The “OECD Skills Outlook 2021: Learning for Life” report explores how public policy can and should play a key role in promoting effective and inclusive lifelong learning for all. Considering the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the world, and noting the importance of skills such as resilience, this report leverages comparative quantitative data to highlight the key role that socio-emotional and motivational factors play in shaping successful participation in lifelong learning.

The eleventh volume of the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA) Research for Education series, published in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers, addresses the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016.

This report presents a comparison study which was conducted by the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and  aims to understand the differences and similarities between the assessment framework targets and the characteristics of assessment items in two assessments: the Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) assessment, initiated by the U.S. Department of Education, and the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), initiated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).

This publication, prepared by NCES and AIR staff, introduces the item response theory (IRT)–based domain scoring method for analyzing student achievement at the topic level (within content areas), using data from TIMSS 2007 and 2011 assessments.

Based on empirical research, this webinar will highlight how the ILSA market emerged and operates, the structural nature of the ILSA market, the effects of the interrelationships amongst contractors that develop, administer, and analyze ILSAs, and how the interests of the contractors shape the dynamics of the ILSA market. Finally, this webinar aims to shed light on the global business dynamics that international education accountability mechanisms have generated and help to understand how these affect education.