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Marcq, Kseniia; Braeken, Johan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
Communication of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) results is dominated by reporting average country achievement scores that conceal individual differences between pupils, schools, and items. Educational research primarily focuses on examining differences between pupils and schools, while differences between items are overlooked. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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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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Wu, Xiaopeng; Wu, Rongxiu; Zhang, Yi; Arthur, David; Chang, Hua-Hua – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
Learning path and learning progression have received extensive attention from broad disciplines. The existing research In the field of learning path is rarely applied in curriculum learning and teaching. Learning progression is usually constructed through observations, interviews but not quantitative analyses. With 726 Grade 8 students'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Mathematics Skills, Learning Processes, Sequential Approach
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von Davier, Matthias; Yamamoto, Kentaro; Shin, Hyo Jeong; Chen, Henry; Khorramdel, Lale; Weeks, Jon; Davis, Scott; Kong, Nan; Kandathil, Mat – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
Based on concerns about the item response theory (IRT) linking approach used in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) until 2012 as well as the desire to include new, more complex, interactive items with the introduction of computer-based assessments, alternative IRT linking methods were implemented in the 2015 PISA round. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment