The Programme for International Student Assessment, Electronic Reading Assessment 2009
World, 2009
Identification
WLD_2009_PISA-ERA_v01_M
The Programme for International Student Assessment, Electronic Reading Assessment 2009
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| World | WLD |
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international study that assesses how well countries are preparing their 15-year-old students to meet real-life opportunities and challenges. PISA assesses three key areas: reading, mathematical and scientific literacy. Students participating in PISA to date have all responded to print (paper)-based assessments. In 2009 countries were offered the option of assessing some of the participating students in reading using a computer-based assessment - the Electronic Reading Assessment (ERA). The ERA is a new and innovative component of PISA that acknowledges the increasing relevance of electronic text and recognises its importance as a feature of reading.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- 15 year old students
Coverage
Altogether 19 countries and economies took part in the ERA component of PISA 2009. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries that participated in the ERA were Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, France, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden. The partner countries and economies that took part were Colombia, Hong Kong-China and Macao-China.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
| Name |
|---|
| Australian Council for Educational Research |
| National Institute for Educational Measurement (Netherlands) |
| Unité d’analyse des systèmes et pratiques d’enseignement (Belgium) |
| cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control (Belgium) |
| Deutches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung |
| Westat (USA) |
| Educational Testing Service (USA) |
| National Institute for Educational Policy Research (Japan) |
Sampling
The international research consortium randomly selected the schools for each country and customised software was then used in individual countries to randomly select students within schools. Around 36,500 15-year-old students from participating countries and economies took part in this assessment.
Survey instrument
Those students who took part in the ERA were given a 10 minute practice session and then asked to complete a 40 minute computer-based test. The texts used in this test were hypertexts. Hypertexts are where the user has navigation tools and features that allow them to move through pages of text freely in numerous possible ways.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 2009 |
Background information is gathered in each PISA cycle from questionnaires completed by students and school principals. Of particular relevance to the ERA, 45 countries (including 17 of the countries that also participated in the ERA) collected information on students' knowledge about and use of information and communication technology (ICT). This covered such things as students' familiarity with computers, the internet and various types of software, and tasks that can be carried out electronically. The information gathered from these questionnaires enables the relationship between contextual factors and achievement to be examined.
Data Access
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Programme for International Student Assessment, Electronic Reading Assessment (PISA ERA) 2009. Ref. WLD_2009_PISA_ERA_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| OECD PISA | edu.pisa@oecd.org | http://www.oecd.org/pisa/home/ |
Metadata production
DDI_WLD_2009_PISA-ERA_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2014-07-21
Metadata version
Version 01 (July 2014)