4th IEA International Research Conference

Carolyn Barber, Judith Torney-Purta, and Katherine Fennelly  Adolescents' attitudes toward immigrants' rights and nationalism in 25 countries

Ireta Cekse, Andrejs Geske, and Andris Kangro  The influence of the education reforms in Latvia on the quality of civic education and democracy in the teaching/learning process

Catalina Covacevich  The impact of social desirability in the International Civics and Citizenship Education Study ICCS 2009 student questionnaires

Julian Fraillon, Wolfram Schulz, and John Ainley  Regional differential item function in the International Civics and Citizenship Education Study

Gary Homana, Robert Croninger, and Judith Torney-Purta  Adolescent civic engagement in Australia and the United States: The role of communities of practice

H.M. Naayer and M.M. Isac  European citizenship in Dutch secondary education: A comparison between different types of schools

Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, and Eva Van de gaer  Preparedness for active citizenship among lower secondary students in international comparison

Wolfram Schulz, Julian Fraillon, John Ainley, and Eva Van de gaer  Explaining differences in civic knowledge across 38 countries

Anu Toots and Tõnu Idnurm  Does the context matter? Attitudes towards multiculturalism amongst Russian students in Estonia, Latvia and Russian Federation

Judith Torney-Purta and Britt Wilkenfeld  Experience in civic education classrooms associated with students' achievement and engagement in three post-communist countries

Ting Zhang and Judith V. Torney-Purta  Assessing student's cognitive content and process skills in IEA CIVED: A cross-country analysis

Fabio Alivernini  A top-down evaluation of factors related to the largest performance gap in reading literacy across 25 countries

Fabio Alivernini, Fabio Lucidi, Sara Manganelli, and Bruno Losito  The interplay between school, teacher, family and student factors and their relationships to reading literacy in Italy

Daniel H. Caro and Jenny Lenkeit  An analytical approach to study socioeconomic gradients: Ten hypothesis tests in PIRLS 2006

Yuwen Chang and Jennwu Wang  Examining testlet effects on the PIRLS 2006 assessment

Pierre Foy, Michael O. Martin, and Ina V.S. Mullis  The limits of measurement: Problems in estimating reading achievement in PIRLS 2006 for low-performing countries

Elisabeth Frank and Monica Rosén  On the importance of a safe school and classroom climate for student achievement in reading literacy

Andrejs Geske and Antra Ozola  Differential item functioning in the aspect of gender differences in reading literacy

Sarah Howie  The relationship between early childhood backgrounds and reading achievement in low and high achieving countries in PIRLS 2006

Maciej Jakubowski and Artur Pokropek  Reading achievement growth across countries

Ann M. Kennedy and Kathleen L. Trong  Influence of the home literacy environment on reading motivation and reading comprehension

Elliot Lawes  The varying relationship between New Zealand students' attitude to reading and reading literacy achievement

Moosung Lee and Philip Hallinger  National contexts influencing principals' time use: Economic development, societal culture, and educational system

Caroline Liberg  A close reading of reading comprehension among Swedish students in Grade 4

Anne Milek, Tobias C. Stubbe, Ulrich Trautwein, Oliver Luedtke, and Kai Maaz  Reference group effects on teachers' school track recommendations: Results from PIRLS 2006 Germany

Andrea Netten  Cultural and linguistic diversity in reading literacy achievement: A multilevel approach

Laurence T. Ogle  Academic work ethics and student outcomes: Findings in a global perspective

Corinna Preuschoff, Michael O. Martin, and Ina V.S. Mullis  Exploring ways to enhance reporting TIMSS and PIRLS background data by developing an indicator of effective school environments for learning to read

Valérie Quittre and Christian Monseur  Exploring local item dependency for items clustered around common reading passage in PIRLS data

Monica Rosén and Rolf Strietholt  On the degree of comparability in trend studies as a function of differences in age and schooling

Gabrielle M. Stanco, Michael O. Martin, and Ina V.S. Mullis  Examining the components of linking error of trend estimation in PIRLS

Irmela Tarelli and Tobias C. Stubbe  Home literacy environment and reading achievement: A model for determining the relationship between socio-economic status, home literacy environment and reading achievement

Kathleen L. Trong  The relative risk-percentage equity index: Measuring equity in reading achievement across PIRLS 2006 countries

Surette van Staden and Sarah Howie  Reading between the lines: Contributing factors that affect Grade 5 student reading performance as measured across South Africa's 11 languages

Kajsa Yang Hansen and Ingrid Munck  Exploring the measurement profiles of socioeconomic background and their differences in reading achievement: A two-level latent class analysis

Ruth Zuzovsky  Instructional variables involved in problems associated with diglossia in Arabic speaking schools in Israel: PIRLS 2006 findings

Falk Brese and Plamen Mirazchiyski  Measuring students' family background in large-scale education studies

Jan-Eric Gustafsson  Knowledge and skills in Swedish comprehensive school during 40 years: A reassessment of the evidence based on the IEA studies

