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International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement working to research, understand & improve education worldwide #TIMSS #PIRLS #ICILS #ICCS #LANA https://www.iea.nl/
🧭 IEA's latest Compass Brief uses data collected from 30+ countries in ICILS 2023 to dig into a finding that is ringing alarm bells: relatively few students can complete fundamental tasks related to evaluating digital information online.
🔗 Digital Natives—Reality or Myth?: https://ow.ly/S9xG50YmV4v
📢 IEA invites proposals for a new volume in the IEA Research for Education series using data from the TIMSS 2023 longitudinal study. We're excited to see how this unique database opens exciting avenues for secondary analysis.
Funding: Up to €40,000
Deadline: 31 March
🔗: https://ow.ly/PYsu50YmibZ
🔎 Curious about research & education?
Keep an eye on the IERI journal 'Large-scale Assessments in Education', an open-access publication contributing to the science of large-scale education assessments globally.
14 brand new papers have been released already in 2026!
🔗 https://ow.ly/GMLw50YlPTb
🚨 In case you missed it!
The TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal International Database (IDB) is now available!
It is open access and includes achievement and contextual data for students assessed in the fifth and ninth grades.
🔗 Read more and access here: https://timss2023.org/longitudinal/data/
🌐 Last weekend was International #MotherLanguageDay.
Multilingual societies preserve culture through language. Vol. 1 of IEA’s Research for Educators explores specific challenges of teaching reading comprehension in multilingual classrooms.
🔗 https://ow.ly/zjFv50Yk8vi
With preparations underway for the #IEAIRC2027 in Bangkok, it feels like the perfect moment to look back at the incredible IRC 2025 in Rome.
Take a moment to relive it here👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCiezEL97g&t=10s
🔦 Did you know? The TIMSS Insights series explores key education research topics using TIMSS maths & science data.
📘 The latest report from 2025 on school climate health introduces a new framework to understand how social systems in schools shape student outcomes.
🔗: www.iea.nl/publications...
🚨 New ICILS Compass Brief out today: 'Digital Natives—Reality or Myth?'
🔎 The realities of how meaningfully growing up surrounded by digital technology has shaped students’ Computer and Information Literacy skills might surprise you.
🧭 Have a read here: https://ow.ly/XLjl50Yf2I7
🚀 With today’s launch of the TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal international database, IEA invites proposals for a new open-access volume of our Research for Education series. Selected authors receive up to €40,000.
➡️ Details: https://ow.ly/mkh050Yelqo
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re spotlighting the #IEACompassBrief: Early learning activities matter for girls’ and boys’ math & science achievement.
See how simple home activities are linked to stronger outcomes (#TIMSS2019) ➡️ https://ow.ly/glQa50YcNNX
📢 IEA is hiring in Hamburg & Amsterdam!
From SQL Expert in the coding unit to project staff for German national education studies, there might be something here for you!
Explore all open positions 👉 https://www.iea.nl/about/opportunities
🌍 IEA studies help strengthen education by deepening our understanding of how education systems work. Curious about how IEA studies work? This short 2-minute video breaks it all down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTAr5HX3W-Q
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💡Supporting an open classroom environment is one way that teachers can encourage student's civic knowledge and their interest in civics
➡️ Check out our Teacher Snippet based on data from ICCS that suggests strategies for achieving such an open classroom climate: https://ow.ly/oooT50Ya7js
✨ Applications are open for the 2026 IEA Research Awards!
🏆 Choppin Award: outstanding master’s & PhD research using IEA data
🏆 Wolf Award: published work analysing IEA studies
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026
🔗 https://ow.ly/ZZqw50Y9k95
🤔 How do large-scale education assessments shape policy?
🧭 This IEA Compass Brief uses Ireland as a case study, showing how TIMSS & PIRLS highlighted challenges—and helped drive change.
📑 https://ow.ly/Ftr850Y8O1Q
🎧 https://ow.ly/QfTq50Y8O1S
Educational Research Centre
📣 IEA & the European Commission launch a new Research & Policy Grant for early-career researchers!
