Handbook of international large-scale assessment : background, technical issues, and methods of data analysis /

Handbook of international large-scale assessment : background, technical issues, and methods of data analysis /

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Imprint:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2014]
Description:	xiii, 633 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Chapman & Hall/CRC statistics in the social and behavioral sciences series Statistics in the social and behavioral sciences series.
Subject:	Educational tests and measurements -- Cross-cultural studies. Academic achievement -- Cross-cultural studies. Educational tests and measurements -- Methodology. Educational tests and measurements -- Statistics. Academic achievement. Educational tests and measurements. Educational tests and measurements -- Methodology. Cross-cultural studies. Statistics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9847242

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Other authors / contributors:	Rutkowski, Leslie, editor of compilation. Davier, Matthias von, editor of compilation. Rutkowski, David, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9781439895122 (hardback) 1439895120 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Introduction The origins of modern day international assessments of student skills are often traced back to the First International Mathematics Study (FIMS) conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in the early 1960s. The undertaking of an international project at that time, with few modern technological conveniences to speak of (no email, fax, internet and only minimal access to international phone lines) and a shoestring budget, speaks to the dedication and vision of the scholars that were willing to attempt such a feat. The first executive director of the IEA, T. Neville Postlethwaite (1933-2009), once recounted the story of sending off the first round of assessments and not knowing for months if the assessment booklets had even arrived at their destinations, let alone whether or not the assessment was actually being administered in the 12 countries that initially participated"--

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