TALIS 2024 Organization
Study director(s)
IEA Secretariat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Manages contractor finances and contracts
- Verifies translation procedures for survey questions
- Ensures quality of survey implementation in all participating countries/sub-national entities
- Coordinates quality control procedures
- Oversees the verification of translations of questionnaires
- Appoints, contracts, and trains independent international quality control monitors
IEA Hamburg (Germany) - Steffen Knoll, Anja Waschk, Ralph Carstens
- Serves as International Study Centre (ISC) and appoints international study directors
- Responsible for overall budget, contractual agreements, and international schedule
- Responsible for coordinating the conceptual framework
- Coordinates questionnaire expert groups
- Oversees and advises on all tasks related to data processing, scaling, meeting organization, ICT services, software development, and programming
- Provides all countries/sub-national entities with within-school sampling, data entry, and on-line data collection software; offers training in the use of the three programs to NRCs
- Coordinates survey administration at the international level
- Maintains close contact with national data managers
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
Contact
OECD TALIS
2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
Email: ruochen.li@oecd.org; edutalis@oecd.org
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