💡 €20,000 for 12 months to support policy-relevant research using IEA data (TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS).
📅 Apply by 31 March 2026👉 https://lnkd.in/dkUr4eTM
IEA and the European Commission have launched a new Research & Policy Grant for early career researchers, supporting policy-relevant studies using IEA data (TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS).
💶 €20,000 | 12 months
📅 Apply by 31 March 2026
🔗 More info: https://ow.ly/lYCT50Y86LF
⏰ The WERA Visiting Researcher Award 2026 is open!
The award offers researchers in education the opportunity to spend six to eight weeks in Hamburg in 2026, hosted jointly by IEA Hamburg and the University of Hamburg.
Deadline: 20 March 2026.
👉 Read more: https://ow.ly/8uib50Y7xzg
Dana Kelly (Director of LaNA) and Lydia Malley (Deputy Director of ICILS) at the AIR offices in Washington DC
📸 Dana Kelly (Director LaNA) and Lydia Malley (Deputy Director ICILS) wrapping up a productive week in Washington DC.
🙌 They met with Matthew Soldner (Acting NCES Commissioner) Enis Dogan (IEA GA member for the US), and AIR and RTI about partnering to encourage state participation in ILSAs.
💭 Meaningful work, great team, and on the canal belt in Amsterdam (yes, that's our office in the picture...)
Sounds good? This might be the place for you!
📢 We’re hiring a Communications Officer!
👉 https://ow.ly/mNaJ50Y5Oaa
📅 Apply by 16 Feb
💫 Repost to spread the word
➡️ Keeping Updated with ICILS, Keeping Updated with the Digital World
🖱️ What's the latest on ICILS 2028? AI, digital wellbeing and more... read the news here: https://ow.ly/XoHQ50Y4Zg2
⏰ Working on a submission for the special issue of the Large-scale Assessments in Education Journal - 'From Global Comparisons to Local Insights: Linking International Large-Scale Assessments with National Administrative Data'?
📅 Deadline coming soon: 31 January!
Details: https://t.co/ceIIWr0DXW
Last week, Alec Kennedy from the IEA’s Research and Analysis unit had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the LESE (Lisbon Economics and Statistics of Education) Conference.🌍
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🔦 Saturday was UNESCO's 2026 International Day of Education. This year's theme was 'The power of youth in co-creating education'.
Read the full report that was released to mark the day here: www.unesco.org/gem-report/e...
#EducationDay
🗣️"In education systems that participated in ICCS 2022, 40% of students reported ‘taking part in decision making about how the school is run’ but the share ranged from 22% in Croatia to 62% in Norway and 63% in Sweden."
➡️from 'UNESCO 2026 Youth Report: Lead with youth'
🗣️ ICCS 2022 reveals a gender gap in civic knowledge: in most countries, boys score lower than girls.
Our latest IEA Compass Brief explains why this matters and what can be done.
🔗 https://www.iea.nl/publications/series-journals/iea-compass-briefs-education-series/october-2025-international-gender
📕 'Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Inequality' is Vol. 15 of IEA's Research for Education series.
🔎 It uses IEA data to examine the relationship between socioeconomic segregation between classrooms and student outcomes.
Available to download freely here: https://ow.ly/S3SA50Y0EYp
👏 Congratulations to Prof. Gabriel Nagy on starting his IEA-supported professorship at the University of Hamburg! Building on decades of collaboration, the role strengthens joint research in international assessments and longitudinal studies. 🔎
https://online.flippingbook.com/view/590040492/78/
⏰ Are you planning to make a submission to present at ECER 2026?
The deadline is coming up fast: 31 January! This year's conference is taking place in Tampere, Finland.
🔎 Find all the details on submissions here: https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2026-tampere/submission
📢 COMPIE 2026 takes place in Paris, 24–26 June, organized by the EC’s Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation.
Paper submissions are open until 28 Feb, covering policy impact evaluation using counterfactual methods. 🔎
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/event/compie-2026-conference_en