Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...

Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Expertinnen und Experten zeigen in Originalbeiträgen, wie an verschiedenen Stellen von der Grundschule bis zur Wahl einer weiteren Ausbildung nach der Grundausbildung Bildungsverläufe beeinflusst werden, beispielsweise...

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...

This paper, commissioned by the National Center for Education Research, provides readers with an introduction to PN-RCTs and ways to design and analyze the results from them. This paper was written primarily for applied education researchers with introductory knowledge of quantitative impact...

International vergleichende Schulleistungsuntersuchungen wie das Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) der Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) oder die Internationale...

Wie sehen Weiterbildungsteilnehmende die Gesellschaft, und wie hängen Gesellschaftsbilder und Bildungsinteressen zusammen? Was verändert sich möglicherweise im Verlauf einer längeren Weiterbildung daran? Diesen Fragen sind die Autoren in einer umfangreichen empirischen Untersuchung...

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

We discuss fixed and random effects models in the context of educational research and set out the assumptions behind the two approaches. To illustrate the issues, we analyse the determinants of pupil achievement in primary school, using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and...

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...