Intersectional approaches have become increasingly important for explaining educational
inequalities because they help to improve our understanding of how individual experiences …

Abstract Information and communication technology (ICT) literacy represents an essential
skill for adolescents to efficiently participate in a modern society. Previous research reported …

Mit der PISA-Studie werden grundlegende Kompetenzen von Fünfzehnjährigen gegen
Ende der Pflichtschulzeit erfasst. Ziel ist es, Aussagen darüber zu treffen, wie gut die …

This paper presents a non-parametric imputation technique, named random forest, from the
machine learning field. The random forest procedure has two main tuning parameters: the …

Despite the attention to the impact of school resources on student achievement, little is
known about how the school effect differs by students' socioeconomic backgrounds. Using …

In many disciplines of the social sciences, comparisons between a group mean and the total
mean is a common but also challenging task. As one solution to this statistical testing …

The role of emotions in learning settings such as schools has been widely acknowledged in
research and practice. Prior research predominantly follows a variable-centred approach to …

Decades of research have indicated that reading self-concept is an important predictor of
reading achievement. During this period, the population of emergent bilinguals has …

Large-scale assessments (LSAs) use Mislevy's “plausible value”(PV) approach to relate
student proficiency to noncognitive variables administered in a background questionnaire …

We illustrate how to perform a multivariate multilevel analysis in the complex setting of large-
scale assessment surveys, dealing with plausible values and accounting for the survey …