Chapter 1. The Programme for International Student Assessment: An Overview
Reader's Guide
SECTION ONE: INSTRUMENT DESIGN
Chapter 2. Test Design and Test Development
Chapter 3. Student and School Questionnaire Development
SECTION TWO: OPERATIONS
Chapter 4. Sample Design
Chapter 5. Translation and Cultural Appropriateness of the Test and Survey Material
Chapter 6. Field Operations
Chapter 7. Quality Monitoring
SECTION THREE: DATA PROCESSING
Chapter 8. Survey Weighting and the Calculation of Sampling Variance
Chapter 9. Scaling PISA Cognitive Data
Chapter 10. Coding and Marker Reliability Studies
Chapter 11. Data Cleaning Procedures
SECTION FOUR: QUALITY INDICATORS AND OUTCOMES
Chapter 12. Sampling Outcomes
Chapter 13. Scaling Outcomes
Chapter 14. Outcomes of Marker Reliability Studies
Chapter 15. Data Adjudication
SECTION FIVE: SCALE CONSTRUCTION AND DATA PRODUCTS
Chapter 16.Proficiency Scales Construction
Chapter 17. Constructing and Validating the Questionnaire Indices
Chapter 18. International Database
Appendix 1. Summary of PISA Reading Literacy Terms
Appendix 2. Summary of PISA Mathematical Literacy Terms
Appendix 3. Summary of PISA Scientific Literacy Terms
Appendix 4. The Validity Studies of Occupation and Socio-Economic Status
Appendix 5. The Main Findings from Quality Monitoring of the PISA 2000 Main Study
Appendix 6. Order Effects Figures
Appendix 7. PISA 2000 Expert Group Membership and Consortium Staff
Appendix 8. Contrast Coding for PISA 2000 Conditioning Variables
Appendix 9. Sampling Forms
Appendix 10. Student Listing Form
Appendix 11. Student Tracking Form
Appendix 12. Adjustment to BRR for Strata with Odd Numbers of Primary Sampling Units