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Author:   Jenny Lenkeit ,  Knut Schwippert
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780367728281

ISBN 10:   0367728281
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction – Doing research with international assessment studies: methodological and conceptual challenges and ways forward 1. Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data 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? 3. Configurations of multiple disparities in reading performance: longitudinal observations across France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom 4. Understanding language in education and grade 4 reading performance using a ‘natural experiment’ of Botswana and South Africa 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 6. Improving international assessment through evaluation

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Jenny Lenkeit works at Potsdam University, Germany, and conducts research concerned with Educational Effectiveness, International Large-Scale Assessments, and Inclusive Education. Knut Schwippert is Full Professor for Educational Empirical Research at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He works in the context of large-scale school comparison studies, in which he deals especially with issues concerning the relationship between migration background, social status, and educational success.

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