A New Strategy for TIMSS Quality Assurance

• In Event: Large Scale Assessment

Abstract

International large-scale assessments have become higher stakes for governments’ education policies. This has led to an increased incentive to deviate from assessment guidelines and best practices in order to increase scores. This report describes strategies to identify unusual country-level results based on the estimated relationships between outcomes and background/contextual factors.

Authors

• Henry Braun, BOSTON COLLEGE

• Matthias von Davier, BOSTON COLLEGE

• Jihang Chen, BOSTON COLLEGE