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John Jerrim; Philip D. Parker; Nikki Shure – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
This paper investigates the phenomena of overclaiming -- the propensity for individuals to claim more knowledge about an issue or topic than they really (or could possibly) do. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from nine Anglophone countries and over 40,000 young people, we examine teenagers' propensity to claim…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Zieger, Laura Raffaella; Jerrim, J.; Anders, J.; Shure, N. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has become one of the key studies for evidence-based education policymaking across the globe. PISA has however received a lot of methodological criticism, including how the test scores are created. The aim of this paper is to investigate the so-called 'conditioning model', where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Zhou, Ji; He, Jia; Lafontaine, Dominique – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2020
Accurate measurement of metacognitive knowledge in reading is important. Different instruments and scoring methods have been proposed but not systematically compared for their measurement comparability across cultures and validity. Given student data from 34 OECD countries in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009, we…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Test Validity, Metacognition, International Assessment
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He, Jia; Barrera-Pedemonte, Fabián; Buchholz, Janine – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
Noncognitive assessments in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study share certain similarities and provide complementary information, yet their comparability is seldom checked and convergence not sought. We made use of student self-report data of Instrumental Motivation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education