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

Sources
Editor(s) and author(s) of study-related gateway pages
  • TALIS 2024 Co-Directors at IEA Hamburg: Steffen Knoll and Anja Waschk
  • OECD Project Management Team: Ruochen Li, Emily Groves