5th IEA IRC, 2013
26-28 June 2013, Singapore
The 5th IEA International Research Conference (IRC-2013) was organized in cooperation with the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Conference program
The conference program included four keynote lectures and paper presentations reporting on a wide range of secondary research using data from IEA studies, including ICCS, CIVED, ICILS, PIRLS, prePIRLS, TEDS-M, TIMSS, and TIMSS Advanced.
The papers from the conference are listed below; papers that are available for download are indicated with a link.
The conference was preceded on 24–25 June 2013 by a series of training workshops: "Introduction to IEA Databases and IDB Analyzer," "Using HLM with International Large-Scale Assessment Data," "Assessment Designs, Item Response Theory, and Proficiency Estimates," and "Sampling in Large-Scale Assessments in Education."
Keynote presentations
Mullis, Ina V.S.
Martin, Michael O.
TIMSS and PIRLS 2011: A cross-country analysis of relative school effectiveness of reading, mathematics and science at the fourth grade
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ICCS and CIVED
Ainley, John
Schulz, Wolfram
Fraillon, Julian
Attitudes towards political engagement among lower secondary students in East Asian countries
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Bascopé, Martín
Bonhomme, Macarena
Cox, Cristian
Castillo, Juan Carlos
Miranda, Daniel
National curricular guidelines and citizenship education in schools in Latin American countries
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Carrasco, Diego
Gonzalez, Roberto
Cortés, Flavio
García, Leonardo
Dassen, Nicolás
Civic knowledge and student attitudes towards corruption
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Friedman, Tim
Schulz, Wolfram
Fraillon, Julian
Ainley, John
Civic knowledge and engagement among students from immigrant and non-immigrant backgrounds
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Idnurm, Tõnu
Toots, Anu
Political activism of low achieving and high achieving students in 10 European countries
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Mirazchiyski, Plamen
Cortés, Diego
A 1999–2009 trend in expected electoral participation in seven European post-communist countries
Sandoval-Hernandez, Andres
Exploring school resilience to violence in Mexico and Colombia
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Schulz, Wolfram
Ainley, John
Fraillon, Julian
Student participation at school and future civic engagement
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Straková, Jana
Simonová, Jaroslava
Impact of track attended on civic attitudes of secondary school students in the Czech Republic
Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota
Isac, Maria Magdalena
Cross-national equivalence of students' perceptions of good citizenship in ICCS
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Zhu, Jinxin
Kuang, Xiaoxue
Kennedy, Kerry John
Ching Mok, Magdalena Mo
Predictors of Asian adolescents' expected future legal protest participation
ICILS
Fraillon, Julian
Ainley, John
Gebhardt, Eveline
Schulz, Wolfram
Measuring computer and information literacy across countries
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Gebhardt, Eveline
De Bortoli, Lisa
Equating from a national to an international assessment
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Tee, Oon Pey
Law, Nancy
Soojin, Kim
Kim, Sungsook
Ki, Tse See
Psychometric assessment of ICILS test items on Hong Kong and Korean students
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PIRLS and prePIRLS
Lee, Moosung
Walker, Allan
Ryoo, Ji-Hoon
Exploring relationships among macro contexts, principals' time use for interaction with individual students and academic achievement
Raimondi, Erica
Schools and social origins: Do schools matter more for disadvantaged students?
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Strietholt, Rolf
Hogrebe, Nina
Böttcher, Wolfgang
Bos, Wilfried
Effects of early home and preschool environments on reading literacy
Van Staden, Surette
Bosker, Roel
Factors that affect South African reading literacy achievement
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PIRLS and TIMSS
Leng Ng, Hui
Fah Foo, Seau
Lim, Pik Yen
Poon, Chew Leng
Is English proficiency a source of construct-irrelevant variance in student performance in TIMSS 2011?
Leng Ng, Hui
Poon, Chew Leng
Chan, Lee Shan
Bian Ng, Huey
Use of English at home and Singapore student performance in PIRLS and TIMSS
Meinck, Sabine
Vandenplas, Caroline
Hierarchical modeling with large‐scale assessment data
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Mullis, Ina V.S.
Martin, Michael O.
Foy, Pierre
The impact of reading ability on TIMSS mathematics and science achievement at the fourth grade
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Rosén, Monica
Gustafsson, Jan-Eric
Hansen, Kajsa Yang
Influences of early home factors on later achievement in reading, math and science
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TEDS-M
Hsieh, Chia-Jui
Wu, Pei-Chen
Tang, Shu-Jyh
Hsieh, Feng-Jui
How do the reasons to become a teacher influence future secondary mathematics teachers' teaching competence and intention toward a teaching career?
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TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced
Abu-Hilal, Maher M.
Abdelfattah, Faisal
Abduljabbar, Adel
Marsh, Herbert W.
Attitudes toward school, homework, subject matter value, self-concept and positive affect
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Burdett, Newman
Sturman, Linda
A comparison of PISA and TIMSS against England's national curriculum
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Hooper, Martin
Arora, Alka
Martin, Michael O.
Mullis, Ina V.S.
Examining the behavior of 'reverse directional' items in the TIMSS 2011 context questionnaire scales
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Hung, Yi-Chen
Liou, Pey-Yan
Examining the relationship between student academic achievement and self-concept in the I/E, BFLPE, and combined models
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Ji, Xueying
Zhang, Qiaoping
Effects of teaching strategy on student mathematics achievement addressing cognitive domains
Kabiri, Masoud
Estimation of science topic area scores for Iranian eight grader in TIMSS 2007
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Kabiri, Masoud
Ghazi-Tabatabaei, Mahmood
Analysis of science intended curriculum based on topics recurrent
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Kim, Soojin
Park, Jihyun
Park, Sangwook
Kim, Sungsook
The effects of school and students' educational contexts in Korea, Singapore, and Finland using TIMSS 2011
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Kupari, Pekka
Nissinen, Kari
Background factors behind mathematics achievement in Finnish education context
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Laukaityte, Inga
Wiberg, Marie
Using plausible values in secondary analysis in the large-scale assessment TIMSS
Lin, Su-Wei
Hung, Pi-Hsia
Lin, Fou-Lai
A remedial action based on Taiwanese students' results of TIMSS
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Liou, Pey-Yan
Hung, Ji-Chen
Statistical techniques utilized in analyzing TIMSS databases in science education from 1996 to 2012
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Llameva, d-r Beti
Chonteva, Zhaneta
A cross-ethnic comparison of mathematics achievement in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2011 (TIMSS)
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Meelissen, M.R.M.
Drent, M.
Sleegers, P.J.C.
Teachers' professional engagement and student achievement in physics
Rolfsman, Ewa
Wiberg, Marie
Laukaityte, Inga
School effectiveness in the Nordic countries in relation to PISA and TIMSS
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Rutkowski, David
Rutkowski, Leslie
Wild, Justin
Predictors of school violence internationally
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Vettenranta, Jouni
Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi
A new way of recognizing the spatial distribution of educational issues
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Wiberg, Marie
Rolfsman, Ewa
Laukaityte, Inga
School effectiveness in mathematics in Sweden and Norway 2003, 2007 and 2011
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