The Teacher Snippet "Promoting Democracy at School: Strategies to Foster Democratic Learning Environments in Classrooms" is now also available in Italian! 📖 Read it in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Italian here: https://ow.ly/cvNM50ZwroV

🧪 Two new publications from the IEA R&D Fund fourth call are now available! 1️⃣ 'An AI-Driven Approach to TIMSS Item Verification & Alignment' 🔗 www.iea.nl/publications... 2️⃣ 'Two-Step Imputation Combining IRT & Deep-Learning Methods for Large-Scale Survey Assessments' 🔗 www.iea.nl/publications...

📸 IEA being represented at JSM 2026 by Dr. Diego Cortes. The JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. Yesterday, Diego presented 'A framework for estimating and reporting participation rates in large-scale educational assessments with complex sampling designs'.

❓Education researchers - do you know about the ILSA Gateway? It's an open-access platform providing a single entry point to major international large-scale assessments in education, including those from CONFEMEN, the IDB, IEA, OECD, UNESCO & the World Bank. 🔗Access here: https://ilsa-gateway.org

New from the Large-scale Assessments in Education journal: 'Student achievement and self-confidence in mathematics and science: evidence from TIMSS 2023' 🔎Do underachieving students systematically overestimate their abilities? 🔗: https://ow.ly/CWpO50ZuAkn

Student achievement and self-confidence in mathematics and science: evidence from TIMSS 2023 | Large-scale Assessments in Education | Springer Nature Link

This paper examines whether underachieving students systematically overestimate their abilities and explores how confidence patterns vary across different contexts. Drawing on grade eight mathematics and science data from TIMSS 2023, we fit two-level regression models by country. Findings challenge the “unskilled and unaware” narrative: low-performing students typically reported muted, stable confidence, while high performers demonstrated strong positive achievement-confidence associations. Results align more with calibration theory and the Reciprocal Effects Model, which emphasize...

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🌍 On the IRC 2025 in Rome we were “Researching Education for Sustainable Futures”, now it's time for the next chapter. Join us in Bangkok for #IEAIRC2027 to explore the theme: Understanding Change, Advancing Education. 🎥 Throwback to the #IEAIRC2025: https://ow.ly/6Kbb50Zui9I

IEA IRC 2025 – Recap Video

The 11th IEA International Research Conference (IEA IRC) took place...

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🆕With new interactive tables you can now more easily explore selected results from ICILS 2023 on both computer and information literacy (CIL) and computational thinking (CT). 🔎 Take a look: https://www.iea.nl/icils-2023-selected-results

📊 Are you a researcher? Do you work with IEA data? This is your chance to share your work with the international education research community! 📢 Submissions for the #IEAIRC2027 are now open➡️ https://www.iea.nl/news-events/news/iea-irc-2027-call-submissions-now-open

🤝At the release of Vol 18 of IEA's Research for Education—‘Educating Pupils for Environmental Sustainability in Europe’—co-editor Branislav Ranđelović discussed the importance of international collaboration for education systems. https://ow.ly/OzCv50ZsfhF 📕Download Vol18: https://ow.ly/jXU550ZsfhE

👋 Are you an education researcher looking to strengthen your analytical skills and gain hands-on experience with datasets from major international studies? IERI will be hosting a three-day Academy focused on conducting secondary analysis using ILSA databases: https://ow.ly/x8Hz50ZrgkL

Are you attending the #IMPS2026 Conference in Seoul, South Korea? 🌏 Visit the IEA booth in Grand Ballroom 1 to discover and pick up copies of our latest publications! ➡️ Also, don’t miss the presentation, on 21 July at 14:15, “Reconsidering Measurement Invariance in ICCS: A Robust Scaling Approach”.

This week, IEA is attending #AFRICAFLEX2026 in Lilongwe, Malawi! 🌍 Policymakers, development partners, implementers, & other education actors have gathered to accelerate the scaling of evidence-based interventions and share initiatives that help teachers and learners improve foundational learning.

📸 IEA's Paulína Koršňáková and Colm Brennan are in Paris this week attending the UNESCO 2026 Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development, and taking the opportunity to meet with colleagues on continued collaboration between UNESCO and IEA.

