IERI Spring Academy 2022

Introduction

The IEA-ETS Research Institute (IERI) is organizing an online academy on conduction secondary analysis using data from international large-scale assessments such as TIMSS, PIRLS, and the OECD studies. The following topics will be covered:

• Overview of the surveys and available data
• Review of the background questionnaires
• Sampling and assessment design issues and implications for the analysis 
  • Overview of sampling
  • Sampling variance estimation
  • Assessment design
  • Principles of item response theory
  • Principles of multiple imputations
  • Estimating sampling variance
• Using the IEA's IDB Analyzer to analyze international large-scale assessment data 
  • The Merge Module
  • The Analysis Module
• Using the International Data Explorer
• Calculating standard errors with complex designs 
  • Working with independent and dependent samples
  • Working with composite statistics
• Combining variables, creating and validating indices