Ieva Johansone  Achievement equity by urbanization in Latvia's primary education: Analysis of PIRLS 2006 and TIMSS 2007 data

Leslie Rutkowski  The impact of missing at random data on subgroup estimation

Ruth Zuzovsky, David Steinberg, and Zipi Libman  Achievement data in IEA studies and Simpson's Paradox

John Ainley  Influences on the implementation of ICT in teaching in Australia

Alona Forkosh Baruch, Rafi Nachmias, and David Mioduser  ICT in Hebrew speaking and Arabic speaking schools in Israel: Findings from SITES 2006

J. Enrique Hinostroza and Mario Brun  ICT in education policy and practice in Chile: Does it correlate?

Sigrid Blömeke, Ute Suhl, and Richard T. Houang  Diagnosing specific strengths and weaknesses of teacher education by using different approaches to modeling multidimensionality

María C. Cañadas, Pedro Gómez, and Luis Rico  Structure of primary mathematics teacher education programs in Spain

Sabine Meinck and Jean Dumais  Sampling design for the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M): Challenges, solutions, restrictions

Yasin Afana and Petra Lietz  The relationship between school resources and mathematics achievement at Grade 8: A comparison of Israeli and Palestinian schools in TIMSS 2007

Fabio Alivernini, Laura Palmerio, Emanuela Vinci, and Ines Di Leo  An analysis of factors affecting pupils' science achievement in Italy

Maria Åström  Comparison of student positive attitudes towards science (PATS) with students' results in Australia, England, Norway and Sweden

Josef Basl and Vladislav Tomášek  Why has average achievement in mathematics in the Czech Republic decreased since 1995 according to TIMSS results?

Kok Leong Boey and Jaguthsing Dindyal  Singapore Grade 8 students' performance in science by gender in TIMSS 2007

Ralph Carstens and Dirk Hastedt  The effect of not using plausible values when they should be: An illustration using TIMSS 2007 Grade 8 mathematics data

Christina Cliffordson and Jan-Eric Gustafsson  Effects of schooling and age on performance in mathematics and science: A between-grade regression discontinuity design with instrumental variables applied to Swedish TIMSS 1995 data

Dana V. Diaconu  Learning more science in single-sex or in coeducational schools? Findings from Hong Kong, SAR and New Zealand from TIMSS 1995, 1999, and 2003

M. Drent, M.R.M. Meelissen, and F.M. van der Kleij  The contribution of TIMSS to theories of educational effectiveness: A systematic review of the literature

Andrejs Geske and Rita Geske  Content of textbooks: One of the factors affecting fourth-grader science achievements in TIMSS

Liv Sissel Grønmo and Jan-Eric Gustafsson  Student achievement in mathematics in Norway and Sweden as evidenced by TIMSS

Åse Hansson and Jan-Eric Gustafsson  Measurement invariance of socioeconomic status across migrational background

Dirk Hastedt  Changing populations in TIMSS cycles: An alternative approach to reporting trends

Noor Azina Ismail and Halimah Awang  Analyzing the relationship between self-confidence in mathematics and students' characteristics using multinomial logistic regression

Tsung-Hau Jen, Hak-Ping Tam, and Margaret Wu  An estimation of the design effect for the two-stage stratified cluster sampling design

Masoud Kabiri and Elham Shavand Gharbi  Comparing high with low science performance students in some variables of fourth grader in Iran

Ali Reza Kiamanesh and Maryam Mohsenpour  Trends in factors affecting Iranian eighth graders' mathematics achievement by gender (TIMSS 1999, 2003 & 2007)

David C. Miller, Christina Scheller, and Karly Sarita Ford  A cross-national analysis of the educational expectations of eighth-grade boys and girls

Jana Straková  Trends in differentiation of student achievement and learning conditions in the Czech compulsory education: Findings from TIMSS

Tobias C. Stubbe and Magdalena Buddeberg  Poverty and school achievement: An additional indicator for socio-economic status in school achievement studies

Linda Sturman and Yin Lin  TIMSS 2007 secondary analysis: A method for investigating an attainment gap

Marie Wiberg and Ewa Andersson  School-effectiveness in mathematics in Sweden compared with countries in Europe and Asia-Pacific

Alka Arora  Relationship among curriculum coverage, teacher preparedness, and student achievement in TIMSS Advanced 2008

Hanna Eklöf  Student motivation and effort in the Swedish TIMSS Advanced field study

Barbara Japelj Pavešić  Where are the best mathematics students hiding in Slovenia?

Ana Kozina, Mojca Rožman, Tina Vršnik Perše, and Tina Rutar Leban  The school climate as a predictor of the achievement in TIMSS Advanced study: A students', teachers' and principals' perspective

Peter Nyström and Annika Kjellsson Lind  Alignment between TIMSS Advanced and the Swedish national curriculum

Peter Nyström and Annika Kjellsson Lind  Textbook based analysis of TIMSS Advanced: Item familiarity

Ida Friestad Pedersen and Liv Sissel Grønmo  Norwegian upper secondary school students' performance in solving algebraic inequalities