❓ Curious about what kind of questions students answer as part of the LaNA reading and mathematics assessments? The LaNA Assessment Summary has been updated to include sample items. Find them in the appendix➡️ https://ow.ly/aqCP50ZoeWR

🗣️ 'When teachers do more participatory activities with students, they're more likely to be highly engaged with sustainability related issues' - IEA's Tahira Ali Qadri on findings from 'Educating Pupils for Environmental Sustainability in Europe'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vBq... #IDSSD

The Role of Students' Environments in Shaping Sustainability Competences

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🪴 UNESCO is hosting the first Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024–2033) this week. As part of the conference, they have launched the 'Voices of the Science Decade' campaign to celebrate ideas and aspirations driving the #ScienceDecade forward.

📘 The latest volume of the IEA Research for Educators book series - Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning - was released together with a new Teacher Snippet and a collection of DIY classroom activities.

💡 From 15-17 September, IERI (International Education Research Institute) will host a three-day Academy in Hamburg focused on conducting secondary analysis using international large-scale assessment databases, including TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS & PISA. 🔗 Find out more: https://ow.ly/1A5U50ZmP0y

📢 The call for submissions for the #IEAIRC2027 is now open! Submit proposals for papers, symposia, or posters by 15 Nov 2026 (11:59 pm CET). Join us in Bangkok, Thailand, 23–25 June 2027. Find more information here 👉 https://ow.ly/kh1850ZmnbP

🌍✈️ In the next few months, you will find IEA at: ➡️ FLEX – Malawi ➡️ IMPS – South Korea ➡️ ECER – Finland (European Educational Research Association - EERA) ➡️ AEAA-Africa Conference – Tanzania ➡️ BERA Conference – UK Will you be attending any of these conferences? Comment where we'll see you!👋

📸 Andrea Netten, Lauren Musu, and Miguel Zea recently visited IEA's translation verification partner, Comms Multilingual. 🤝 Discussions focused on lessons from the ICCS 2027 field trial translation verification & planning for next year's main study. Thanks for the warm welcome & great discussions!

Nos honra acompañar a @ieaeducation.bsky.social para el lanzamiento de 'Experimentar la democracia en el aula: crear entornos de aprendizaje democráticos para promover la educación cívica'. ¡Un recurso fantástico para docentes de todo el mundo! ➡️ https://eiie.io/4vbinnc

🧪 IEA's R&D Call 6 is open for submissions! 🔎 Funding for proposals aimed at improving and advancing the science & methodology of IEA studies is generally based on the proposed project’s needs: • tier 1: up to 55,000 Euro • tier 2: between 55,000 and 110,000 Euro 🔗 https://ow.ly/TVK650Z9icM

IEA Research and Development Call 6 is Open | IEA.nl

IEA's R&D (Research and Development) sixth call is now open. IEA invites research proposals aimed at improving and advancing the science and methodology of IEA studies, ensuring that they remain at the forefront of international large-scale assessments in education. The R&D program welcomes proposal…

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La démocratie s'apprend dans nos salles de classe. Nous sommes honoré∙e∙s de nous joindre à @ieaeducation.bsky.social pour le lancement de « Promouvoir la démocratie à l’école: créer des environnements d'apprentissage démocratiques pour favoriser l'éducation civique ». ➡️ https://eiie.io/4oX7KCS

💫 The 1st research using TIMSS Longitudinal data is here! Analyzing students' maths learning over one school year, the new study found that, after accounting for prior achievement, gender & socioeconomic effects on learning growth were generally small & inconsistent. 🔗: https://ow.ly/UPse50Zk0CE

🗣️'Are young people truly digital natives, or simply frequent users of technology?' 🔗 Check out our Compass Brief from earlier this year that uses ICILS data to investigate & assess whether growing up with digital technologies shapes students’ skills & learning in meaningful ways: ow.ly/8rw250ZjCrj

Democracy is modelled in our classrooms. We are honoured to join @ieaeducation.bsky.social for the launch of 'Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning'. A fantastic resource for teachers everywhere! ➡️ https://eiie.io/4gNmaU7

IERI journal 'Large-scale Assessments in Education' is an open-access publication. Last year, over 35 articles were published... And over 30 brand new papers have been released already in 2026! Check it out here➡️ https://link.springer.com/journal/40536/articles

📢 Interested in working with international large-scale assessment data? The IERI Autumn Academy offers hands-on training for researchers and analysts looking to strengthen their skills using newly released datasets➡️ https://meetinghand.com/e/ieri-autumn-academy-2026/

👋 Reminder: the call for submissions for the IEA International Research Conference 2027 is open! ➡️ We invite proposals for individual papers, symposia, or posters that align with your research interests. 🔗 All the details: https://ow.ly/wChv50ZbIGq