The IEA Bruce Choppin and Dick Wolf Memorial Awards
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) offers two awards to recognize high quality empirical research that makes use of IEA data.
Since 1958, the IEA has conducted almost 30 research studies of cross-national educational achievement in over 80 countries focusing on mathematics, science, and reading literacy, in addition to civic education, information technology in education, teacher education, and other topics. IEA studies focus on the output of educational systems — that is, the attitudes and educational achievements of students — and attempt to relate these outputs to those inputs that may have an effect on them. These inputs include school-, teacher-, and family-related variables. IEA studies have a strong empirical basis and quantitative orientation, and they rely mainly on cross-sectional and longitudinal non-experimental designs, with data collection through sample survey methods.
The intention of the Richard M. Wolf and Bruce H. Choppin Awards is to encourage and promote outstanding research conducted by postgraduate students and establish researchers that use IEA data.
Study data is coordinated by the IEA Data Processing Centre (DPC) in Hamburg, Germany, which has also produced specialized software for data analyses. This includes the on-line data analyzer (IEA-ODA) for calculating univariate and multivariate statistics, and the IEA International Database Analyzer (IEA IDB), an SPSS plug-in for more sophisticated analyses (See: IEA Studies Datasets and Data Analyzers).
The Awards Committee
Submissions for the Bruce Chopin and Dick Wolf Awards are adjudicated by the IEA Awards Committee whose members currently are:
- Dr Larry Hedges, IEA Technical Executive Group Expert
- Dr Seamus Hegarty, IEA Chairperson
- Chair: Dr David Robitaille, Chair of the IEA Publications and Editorial
Committee
Additional members will be added to the committee as required.
Complete submissions should be sent to the IEA Secretariat:
IEA Secretariat
Herengracht 487
1017 BT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
eMail: department(at)iea.nl
The deadline for submission is 31 March of each year.
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