The effects of age-based and grade-based sampling on the relative standing of countries in international comparative studies of student achievement

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-200

  O'Leary, Michael ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035532789     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411920120037135     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. BEATON, A. E., MARTIN, M. O. & MULLIS, I. V. S. (1997) Providing data for educational policy in an international context: the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 13, pp. 49-58.
2. BEATON, A. E., MARTIN, M. O., MULLIS, I. V. S., GONZALEZ, E. J., SMITH, T. A. & KELLY, D. L. (1996) Science Achievement in the Middle School Years: IEA's Third International Mathematics and Science Study (Chestnut Hill, MA, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, Boston College).
3. BROWN, M. (1999) Problems of interpreting international comparative date, in: B. JAWORSKI & D. PHILLIPS (Eds) Comparing Standards Internationally, pp. 183-205 (Oxford, Symposium Books).
4. COHEN, P. (1977) Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences (New York, Academic Press).
5. DORANS, N. J. & HOLLAND, P. W. (1993). DIF detection and description: Maentel-Haenszel and standardization, in: P. W. HOLLAND & H. WAINER (Eds) Differential Item Functioning, pp. 35-66 (Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum).
6. DURLAK, J. A. (1995) Understanding meta analysis, in: L. G. GRIMM & P. R. YARNOLD (Eds) Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics, pp. 319-352 (Washington, DC, American Psychological Association).
7. EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (1992) IAEP Technical Report: vol. 1, (Princeton, NJ, Educational Testing Service).
8. ELLEY, W. B. (Ed.) (1992) How in the world do students read? (The Hague, Netherlands, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement).
9. FOY, P. (1998) Sampling issues in international assessments, International Journal of Educational Research, 29, pp. 555-568.
10. GOLDSTEIN, H. (1995) Interpreting International Comparisons of Student Achievement (Paris, UNESCO).
11. GOLDSTEIN, H. (1997) International comparisons of student achievement, in: A. LITTLE & A. WOLF (Eds) Assessment in Transition: learning, monitoring and selection in international perspective, pp. 58-87 (Oxford, Pergamon).
12. HAIR, J. F., ANDERSON, R. E., TATHAM, R. L. & BLACK, W. C. (1995) Multivariate Data Analysis, 4th edn (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall).
13. HOLLAND, P. W. & THAYER, D. T. (1988) Differential item performance and the Mantel-Haentszel procedure, in: H. WAINER & H. I. BRAUN (Eds) Test Validity, pp. 129-145 (Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum).
14. IEA (1999) Trends in educational achievement: TIMSS-R (Chestnut Hill, MA, TIMSS International Study Center).
15. JAEGER, R. M. (1994) Evaluating policy inferences drawn from international comparisons of students achievement test performances, Studies in Educational Evaluation, 20, pp. 23-39.
16. KEEVES, J. P. (1992) Technical issues in the first and second IEA science studies, paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
17. KELLAGHAN, T. & GRISAY, A. (1995) International comparisons of student achievement: problems and prospects, in: ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPORATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) (Ed). Measuring What Students Learn (Paris, OECD).
18. LAPOINTE, A. E., MEAD, N. A. & PHILLIPS, G. W. (1988) A world of differences: An international assessment of mathematics and science (Princeton, NJ, Educational Testing Service).
19. LAPOINTE, A. E., ASKEW, J. M. & MEAD, N. A. (1992) Learning Science (Princeton, NJ, Educational Testing Service).
20. MARTIN, M. O., HICKEY, B. L. & MURCHAN, D. P. (1992) The second international assessment of educational progress: mathematics and science findings in Ireland, Irish Journal of Education, 26, pp. 3-146.
21. MARTIN, M. O. & KELLY, D. L. (1996) (Eds) Third International Mathematics and Science Study Technical Report Volume I: Design and development (Chestnut Hill, MA, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, Boston College).
22. MARTIN, M. O., MULLIS, I. V. S., BEATON, A. E., GONZALEZ, E. J., SMITH, T. A. & KELLY, D. L. (1997) Science Achievement in the Primary School Years: IEA's Third International Mathematics and Science Study (Chestnut Hill, MA, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, Boston College).
23. MISLEVY, R. J. (1995) What can we learn from international assessments, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 4, pp. 419-437.
24. O'LEARY, M. (1999). The validity and consistency of findings from international comparative studies of student achievement: a comparison of outcomes from IAEP2 and TIMSS, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston College, Massachusetts.
25. O'LEARY, M., MADAUS, G., KELLAGHAN, T. & BEATON, A. (2000) Consistency of findings across international surveys of mathematics and science achievement: A comparison of IAEP2 and TIMSS, Education Policy Analysis Archives 8, http://epaa.asu.edu/epaav8n43.html.
26. PLOMP, T. (1992) Conceptualizing a comparative educational research framework. Prospects, 22, pp. 278-288.
27. WILEY, D. E. & WOLFE, R. G. (1992) Major survey design issues for the IEA Third International Mathematics and Science Study, Prospects, 22, pp. 297-304.
28. WOLF, F. M. (1986) Meta Analysis: qualitative methods for research synthesis (Newbury Park, CA, Sage).