Opportunities

In order to better understand differences between education systems’ performance, background information on non-cognitive variables such as instructional practices or students’ motivation for mathematics and science; the journal of Studies in Educational Evaluation has launched a call for papers for a special issue on TIMSS. 

Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences is launching a special issue on The Use of Test Scores in Secondary Analysis in order to promote an inter-disciplinary dialogue between scholars who design the psychometric models used to estimate latent skills and researchers that use these data to investigate policy-relevant questions related to skills formation, skill utilization and returns to skill.

The Assembly is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication housed in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The goal of The Assembly is to promote public scholarship that is written in a clear, accessible manner to wide audiences. The intended audience is any stakeholders in education

Outcomes and Causal Inference in International Comparative Assessment European Training Network (OCCAM-ETN) has launched a blog site with the aim to disseminate research related to international large-scale assessments, such as PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, and ICCS.

The Institute of Education and the Center for Teacher Education of National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan is seeking a full-time assistant/associate/full professor tenure track position in education.

The Department of Counseling, Higher Education, & Special Education (CHSE) at the University of Maryland has announced a search for a tenure-track or tenured position in International Education Policy at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.

The Georg Eckert Institute Library and its association of supporters have established a fellowship programme for the promotion of international academic exchange and the development of international textbook research, with a particular emphasis on comparative approaches.

The Institute of Education and the Center for Teacher Education of National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, invites application for one full-time assistant/associate/full professor tenure track position in education.