IELS 2018 Organization
Study director(s)
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) - Maurice Walker, International Project Director
- Project management
- Assessment development
- Contextual questionnaire development
- Delivery platform development
- Construction of psychometric scales and indices for cognitive, social-emotional, and contextual data
- Analysis of result and production of statistical tables
Institutions and their responsibilities
IEA
- Field operations
- Sample design and selection, survey weighting
- International Quality Assurance Monitoring
- Data management
- International database construction
cApStAn
- Linguistic quality assurance
Expert groups
- Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
- Measurement Advisory Group (MAG)
Provided input to
- Assessment framework for the study
- Instrument development for the assessments and contextual information
- Analysis of findings
National Project Managers (NPMs)
- Supporting, promoting, and organizing the study within each participant country
- Gathering sample information
- Providing feedback on the assessment development
- Obtaining and configuring delivery hardware
- Training center/school coordinators and study administrators
- Recruiting education centers/schools, teachers, and parents to participate
- Managing their own data submission
- Developing their own national report
- Other communications
Contact
OECD Early Childhood and Schools
2 rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
E-mail: earlylearning@oecd.org
Funding
The study was funded predominantly by the participating countries.
Sources