International large-scale assessments of student achievement such as International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Program for International Student Assessment that have come to prominence over the past 25 years owe a great deal in methodological terms to pioneering work by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Using TIMSS as an example, this article describes how a number of core techniques, such as matrix sampling, student population sampling, item response theory scaling with population modeling, and resampling methods for variance estimation, have been adapted and implemented in an international context and are fundamental to the international assessment effort. In addition to the methodological contributions of NAEP, this article illustrates how the large-scale international assessments go beyond measuring student achievement by representing important aspects of community, home, school, and classroom contexts in ways that can be used to address issues of importance to researchers and policymakers.

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TIMSS 2015：说明大规模国际评估的进展

国际上对学生成绩的大规模评估，例如国际数学和科学研究成就评估国际协会（TIMSS）和国际阅读素养研究的进展以及经济合作与发展组织的国际学生评估计划等在过去的25年中，这一重要成就在很大程度上归功于国家教育进步评估（NAEP）的开创性工作。本文以TIMSS为例，介绍了许多核心技术，例如矩阵抽样，学生总体抽样，带有总体建模的项目响应理论缩放以及方差估计的重采样方法，在国际范围内进行了调整和实施，对于国际评估工作至关重要。除了NAEP的方法论贡献外，本文还说明了大型国际评估如何通过代表社区，家庭，学校和教室环境的重要方面来衡量学生的学习成绩，从而可以用来解决对学生至关重要的问题。研究人员和决策者。