LaNA 2023 Linking Study Fact Sheet
(Note: Can be administered at any time. LaNA 2023 was a Linking Study administration.)
- Year 1, Month 1: Inception meeting
- Year 1, Month 3: Practice administration
- Year 1, Month 8: Main data collection
- Year 1, Months 11-12: Data processing and weighting
- Year 2, Month 4: Release of report and database
- Allow off-cycle monitoring of system-level trends in student achievement in mathematics and reading at the end of primary education.
- Allow countries wanting to measure emerging mathematics and reading skills a low effort entry into international educational assessments.
- Provide valid and reliable measurement toward SDG 4.1.1b.
- Compare LaNA results in a global context via link to the TIMSS and PIRLS scales and international benchmarks.
- Monitor the impact of new or revised policy interventions.
- Identify any underperforming areas and stimulate curricular reform.
- Gather and provide information and data for improving learning and teaching in mathematics and reading.
- Mathematics (Numeracy)
- Reading (Literacy)
LaNA is based on TIMSS Assessment Frameworks and PIRLS Assessment Frameworks.
Assessment frameworkS
Reading
- Purposes for reading
- Reading for literary experience
- Acquire and use information
- Processes of comprehension
- Focus on and retrieve explicitly stated information
- Make straightforward inferences
- Interpret and integrate ideas and information
- Evaluate and critique content and textual elements
Mathematics
The mathematics curriculum (overarching concept):
- As intended to be taught—intended curriculum
- As implemented in the classroom—implemented curriculum
- As learned by students—attained curriculum
Grade 4 mathematics assessment framework:
- Content domains
- Number
- Measurement and geometry
- Data
- Cognitive domains
- Knowing
- Applying
- Reasoning
Contextual or background framework
- School contexts
- School characteristics
- Instructional time
- School resources
- School climate
- School discipline, safety, and bullying
- Student attributes
- Student demographics
- Home environment
- Student condition at school arrival
- Student absences
- Sense of school belonging
- Attitudes towards learning
- Attitudes towards the teacher
Off-cycle administration. For the LaNA 2023 Linking Study, six countries participated altogether: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine (West Bank), and Senegal.
Target population
Students enrolled in Grade 4, 5, or 6, counting from the first year of ISCED Level 1.
The most suitable grade for a LaNA administration will be determined in agreement with the LaNA participant and based on available information of the average student achievement/results from the practice administration.
Sample
Per country: 100+ schools aiming at a minimum of 4,500 participating students.
Paper-based assessment consisting of four LaNA mathematics and reading booklets.
Student populations with a somewhat higher ability are advised to additionally administer additional four booklets consisting of (easy) TIMSS/PIRLS item blocks.
Oliver Neuschmidt
IEA - Hamburg
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22297 Hamburg
Germany
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Fax: +49 48500-501
E-mail: Oliver.Neuschmidt@iea-hamburg.de
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Clara Wilsher Beyer
IEA - Hamburg
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22297 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 48500-707
Fax: +49 48500-501
E-mail: Clara.Beyer@iea-hamburg.de
URL: https://www.iea.nl/about/org/people/clara-beyer