Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Subtitle: PISA 2000 Technical Report
By: edited by Ray Adams and Margaret Wu
Series: PISA
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789264199521
Subjects: Education
Description: The PISA 2000 Technical Report describes the complex methodology underlying PISA 2000, along with additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses. It presents information on the test and sample design, methodologies used to analyse the data, technical features of the project and quality control mechanisms.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. The Programme for International Student Assessment: An Overview; title: Reader's Guide; title: SECTION ONE: INSTRUMENT DESIGN; title: Chapter 2. Test Design and Test Development; title: Chapter 3. Student and School Questionnaire Development; title: SECTION TWO: OPERATIONS; title: Chapter 4. Sample Design; title: Chapter 5. Translation and Cultural Appropriateness of the Test and Survey Material; title: Chapter 6. Field Operations; title: Chapter 7. Quality Monitoring; title: SECTION THREE: DATA PROCESSING; title: Chapter 8. Survey Weighting and the Calculation of Sampling Variance; title: Chapter 9. Scaling PISA Cognitive Data; title: Chapter 10. Coding and Marker Reliability Studies; title: Chapter 11. Data Cleaning Procedures; title: SECTION FOUR: QUALITY INDICATORS AND OUTCOMES; title: Chapter 12. Sampling Outcomes; title: Chapter 13. Scaling Outcomes; title: Chapter 14. Outcomes of Marker Reliability Studies; title: Chapter 15. Data Adjudication; title: SECTION FIVE: SCALE CONSTRUCTION AND DATA PRODUCTS; title: Chapter 16.Proficiency Scales Construction; title: Chapter 17. Constructing and Validating the Questionnaire Indices; title: Chapter 18. International Database; title: Appendix 1. Summary of PISA Reading Literacy Terms; title: Appendix 2. Summary of PISA Mathematical Literacy Terms; title: Appendix 3. Summary of PISA Scientific Literacy Terms; title: Appendix 4. The Validity Studies of Occupation and Socio-Economic Status; title: Appendix 5. The Main Findings from Quality Monitoring of the PISA 2000 Main Study; title: Appendix 6. Order Effects Figures; title: Appendix 7. PISA 2000 Expert Group Membership and Consortium Staff; title: Appendix 8. Contrast Coding for PISA 2000 Conditioning Variables; title: Appendix 9. Sampling Forms; title: Appendix 10. Student Listing Form; title: Appendix 11. Student Tracking Form; title: Appendix 12. Adjustment to BRR for Strata with Odd Numbers of Primary Sampling Units