TALIS Starting Strong 2024 Organization
IEA Secretariat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Key Roles:
- 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
IEA Hamburg (International Study Center) - IEA TALIS Co-Directors: Anja Waschk, Steffen Knoll, Ralph Carstens
Key Roles:
- Served 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
- Coordinated questionnaire expert groups
- Oversaw and advised on all tasks related to data processing, scaling, meeting organization, ICT services, software development, and programming
- Provided all countries/sub-national entities with within-school sampling, data entry, and on-line data collection software; offered training in the use of the three programs to NRCs
- Coordinated survey administration at the international level
- Maintained close contact with national data managers
Rand Europe (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Framework development for TALIS Starting Strong
- Instrument development for TALIS Starting Strong
cApStAn Linguistic quality control (Brussels, Belgium)
- Translation verification of all language translations
- Linguistic quality control
Expert Groups
Questionnaire Expert Group (3 experts and ex-officio members)
- Translated policy priorities into questionnaires
Extended Questionnaire Expert group (4 members)
- Advised on questionnaire development
Technical Advisory Group (5 members)
- Advised on technical and analytical issues
National Managers
National project managers (NPMs)
National data managers (NDMs)
National sampling managers (NSMs)
- Responsible for technical and operational procedures
- Ensured the security of coordination and cooperation of and with ECEC settings
- Oversaw national adaptation
- Verified the translation and validation of questionnaires using the IEA Study Expert software
- Managed data collection and processing procedure
- Verified obtained results
- Established overall survey preparation and survey administration schedule in cooperation with the ISC
- Provided up-to-date national sampling frame
- Performed within-setting sampling and tracking using IEA WinW3S
- Nominated and trained ECEC setting coordinators and national quality control monitors
- Monitored the return status of the on-line questionnaires using the software tool provided by the ISC
- Used IEA DME tools to perform quality control procedures
- Completed the survey activities questionnaire after survey administration
- Sent data files to the ISC and responded to questions from the center
Elizabeth Shuey
OECD Starting Strong Teaching and Learning International Survey
Postal address
OECD TALIS Starting Strong
2 rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
E-mail: StartingStrongSurvey@oecd.org
Phone: +33 1 45 24 82 00
Fax: +33 1 45 24 85 00