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PISA-BASED TEST FOR SCHOOLS TECHNICAL REPORT 2016 PISA-BASED TEST FOR SCHOOLS TECHNICAL REPORT 2016 This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Photo credits: © Khoa Vu/Flickr/Getty Images © Shutterstock/Kzenon © Simon Jarratt/Corbis © Stocklib Image Bank/No. 13883137 © OECD 2017 This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). For specific information regarding the scope and terms of the licence as well as possible commercial use of this work or the use of PISA data please consult Terms and Conditions on www.oecd.org. FOREWORD – 3 Foreword The OECD PISA-based Test for Schools assessment is geared for use by schools and networks of schools around the world to support research, international benchmarking and school improvement efforts. It collects information about 15-year-old students’ applied knowledge and competencies in reading, mathematics and science as well as their attitudes toward learning and school. PISA-based Test for Schools examines how students in the participating schools are prepared to meet the challenges of the future. The data collected by the assessment are an extremely valuable source of information for school principals, educators, parents and students. The methodology of the PISA-based Test for Schools is complex and demanding. The PISA-based Test for Schools Report describes those procedures and methodologies along with other features that enable the PISA-based Test for Schools to provide high-quality data to schools and local school administrations wanting to go further in understanding how their own individual schools perform compared with the world’s leading school systems. The descriptions are provided at a level that will enable replication of all implementation procedures. This Technical Report concerns the paper-and-pencil version of the PISA-based Test for Schools. The first edition of this report was drafted by Noémie Le Donné, Tue Halgreen and Kelly Makowiecki. The 2016 edition of the report was prepared by Javier Suárez-Álvarez with advice from Francesco Avvisati, Isabel Benitez, Richard Li, François Seyler and Tse Chi Sum, and under the supervision of Tue Halgreen. Administrative support for the 2016 edition was provided by Florence Bernard and Sophie Limoges co-ordinated production. PISA-BASED TEST FOR SCHOOLS TECHNICAL REPORT 2016 © OECD 2017 FOREWORD – 4 PISA-BASED TEST FOR SCHOOLS TECHNICAL REPORT 2016 © OECD 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS – 5 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 9 a. Features of the PISA-based Test for Schools .................................................................................. 9 b. Managing and implementing the PFS: Overview of roles and responsibilities ............................ 10 c. Structure of this report .................................................................................................................. 11 d. Additional information .................................................................................................................. 12 Chapter 1 Instrument design.................................................................................................................... 13 2. Test design, scope and development ................................................................................................ 13 a. Test design .................................................................................................................................... 13 b. Test scope ...................................................................................................................................... 14 c. Test development .......................................................................................................................... 15 d. Reporting PFS results on PISA scales .......................................................................................... 16 3. Context Questionnaires ..................................................................................................................... 17 a. Student Questionnaire ................................................................................................................... 17 b. School Questionnaire .................................................................................................................... 19 References ............................................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 2 Operations ................................................................................................................................ 23 4. Overview of the roles and responsibilities ........................................................................................ 23 a. School Coordinators ...................................................................................................................... 23 b. Test Administrators ....................................................................................................................... 24 5. Preparing for implementation ........................................................................................................... 25 a. Translation, adaptation and verification of the test and survey material....................................... 25 b. Field trial participation and outcomes ........................................................................................... 27 6. Field operations ................................................................................................................................ 28 a. School and student eligibility to participate in the survey ............................................................ 28 b. Sampling ....................................................................................................................................... 29 c. Packaging and shipping materials ................................................................................................. 32 d. Receipt of materials by the National Service Provider after testing ............................................. 32 e. Coding of the cognitive test and of the context questionnaires ..................................................... 33 f. Coding the test booklets ................................................................................................................ 33 g. Student questionnaire coding ........................................................................................................ 34 h. School questionnaire coding ......................................................................................................... 35 Chapter 3 Data Processing ....................................................................................................................... 37 7. Constructing the initial PFS database ............................................................................................... 37 a. Files in the initial PFS database .................................................................................................... 37 b. Records in the database ................................................................................................................. 39 c. Representing missing data ............................................................................................................ 40 d. Merging the data files ................................................................................................................... 41 8. Procedures for scaling cognitive data ............................................................................................... 41 PISA-BASED TEST FOR SCHOOLS TECHNICAL REPORT 2016 © OECD 2017 6 – TABLE OF CONTENTS a. The mixed coefficients multinomial logit model .......................................................................... 41 b. Application to PFS ........................................................................................................................ 44 9. Procedures for constructing contextual variables ............................................................................. 52 a. Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 52 b. Simple questionnaire variables ..................................................................................................... 53 c. Questionnaire scale indices ........................................................................................................... 54 d. Other complex questionnaire variables ........................................................................................