Assessment of Reading in International Studies

<p>This book brings together contributions from different scholarly contexts that address a diverse range of focused topics as well as empirical and conceptual perspectives on research with international studies.</p><p></p><p>Some chapters focus on technical aspects exploring opportunities for drawing causal inferences from the data and investigating biases originating in distributional scale properties. Others are of a more conceptual nature addressing changes in the relevance of socio-economic indicators across time and countries examining the exposure of mother-tongue and English instruction on performance and investigating the effects of test construction on gender difference.</p><p></p><p>The discussion takes a much-needed meta-perspective on the usefulness of international large-scale assessments for educational research and allows reflection upon possibilities and opportunities for their improvement. This book was originally published as a special issue of <em>Assessment in Education</em>.</p>