IELS 2025 Organization

Initiator

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Overall IELS governance was through a secretariat based in the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills

 

(Overall) Coordinators: OECD Directorate for Education and Skills

  • Managed the international contractor
  • Liaised with national project managers (NPM) and national government representatives
  • Authored the main international reports, the reports of the findings within each of the three participating countries and the Assessment Framework
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Study director(s)

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) - Maurice Walker, International Project Director

  • Project management
  • Assessment development
  • Contextual questionnaire development
  • Delivery platform development
  • Construction of psychometric scales and indices for cognitive, social-emotional, and contextual data
  • Analysis of result and production of statistical tables
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Institutions and their responsibilities

IEA

  • Field operations
  • Sample design and selection, survey weighting
  • International Quality Assurance Monitoring
  • Data management
  • International database construction

 

cApStAn

  • Linguistic quality assurance

 

Specialized groups

  • Expert Advisory Group (EAG)
  • Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

 

Provided input to

  • Assessment framework for the study
  • Instrument development for the assessments and contextual information
  • Analysis of findings

 

National Project Managers (NPMs)

  • Supporting, promoting, and organizing the study within each participant country
  • Gathering sample information
  • Providing feedback on the assessment development
  • Obtaining and configuring delivery hardware
  • Training center/school coordinators and study administrators
  • Recruiting education centers/schools, teachers, and parents to participate
  • Managing their own data submission
  • Developing their own national report
  • Other communications
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Contact

OECD Early Childhood and Schools
2 rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16

E-mail: earlylearning@oecd.org 

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Funding

The study was funded predominantly by the participating countries.

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Sources
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Editor(s) and author(s) of study-related gateway pages
  • Project Lead: Claudia Tamassia, OECD
  • International Study Director: Maurice Walker, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Other experts
    • Dan Cloney, Deputy International Study Director, ACER
    • Alla Berezner, Psychometric Lead, ACER
    • Sandra Knowles, Assessment Content Lead, ACER
    • Tim Friedmann, Questionnaire Content Lead, ACER
    • Karen Wright, Delivery Technology Lead, ACER
    • Clara Beyer, Project Manager, IEA Hamburg
    • Juliane Kobelt, Project Manager, IEA Hamburg
    • Darrell Gwaltney, International Data Manager, IEA Hamburg

 

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