PIRLS 2016 Organization

Initiator

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) - Dirk Hastedt, Executive Director

IEA Secretariat (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - now: IEA Amsterdam

  • Initiator
  • Stakeholder relations
  • Overall support in coordinating PIRLS
  • Management of country participation
  • Verification of translations produced by participating countries
  • Coordination of school visits by IQCM

IEA Data Processing and Research Center (Hamburg, Germany) - now: IEA Hamburg

  • Monitoring and documentation of sampling activities together with Statistics Canada
  • Processing and verification of data submitted by participants
  • Monitoring of PIRLS database to ensure accuracy and consistency within and across countries
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Study director(s)

TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Lynch School of Education, Boston College - Ina V.S. Mullis, Executive Director; Michael O. Martin, Executive Director

  • Overall direction
  • Responsible for
    • Design
    • Management
    • Implementation
    • Development
    • Operations
    • Analysis
    • Reporting
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Institutions and their responsibilities

Statistics Canada (Ottawa)

  • School and student sampling activities

 

Educational Testing Service (Princeton, New Jersey, USA)

  • Consulting on psychometric methodology
  • Provision of software for scaling achievement data
  • Replication of achievement scaling for quality assurance

 

National Research Coordinators (NRCs)

Implementation of all aspects of the study in their respective countries in accordance with PIRLS guidelines and procedures, including:

  • Communicating with study partners
  • Contributing to item development
  • Conducting classroom sampling, data collection, and all scoring and data entry tasks.

 

Expert Committees

  • PIRLS 2016 Reading Development Group (RDG)
    • Providing expert advice about the development of the PIRLS 2016 reading assessment:
      • Updating the assessment framework
      • Test development – selecting passages and assisting with item development for PIRLS and PIRLS Literacy
      • Participation in scale anchoring of PIRLS International Benchmarks
  • PIRLS 2016 Questionnaire Development Group (QDG)
    • Participation in the development of the contextual framework and background questionnaires
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Contact

IEA

Keizersgracht 311

1016 EE Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 625 3625

Fax: +31 20 420 7136

E-mail: secretariat@iea.nl

URL: http://www.iea.nl

 

TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center

Boston College

140 Commonwealth Ave.

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

USA

Tel: +1 617 552 1600

Fax: +1 617 552 1203

E-mail: timssandpirls@bc.edu

URL: http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/index.html

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Funding
  • The study was predominantly funded by fees from the participating countries. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the US Department of Education was a major funding partner, providing funding under contract no. ED08C00117.
  • Further financial support was provided by:
    • Boston College
    • The National Foundation for Educational Research in the UK.
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Sources
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Editor(s) and author(s) of study-related gateway pages
  • Editors
    • Martin Hooper, Assistant Research Director, TIMSS and PIRLS Questionnaire Development and Policy Studies, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College
    • Bethany Fishbein, Research Specialist, TIMSS Science, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College
    • Milena Taneva, Senior Research Analyst, Project Co-Manager, TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced Data Processing, IEA Hamburg
    • Sebastian Meyer, Research Analyst, Deputy Project Manager, TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced Data Processing, IEA Hamburg
    • Duygu Savaşcı, Research Analyst, Sampling Expert, IEA Hamburg
  • Author (based on study documents)
    • Zarrinigor Nozimova, Student Assistant, IEA Hamburg
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