TALIS Starting Strong 2024 Organization
Study director(s)
IEA Hamburg International Co-Study Directors: Anja Waschk, Steffen Knoll, 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)
Institutions and their responsibilities
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
Contact
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
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