TIMSS Advanced 2015 Organization

Initiator

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

IEA Amsterdam (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  • Initiator
  • Stakeholder relations
  • Overall support in coordinating TIMSS
  • Management of country participation
  • Verification of translations produced by participating countries
  • Coordination of quality control process

IEA Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

  • Monitoring and documentation of all sampling activities together with Statistics Canada
  • Processing and verification of data submitted by participants
  • Monitoring of TIMSS 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; Micheal 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, Canada)

  • 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

 

TIMSS Advanced 2015 National Research Coordinators (NRCs)

Implementation of all aspects of study in accordance with TIMSS Advanced 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

  • TIMSS 2015 Science and Mathematics Item Review Committee (SMIRC)
    • 19 members, nominated by participating entities:
      • 7 experts in mathematics and mathematics education
      • 12 experts in science and science education
    • Review of assessment framework (content and cognitive domains, topic areas, and objectives)
    • Development and review of achievement item
    • Scale anchoring of TIMSS International Benchmarks
  • TIMSS 2015 Questionnaire Item Review Committee (QIRC)
    • 7 members, all experienced experts
    • 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.
  • Further financial support was provided by Boston College.
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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)
    • Ipek Eraydin, Student Assisstant, IEA Hamburg
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