International Comparative Studies in Education Descriptions of Selected Large-Scale Assessments and Case Studies (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Education Indicators Project (INES)
Education Indicators Project (INES)
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The project went from the planning phase to the production phase following a conference on the project hosted by the government of Switzerland in 1991. The International Educational Indicators Project is an effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-Centre for Educational Research and Innovation to develop a system of indicators for cross-national comparisons in education for the use of policy makers, consumers, and "third parties" like private industry.
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Seventeen countries participated in Phase 2 of the INKS Project Network A - Educational Outcomes: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. International Comparative Studies - 30 Winter 1994-95
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This phase, scheduled to continue for five years, aims at establishing an organizational framework allowing for the regular production of a set of international education indicators. It includes continuation of ongoing conceptual work and regular publication of the calculated indicator set as Education at a International Comparative Studies - 31 Winter 1994-95
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Current long-term activities of the INKS Project include writing and editing chapters for several technical volumes that the project will publish in 1995, piloting data collections to measure crosscurricula competencies, and examining the use of national assessments for international comparisons. Each network is preparing books on their work to date and its implications for future international comparison work.
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Network A remains committed to calculating the indicators already developed, and the second edition of Education at a Glance presented an expanded set using science data from the International Assessment of Educational Progress study and indicators of reading literacy from the International Association of Educational Achievement Reading Literacy Study at two different age populations. Network A has also explored some new indicators of cognitive achievement, including attempts to measure the "value added" to student learning by schooling, and a measure of change over time.
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Network A remains cognizant of the limited nature of currently existing cross-national surveys of education outcomes, and supports efforts for OECD to take a more active role in defining its data needs. Network A is also pursuing the development of indicators of non-curriculum bound outcomes.
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The experience the INKS participants have gained in producing the second edition of Education at a Glance is an important resource for achieving a formal and standardized protocol for the regular production of international education indicators. This is one of the major long-term objectives of the INKS Project.
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. These consultants concluded that the first edition of Education at a Glance marks a major step in the development of international education statistics and indicators.
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EUROSTAT will carry out a feasibility study concerning the production of education indicators that are particularly suited to the needs of the European Community. Timetable 1987 The International Conference on Educational Indicators was convened in Washington, D.C.
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Making Education Count: Developing and Using International Indicators (summer 1993~. A reader bringing together OX chapters on the development and interpretation of the international education indicators.
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The publication of Education at a Glance has been facilitated by a special grant to INKS by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.
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Phillips, Gary W 1990 OECD/CERI/INES Project - International Education Indicators - Network A: Student Outcomes - Phase Two Working Meeting.
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1993 Technical Standards for International Indicator Data, OECD/CERI International Education Indicator Project. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Atlanta Georgia.
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