PIRLS 2026 Organization

Initiator

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) - Dirk Hastedt, Executive Director

IEA Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

  • Initiator
  • Stakeholder relations
  • Overall support in coordinating PIRLS
  • Management of country participation
  • Verification of translations produced by participating countries
  • Coordination of quality control process

IEA Hamburg (Germany)

  • Monitoring and documenting of sampling activities together with Statistics Canada
  • Processing and verification of data submitted by participants
  • Monitoring of PIRLS database to ensure accuracy and consistency within and across countries
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Study director(s)

TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Lynch School of Education, Boston College - Matthias von Davier, Executive Director

  • Overall direction and project coordination
  • Responsible for  
    • Design
    • Development
    • Implementation
    • Localization of national instruments
    • Operations
    • Analysis
    • Reporting
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Institutions and their responsibilities

RTI International

  • Overseeing all sampling-related activities in close collaboration with IEA Hamburg Sampling Unit 
  • Advising the National Research Coordinators on all sampling matters for ensuring that the national sampling plans conform to the PIRLS standards.

 

National Research Coordinators (NRCs)

Implementation of all aspects of the study in their respective countries in accordance with PIRLS guidelines and procedures, including:

  • Communicating with study partners
  • Contributing to item development
  • Conducting classroom sampling, data collection, and all scoring and data entry tasks.
  • Provision of input throughout the course of the project

 

Expert Committees

  • PIRLS 2026 Reading Development Group (RDG)
    • Provides expert advice on the establishment of the PIRLS 2026 reading assessment:
      • Updating the assessment framework
      • Test development – periodic reviews of texts and items
      • Participation in scale anchoring of PIRLS International Benchmarks
  • PIRLS 2026 Questionnaire Development Group (QDG)
    • Participation in the development of the contextual framework and background questionnaires
    • Education policy analysis and survey development
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Contact

IEA

Keizersgracht 311

1016 EE Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 625 3625

Fax: +31 20 420 7136

E-mail: secretariat@iea.nl

URL: http://www.iea.nl

 

TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center

Boston College

140 Commonwealth Ave.

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

USA

Tel: +1 617 552 1600

Fax: +1 617 552 1203

E-mail: timssandpirls@bc.edu

URL: http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/index.html

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Sources
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Editor(s) and author(s) of study-related gateway pages
  • Editors
    • Erin Wry, PIRLS Coordinator, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College
    • Ann Kennedy, Senior Research Director, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College
  • Authors (based on study documents)
    • Nathalie Mertes, ILSA Gateway Project Lead, IEA Hamburg
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