Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes
Relationships Across Countries, Cohorts and Time
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Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes in TIMSS and PISA
While there is consensus that teachers’ teaching quality is of utmost importance to student outcomes, conceptualizations and measures differ between studies and countries. Moreover, it is not clear which aspec...
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60-Years of ILSA: Where It Stands and How It Evolves
The handbook provides extensive and comprehensive overview of theories, methods, and results from ILSA presented by excellent authors from the field of educational research and beyond. The discussion chapter a...
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Methods of Causal Analysis with ILSA Data
One main aim of ILSAs (International Large Scale Assessments) is to develop an empirically based foundation of knowledge for improvement of educational policy and practice. Ideally such knowledge is expressed ...
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Conceptual and Methodological Accomplishments of ILSAs, Remaining Criticism and Limitations
This chapter summarizes conceptual, methodological, and empirical accomplishments and limitations of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) in education taking into account, among others, the lessons le...
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Measuring Equity Across the Nordic Education Systems—Conceptual and Methodological Choices as Implications for Educational Policies
Ever since international large-scale student assessments made it possible to rank countries according to their equitability, Nordic countries have topped these rankings. Nevertheless, a decline in equity has b...
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Can Teachers’ Instruction Increase Low-SES Students’ Motivation to Learn Mathematics?
Students’ motivation in mathematics has been shown to predict their achievement and whether they pursue a later career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). To sustain equity in educatio...
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Teachers’ Role in Enhancing Equity—A Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling with Mediated Moderation
Even though equity is an important aim for the Nordic countries, for many of these countries, the effect of a student’s home background on their achievement seems to increase over time. If the aim is to reduce...
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Open AccessInstructional quality: catalyst or pitfall in educational systems’ aim for high achievement and equity? An answer based on multilevel SEM analyses of TIMSS 2015 data in Flanders (Belgium), Germany, and Norway
In the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015, the educational systems from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), Germany, and Norway included scales capturing three dimensions of instru...
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Standard Setting in PISA and TIMSS and How These Procedures Can Be Used Nationally
In this chapter, we compare and discuss similarities and differences in the way the two large-scale international studies, PISA and TIMSS, formulate and set descriptions of standards. Although the studies use ...
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Final Remarks
This book contributes to educational policy, the field of educational effectiveness and practice. In this chapter, the findings from the five studies are summarized and discussed. After a comprehensive examina...
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The Impact of School Climate and Teacher Quality on Mathematics Achievement: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
The aim of the study was to investigate causal effects of aspects of teacher quality and school climate on mathematics achievement through use of country-level longitudinal data. By investigating within-countr...
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Conceptual Framework and Methodology of This Report
In this volume, five separate studies examine differing aspects of relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and learning outcomes across countries, taking into account context characteristics s...
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The Relations Among School Climate, Instructional Quality, and Achievement Motivation in Mathematics
Instructional quality is considered to be an important classroom variable, as it is significantly related to student achievement and motivation in mathematics. Existing studies in educational effectiveness fur...
