Research Catalog

Title

Methodological advances in cross-national surveys of educational achievement / Board on International Comparative Studies in Education ; Andrew C. Porter and Adam Gamoran, editors.

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academy Press, ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• Porter, Andrew C.
• Gamoran, Adam, 1957-
• National Research Council (U.S.). Board on International Comparative Studies in Education.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Center for Education. Board on Testing and Assessment.

Description

xii, 372 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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 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.

Subject

• Education > Research > Methodology > Congresses
• Academic achievement > Congresses
• Comparative education > Congresses
• 81.07 comparative education
• Academic achievement
• Comparative education
• Education > Research > Methodology
• Forschung
• Kongress
• Methodologie
• Pädagogik
• Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
• Vergelijkende onderwijskunde
• Studieresultaten
• Survey-onderzoek
• Methodologie
• élève > évaluation > enquête > méthodologie > congrès
• comparaison internationale > élève > évaluation > enquête > congrès

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
• Papers and discussions from a public symposium held by the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) of the National Research Council in November 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Progress and Challenges for Large-Scale Studies / Andrew C. Porter and Adam Gamoran -- 2. The Measurement of Student Achievement in International Studies / Robert L. Linn -- 3. Adapting Achievement Tests into Multiple Languages for International Assessments / Ronald K. Hambleton -- 4. Sampling Issues in Design, Conduct, and Interpretation of International Comparative Studies of School Achievement / James R. Chromy -- 5. Cultural-Cognitive Issues in Academic Achievement: New Directions for Cross-National Research / Janine Bempechat, Norma V. Jimenez and Beth A. Boulay -- 6. Measuring Family Background in International Studies of Education: Conceptual Issues and Methodological Challenges / Claudia Buchmann -- 7. Advancements in Conceptualizing and Analyzing Cultural Effects in Cross-National Studies of Educational Achievement / Gerald K. LeTendre -- 8. The Measurement of Opportunity to Learn / Robert E. Floden -- 9. Statistical Issues in Analysis of International Comparisons of Educational Achievement / Stephen W. Raudenbush and Ji-Soo Kim -- 10. Drawing Inferences for National Policy from Large-Scale Cross-National Education Surveys / Marshall S. Smith -- 11. Large-Scale, Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement: Promises, Pitfalls, and Possibilities / Brian Rowan -- App. A: Symposium Agenda and Participants -- App. B: Biographical Sketches of Board Members.

ISBN

• 0309083338
• 9780309083331

LCCN

2002002602

OCLC

• ocm49283735
• 49283735
• SCSB-8901382

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library