Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement
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Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement

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  1. 385 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement

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About this book

In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a four--decade period, to evaluate improvement in the quality of the methodologies used in international studies, and to identify the most pressing methodological issues that remain to be solved. Since 1960, the United States has participated in 15 large--scale cross--national education surveys. The most assessed subjects have been science and mathematics through reading comprehension, geography, nonverbal reasoning, literature, French, English as a foreign language, civic education, history, computers in education, primary education, and second--language acquisition. The papers prepared for this symposium and discussions of those papers make up the volume, representing the most up--to--date and comprehensive assessment of methodological strengths and weaknesses of international comparative studies of student achievement. These papers answer the following questions: (1) What is the methodological quality of the most recent international surveys of student achievement? How authoritative are the results? (2) Has the methodological quality of international achievement studies improved over the past 40 years? and (3) What are promising opportunities for future improvement?

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9780309506885
Edition
0
Topic
Education

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
  2. Reviewers
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Progress and Challenges for Large-Scale Studies
  6. 2 The Measurement of Student Achievement in International Studies
  7. 3 Adapting Achievement Tests into Multiple Languages for International Assessments
  8. 4 Sampling Issues in Design, Conduct, and Interpretation of International Comparative Studies of School Achievement
  9. 5 Cultural-Cognitive Issues in Academic Achievement: New Directions for Cross-National Research
  10. 6 Measuring Family Background in International Studies of Education: Conceptual Issues and Methodological Challenges
  11. 7 Advancements in Conceptualizing and Analyzing Cultural Effects in Cross-National Studies of Educational Achievement1
  12. 8 The Measurement of Opportunity to Learn1
  13. 9 Statistical Issues in Analysis of International Comparisons of Educational Achievement
  14. 10 Drawing Inferences for National Policy from Large-Scale Cross-National Education Surveys1
  15. 11 Large-Scale, Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement: Promises, Pitfalls, and Possibilities
  16. A Symposium Agenda and Participants
  17. B Biographical Sketches of Board Members
  18. Index