially in fields related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Therefore, high-quality s...

    Authors: Shaljan Areepattamannil, Othman Abu Khurma, Nagla Ali, Rehab Al Hakmani and Hanadi Kadbey
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:25
  13. 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 a...

    Authors: Xiaofang Sarah Wang, Laura B. Perry, Anabela Malpique and Tobias Ide
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:24
  14. The COVID-19 pandemic brought immense challenges to global society. The entire social and work life had to be reorganized to accommodate for the restrictions imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19. These rest...

    Authors: Plamen V. Mirazchiyski and Eva Klemenčič Mirazchiyski
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:23
  15. The advance and access to technology have allowed for the implementation of adaptive testing in international large-scale assessments (ILSAs). Multistage testing (MST) in ILSAs offers opportunities and advanta...

    Authors: Montserrat Valdivia Medinaceli, Leslie Rutkowski, Dubravka Svetina Valdivia and David Rutkowski
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:22
  16. Much debate exists concerning the factorial dimensionality of student well-being. We contribute to this debate by drawing on PISA 2018 data from a total of 61,722 students, 2528 schools, and nine countries. Fo...

    Authors: Matthew Gordon Ray Courtney, Daniel Hernández-Torrano, Mehmet Karakus and Neha Singh
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:20
  17. The existence of a multiplier, compositional or social context effect is debated extensively in the literature on school effectiveness and also relates to the wider issue of equity in educational outcomes. How...

    Authors: Darragh Flannery, Lorraine Gilleece and Jose G. Clavel
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:19
  18. The influence of achievement motives and relational goal structures embedded in schools on learning outcomes as well as their interaction has attracted much attention in educational research. In the secondary ...

    Authors: Ji Zhou and Xinghua Wang
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:17
  19. A priori assumptions about specific behavior in test items can be used to process log data in a rule-based fashion to identify the behavior of interest. In this study, we demonstrate such a top-down approach a...

    Authors: Carolin Hahnel, Ulf Kroehne and Frank Goldhammer
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:16
  20. In low-income countries, there exists a common concern about the effect of hunger and food insecurity on educational outcomes. However, income inequalities, economic slowdown, conflict, and climate change have...

    Authors: Yusuf Canbolat, David Rutkowski and Leslie Rutkowski
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:13

    The Correction to this article has been published in Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:15

  21. This article aims at a better understanding of the Brazilian education system’s performance concerning the quality and equity over the decade 2007–2017. It examines the extent to which students’ sociodemograph...

    Authors: Maria Eugénia Ferrão and Maria Teresa Gonzaga Alves
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:12
  22. Grounded in ecological theory, this study investigated relative contributions of perceived classroom and school climate variables to mathematics self-concept and achievement of English-at-home and English lear...

    Authors: Onur Ramazan, Robert William Danielson, Annick Rougee, Yuliya Ardasheva and Bruce W. Austin
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:11
  23. The Covid-19 pandemic coerced the closure of most schools around the world and forced teachers and students to change teaching and learning methods. Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) generated consequences to te...

    Authors: Melisa L. Diaz Lema, Lidia Rossi and Mara Soncin
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:10
  24. Mode effects, the variations in item and scale properties attributed to the mode of test administration (paper vs. computer), have stimulated research around test equivalence and trend estimation in PISA. The ...

    Authors: Scott Harrison, Ulf Kroehne, Frank Goldhammer, Oliver Lüdtke and Alexander Robitzsch
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:8
  25. While gender differences in mathematical competencies favoring boys are well researched for school and late Kindergarten age, much less is known about their earlier development. Using data from the NEPS Newbor...

    Authors: Loreen Beier and Hans-Peter Blossfeld
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:7
  26. This paper investigates how the COVID-19 school closure has affected the gender gap in grade-8 students' performance and what are the drivers behind this. By analysing four different countries (i.e., the Russi...

    Authors: Alice Bertoletti, Federico Biagi, Giorgio Di Pietro and Zbigniew Karpiński
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:6
  27. Given the ongoing development of computer-based tasks, there has been increasing interest in modelling students’ behaviour indicators from log file data with contextual variables collected via questionnaires. ...

    Authors: Denise Reis Costa and Chia-Wen Chen
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:5
  28. Examinees may not make enough effort when responding to test items if the assessment has no consequence for them. These disengaged responses can be problematic in low-stakes, large-scale assessments because th...

    Authors: Huan Kuang and Fusun Sahin
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:4
  29. Making accurate diagnoses in teams requires complex collaborative diagnostic reasoning skills, which require extensive training. In this study, we investigated broad content-independent behavioral indicators o...

    Authors: Constanze Richters, Matthias Stadler, Anika Radkowitsch, Ralf Schmidmaier, Martin R. Fischer and Frank Fischer
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:3
  30. The purpose of this paper is to extend and evaluate methods of Bayesian historical borrowing applied to longitudinal data with a focus on parameter recovery and predictive performance. Bayesian historical borrowi...

    Authors: David Kaplan, Jianshen Chen, Weicong Lyu and Sinan Yavuz
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:2
  31. 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 indic...

    Authors: Jason C. Immekus, Tai-sun Jeong and Jin Eun Yoo
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:30
  32. Remote learning, or synchronous or asynchronous instruction provided to students outside the classroom, was a common strategy used by schools to ensure learning continuity for their students when many school b...

    Authors: Alec I. Kennedy, Ana María Mejía-Rodríguez and Andrés Strello
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:29
  33. 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 backgrou...

    Authors: Anna Scharl and Eva Zink
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:28
  34. Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) focuses on the reading proficiency of students mostly in the fourth year of schooling. A wide selection of studies has shown that family background and ...

    Authors: Kaisa Leino, Kari Nissinen and Marjo Sirén
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:25
  35. School-level inefficiencies and mismanagement can have serious repercussions for human resource development and labor market outcomes. This paper investigates the extent and consequences of existing technical ...

    Authors: Aditi Bhutoria and Nayyaf Aljabri
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:24
  36. Boys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia consistently and significantly underperform compared to girls across different grades and subjects, forming one of the largest gender gaps in student achievement in the worl...

    Authors: Mahmoud A. A. Elsayed, Aidan Clerkin, Vasiliki Pitsia, Nayyaf Aljabri and Khaleel Al-Harbi
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:23
  37. Reading and math proficiency are assumed to be crucial for the development of other academic skills. Further, different studies found reading and math development to be related. We contribute to the literature...

    Authors: Christoph Jindra, Karoline A. Sachse and Martin Hecht
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:22
  38. This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with academic composition utilising the National Assessment Progra...

    Authors: Michael G. Sciffer, Laura B. Perry and Andrew McConney
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:21
  39. We examine the sensitivity of the Heyneman-Loxley Effect to the influence of an error-prone family background measure in 15 education systems from Southern and Eastern Africa. Our aim is to revisit a claim by ...

    Authors: W. Joshua Rew, Anabelle Andon and Thomas F. Luschei
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:20
  40. In cognitive diagnosis assessment (CDA), the impact of misspecified item-attribute relations (or “Q-matrix”) designed by subject-matter experts has been a great challenge to real-world applications. This study...

    Authors: Jolien Delafontaine, Changsheng Chen, Jung Yeon Park and Wim Van den Noortgate
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:19
  41. We investigated the potential impact of differential item functioning (DIF) on group-level mean and standard deviation estimates using empirical and simulated data in the context of large-scale assessment. For...

    Authors: Sean Joo, Usama Ali, Frederic Robin and Hyo Jeong Shin
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:18

    The Correction to this article has been published in Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:27

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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.