Pisa data analysis manual : SAS

Additional Titles: SAS
Published: Paris : OECD, [2009]
Copyright Date: ©2009
Edition: 2nd ed.
Physical Description: 466 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Additional Creators: Programme for International Student Assessment and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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Contents

The usefulness of PISA data for policy makers, researchers and experts on methodology -- Exploratory analysis procedures -- Sample weights -- The Rasch model -- Plausible values -- Analyses with plausible values -- Use of proficiency levels -- Analyses with school-level variables -- Standard error on a difference -- OECD total and OECD average -- Trends -- Studying the relationship between student performance and indicies derived from contextual questionnaires -- Multilevel analyses -- PISA and policy relevance : three examples of analyses -- SAS macro.

Summary

The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys collected data on students' performance in reading, mathematics and science, as well as contextual information on students' background, home characteristics and school factors which could influence performance. This publication includes detailed information on how to analyze the PISA data, enabling researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses. In addition to the inclusion of the necessary techniques, the manual also includes a detailed account of the PISA 2006 database. It also includes worked examples providing full syntax in SAS.--Publisher's description.

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ISBN

9789264056244 (pbk.)
9264056246 (pbk.)

Note

"Programme for International Student Assessment."
"This PISA data analysis manual is a revised edition of the PISA 2003 data analysis manual (OECD, 2005b)"--Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-314).

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