TALIS Starting Strong 2024 Organization

Study director(s)

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
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
 

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: Stéphanie Jamet, Elizabeth Shuey