TALIS 2024 Organization

Initiator

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  • Overall management
  • Mediation between TALIS Governing Board (TGB) and international contractor IEA
  • Fostering consensus across TALIS countries /sub-national entities
  • Analysis, reporting, and dissemination of data
  • Long-term strategic directions for TALIS
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Study director(s)

IEA Hamburg International Co-Study Directors: Anja Waschk, Steffen Knoll / Senior Strategic Advisor: Ralph Carstens

  • Served as International Study Centre (ISC) 
  • Responsible for overall survey planning, all sampling-related activities, survey administration, and international data management 
  • Coordinated the conceptual framework and the questionnaire expert groups
  • Involved in weighting and analysis of the data
  • Oversaw and advised on all tasks related to data processing, scaling, meeting organization, ICT services, software development, and programming
  • Provided all countries/territories with within-school sampling, data entry, and on-line data collection software; conducted training in the use of the three programs to NPMs
  • Maintained close contact with NPMs, NDMs, NSMs

 

IEA Amsterdam

  • Coordinated the international translation verification process
  • Implemented the International Quality Observation program (IQO)
  • Functioned as main contact for International Quality Observers (IQOs) 
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Institutions and their responsibilities

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER, Melbourne, Australia)

  • Framework development TALIS core and TKS
  • Instrument development for TKS
  • Scaling of TKS data
  • Quality control of final report tables
  • Advises on analysis

 

RAND Europe (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

  • Framework development TALIS Starting Strong
  • Instrument development for TALIS Starting Strong

 

cApStAn Linguistic quality control (Brussels, Belgium)

  • Translation verification of all language translations used in TALIS 2024
  • Linguistic quality control

 

Questionnaire Expert Group (experts and ex-officio members)

  • Translates policy priorities into questionnaires

 

Extended Questionnaire Expert Group

  • Advises on questionnaire development

 

Technical Advisory Group (5 members)

  • Advises on technical or analytical issues

 

National Managers 

  • National project managers
  • National data managers
  • National sampling managers

Responsibilities:

  • Technical and operational procedures
  • Ensure the security of coordination and cooperation of and with schools
  • Oversee national adaptation
  • Verify the translation and validation of questionnaires using the IEA Study Expert software
  • Manage data collection and processing procedure
  • Verify obtained results
  • Establish overall survey preparation and survey administration schedule in cooperation with the ISC
  • Provide up-to-date national sampling frame
  • Perform within-school sampling and tracking using IEA WinW3S
  • Nominate and train school coordinators and national quality control monitors
  • Monitor the return status of the on-line questionnaires using the software tool provided by the ISC
  • Use IEA DME Tools to perform quality control procedures
  • Complete the survey activities questionnaire after survey administration
  • Send data files to the ISC and respond to questions from the center

 

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Contact

OECD TALIS

2, rue André Pascal

75775 Paris Cedex 16

France

Email: ruochen.li@oecd.org; edutalis@oecd.org

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Sources
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Editor(s) and author(s) of study-related gateway pages
  • Steffen Knoll, IEA TALIS 2024 Study Co-Director, IEA Hamburg, Germany
  • Anja Waschk, IEA TALIS 2024 Study Co-Director, IEA Hamburg, Germany
  • Ruochen Li, Project Manager TALIS 2024, OECD
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