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The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and Methodological Innovations in Longitudinal Large-Scale Assessments

  1. One major aim of international large-scale assessments (ILSA) like PISA is to monitor changes in student performance over time. To accomplish this task, a set of common items (i.e., link items) is repeatedly a...

    Authors: Alexander Robitzsch and Oliver Lüdtke
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:26
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  2. The purpose of this paper is to extend and evaluate methods of Bayesian historical borrowing applied to longitudinal data with a focus on parameter recovery and predictive performance. Bayesian historical borrowi...

    Authors: David Kaplan, Jianshen Chen, Weicong Lyu and Sinan Yavuz
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2023 11:2
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  3. Educational large-scale assessments (LSAs) often provide plausible values for the administered competence tests to facilitate the estimation of population effects. This requires the specification of a backgrou...

    Authors: Anna Scharl and Eva Zink
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:28
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Reading and math proficiency are assumed to be crucial for the development of other academic skills. Further, different studies found reading and math development to be related. We contribute to the literature...

    Authors: Christoph Jindra, Karoline A. Sachse and Martin Hecht
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:22
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  5. This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with academic composition utilising the National Assessment Progra...

    Authors: Michael G. Sciffer, Laura B. Perry and Andrew McConney
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:21
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  6. This paper examines the overarching question of to what extent different analytic choices may influence the inference about country-specific cross-sectional and trend estimates in international large-scale ass...

    Authors: Jörg-Henrik Heine and Alexander Robitzsch
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:10
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  7. One major challenge of longitudinal data analysis is to find an appropriate statistical model that corresponds to the theory of change and the research questions at hand. In the present article, we argue that con...

    Authors: Julian F. Lohmann, Steffen Zitzmann, Manuel C. Voelkle and Martin Hecht
    Citation: Large-scale Assessments in Education 2022 10:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on: