Download e-book for iPad: Comparing Learning Outcomes: International Assessment and by Jay Moskowitz, Maria Stephens

By Jay Moskowitz, Maria Stephens

Comparing studying results provides an insider's examine the coverage and sensible concerns in undertaking and utilizing the data from foreign exams of schooling and is a key source for researchers and policymakers in schooling. This e-book covers various vital themes concerning foreign comparative overview together with: * heritage of overseas evaluate, the standards contributing to its development and the affects of such progress * What it capability to evaluate assorted domain names * How info shape overseas checks has been utilized by coverage makers in several nations * Technical concerns in analysing and utilizing evaluate information. Reflecting the expanding involvement of coverage makers within the box of overseas schooling evaluate Comparing studying results brings jointly the collaborative learn of execs in eleven nations engaged on a undertaking for the OECD (Organisation for monetary Cooperation and Development), accumulating cross-national, comparative details on schooling to be used for governments.

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One can argue that the emergence of IRT scaling forced a transition from intuition or empirical approach to test development to a more theoretical approach and the technically more complex quest for an appropriate balance among items. Design of the assessment and reporting scale The use of IRT analyses (Rasch 1980) in large-scale comparative assessments can be regarded as one of the major breakthroughs in the last twenty years in comparative assessment. As described earlier, the use of IRT scales contributed to the introduction of a stage of theoretical conceptualisation prior to the design of the assessments.

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