Assessment of Reading in International Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367245375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 140 str.

Jenny Lenkeit; Knut Schwippert

Opis

This book brings together contributions from different scholarly contexts that address a diverse range of focused topics, as well as empirical and conceptual perspectives, on research with international studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education.

Spis treści

Introduction – Doing research with international assessment studies: methodological and conceptual challenges and ways forward Jenny Lenkeit and Knut Schwippert 1. Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data Daniel H. Caro, Leonidas Kyriakides and Ioulia Televantou 2. Distributional properties of the PIRLS-home resource for learning scale and observed effects on reading achievement: are measurements of educational inequalities by latent indices without bias? Anke Hußmann and Daniel Kasper 3. Configurations of multiple disparities in reading performance: longitudinal observations across France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom Jenny Lenkeit, Knut Schwippert and Michel Knigge 4. Understanding language in education and grade 4 reading performance using a ‘natural experiment’ of Botswana and South Africa Debra Lynne Shepherd 5. Can test construction account for varying gender differences in international reading achievement tests of children, adolescents and young adults? – A study based on Nordic results in PIRLS, PISA and PIAAC Oddny Judith Solheim and Kjersti Lundetræ 6. Improving international assessment through evaluation David Rutkowski