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Chapter 8:ICCS survey operations proceduresFalk Brese and Michael JungIntroductionSuccessful administration of the ICCS assessment depended heavily on the contributions ofthe study’s national research coordinators (NRCs) and national center staff. Administration ofthe assessment, along with the overall coordination and logistical aspects of ICCS in general,represented a significant challenge for each participating country.The ICCS international project team 1 therefore developed internationally standardized surveyoperations procedures to assist the NRCs and to aid the synchronization of activities. The teamdesigned these procedures to be flexible enough to simultaneously meet the needs of individualparticipants and the high quality of IEA survey standards. The team began by referring to theprocedures developed for IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) andTrends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and then tailoring these to suitthe ICCS requirements.All national centers received guidelines on survey operations procedures for each stage ofthe assessment, including contacting schools and sampling classes, preparing materials fordata collection, administering the assessment, scoring the assessment, and creating data files.National centers also received material setting out procedures for quality control, and they wereasked to complete online questionnaires that asked for feedback on survey activities.The role of the national research coordinatorsOne of the first steps that all countries or education systems 2 participating in ICCS took whenestablishing the study in their country was to appoint a NRC. The NRC acted as the contactperson for all those involved in ICCS within the country. He or she also represented thecountry at the international level.NRCs were in charge of the overall implementation of the study and were strongly involvedin national decisions regarding ICCS. They also, where necessary, and with guidance fromthe international project staff and national experts (i.e., people with expertise in civic andcitizenship education), implemented and adapted the internationally agreed-upon proceduresfor the national context.Documentation and softwareThe international project team sent the ICCS survey operations procedures to the NRCsin three units, each of which was accompanied by additional materials, including specialistmanuals and software packages. All of this material was organized and distributedchronologically according to the different stages of the study.The three units and their accompanying manuals and software packages comprised thefollowing:• Unit 1: School Contact and Material Preparation (ICCS International Study Center, 2008a).• Unit 2: Within-School Sampling and Test Administration (ICCS International Study Center,2008b).• Unit 3: Online Data Collection, Scoring, and Data Entry (ICCS International Study Center,2008c).1 This collaborative team was made up of staff from the ICCS International Study Center (ISC) at the Australian Council forEducational Research (ACER), the IEA Secretariat, the IEA Data Processing and Research Center (DPC, Hamburg), andStatistics Canada.2 The majority of the entities that participated in ICCS were countries. Some subunits of countries featuring a distincteducation system also participated in ICCS. An example is Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China. Forreasons of simplicity, the text refers to both participating countries and education systems as “countries.”89
• The School Sampling Manual (ICCS International Study Center, 2008d): this defined theICCS target populations and sampling goals and described the procedures to be usedwhen carrying out sampling of schools.• The School Coordinator Manual (ICCS International Study Center, 2008e): this describedthe role and responsibilities of the school coordinator. This person was the main contactperson within each participating school. His or her responsibilities included assisting thenational center in identifying classes, teachers, and students, supporting the administrationof the test and questionnaires, and keeping test materials secure and confidential whilethey were in the school.• The Test Administrator Manual (ICCS International Study Center, 2008f ): this described therole and responsibilities of the test administrator. His or her work included distributionof the student test instruments according to the student tracking forms, supervising thetesting sessions, ensuring the testing sessions took place within the specified times, andrecording student participation.• The International and National Quality Control Monitor Manuals (ICCS International StudyCenter, 2008g, 2008h): these provided quality control monitors (QCMs) with informationabout ICCS and described their role and responsibilities during the project. The manualsspecified the timelines, actions, and procedures that the QCMs needed to follow in orderto carry out the international and national quality assurance programs.• The Scoring Guides for Constructed-Response Items (ICCS International Study Center, 2008i):these provided detailed, explicit guidelines on how to score each constructed-responseitem.• The Windows ® Within-School Sampling Software (WinW3S, IEA DPC, 2008a): this enabledthe ICCS national centers to randomly select classes in each sampled school. The centersalso used the software to track school, teacher, and student information, prepare the surveytracking forms, and assign test instruments to students. The software furthermore providedcenters with the means to print labels for all the test booklets and questionnaires.• The Windows ® Data-Entry Manager Software (WinDEM, IEA DPC, 2008b): this provided atool for entering, editing, and verifying the ICCS data. Along with the software, countriesalso received codebooks describing the properties and the layout of the variables to beentered from each ICCS assessment instrument.• The IEA SurveySystem: this computer software enabled text passages on the paperquestionnaires to be transferred to online questionnaires and these online versions to thenbe delivered to respondents.In addition to its work preparing the software and manuals, the IEA DPC conducted a datamanagementseminar designed to train national center staff in the use of the WinDEM,WinW3S, and IEA SurveySystem software.Survey tracking formsICCS relied on six survey forms to sample classes, assign booklets and questionnaires, and trackthe participation status of students and teachers. These forms facilitated the data-collection anddata-verification process. They also provided information on how to compute sampling weightsand were used to evaluate the quality of the sampling process.Most of these forms were created automatically by the WinW3S software. The forms were thencompleted by schools and returned to the national centers. The six tracking and listing formsused in ICCS were:• The school tracking form: the IEA DPC sampling team sent this form to national centers andasked them to list the sampled schools and their replacements, provide the various school90 ICCS 2009 technical report
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Table 9.9: Numbers of NRC responses
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Table B.21.1: Allocation of student
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ReferencesAmadeo, J., Torney-Purta,
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Table 2.1: Test development process
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PanelingPaneling is a team-based ap
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Development of constructed-response
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ReferencesAdams, R. (2002). Scaling
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Teacher questionnaireIndividual tea
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Republic of KoreaTae-Jun KimKorean
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