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  1. Article

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    The potential of international large-scale assessments for meta-analyses in education

    Meta-analyses and international large-scale assessments (ILSA) are key sources for informing educational policy, research, and practice. While many critical research questions could be addressed by drawing evi...

    Ronny Scherer, Fazilat Siddiq, Trude Nilsen in Large-scale Assessments in Education (2024)

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    Trend analyses of TIMSS 2015 and 2019: school factors related to declining performance in mathematics

    Gaining knowledge of what contextual factors may contribute to changes in student achievement across cycles of international large-scale assessments (ILSA), is important for educational policy and practice. Ad...

    Trude Nilsen, Hege Kaarstein, Anne-Catherine Lehre in Large-scale Assessments in Education (2022)

  3. Article

    Open Access

    Assessing the evidence for the comparability of socioeconomic status between students with and without immigrant background in Norway and Sweden

    The prerequisite for meaningful comparisons of educational inequality indicators across immigration status is the comparability of socioeconomic status (SES) measures. The Programme for International Student A...

    Oleksandra Mittal, Ronny Scherer, Trude Nilsen in Large-scale Assessments in Education (2022)

  4. Article

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    Instructional 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...

    Kim Bellens, Jan Van Damme, Wim Van Den Noortgate in Large-scale Assessments in Education (2019)

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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 ...

    Rolf Vegar Olsen, Trude Nilsen in Standard Setting in Education (2017)

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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...

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Trude Nilsen in Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and… (2016)

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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...

    Jan Eric Gustafsson, Trude Nilsen in Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and… (2016)

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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...

    Trude Nilsen, Jan-Eric Gustafsson in Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and… (2016)

  10. Chapter

    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...

    Ronny Scherer, Trude Nilsen in Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes (2016)