A big thank you to everyone who joined us at the 11th IEA IRC in Rome!🌍
The #IEAIRC2025 brought together inspiring presentations, engaging conversations, and wonderful opportunities to reconnect with colleagues from around the world.
Catch the highlights here: youtu.be/BoCiezEL97g
Exciting times at the #IEAIRC2025 conference in Rome! Under the theme „Researching #Education for Sustainable Futures", our IFS team shared interesting insights on #Reading literacy and home learning environment. Grateful for the connections made!
🏁 And that's a wrap! The 2025 #IEAIRC2025 is over!
Find the round up of final day activities here: www.iea.nl/news-events/...
🙌 Vital research on a topic of the highest importance, and a special treat for us at #IEAIRC2025 to hear Katherine Reynolds and Lale Khorramdel - two of the report's authors - speak on the report in today's afternoon session.
Download for free here: www.iea.nl/news-events/...
Alec Kennedy then shared some important and highly relevant insights on administration mode effects in context questionnaires, as IEA studies move from paper-based to digital assessment.
Such an important topic - wonderful to see it being given its warranted place at IEA IRC 2025.
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📸 Elena Papanastasiou & Aidan Clerkin (@ercirl.bsky.social) contribute to the 'TIMSS & PIRLS Secondary Analysis' session
Some great stuff in this one:
🌟Evaluating test engagement
🌟Non-response patterns on SES items
🌟Mode effect evidence from Ireland, Azerbaijan, Bahrain & Flanders
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🗣️“We are in global crisis - climate change, economic disparities, demographic imbalances... more can be done to connect research and policy with practice”
🗣️“The best is the enemy of the good; the good has to be actioned and cannot be postponed for the ‘best action’”
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🗣️ “There is a shift that is maybe needed in pedagogical citizenship... a holistic approach to teaching Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with other elements of citizenship in schools.”
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🔥 Day 1 of the #IEAIRC2025 is done, and we're off to a great start! Check out the roundup of the day's activities here:
www.iea.nl/news-events/...
Download for free here to read and save for future reference: www.iea.nl/publications...
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👀A full house packed in for the symposium on 'Understanding Group Differences & Comparability through Student Process Data: Insights from TIMSS 2019'
The session demonstrates how insights from TIMSS process data can contribute to creating more inclusive & equitable educational systems.
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🛍️ We have lots of goodies at our 2025 IEA International Research Conference booth next to registration for anyone who hasn't picked theirs up yet! Come visit us in the next break 👋
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🗣️ 'We have found that AI can produce scoring reliability at comparable, and sometimes even higher levels, than human scoring'
Some of our amazing colleagues from Boston College speak on 'Artificial Intelligence and Process Data Application in TIMSS and PIRLS'.
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Prof. Braun also highlighted the great value of #TIMSS data for policy insights, with particular emphasis on the possibilities for cohort-based analysis in countries participating in TIMSS at both fourth and eighth grade.
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🎇 And we're off in grand style! The 2025 IEA International Research Conference has officially kicked with our keynote speaker from Boston College Prof. Henry Braun and his really thought-provoking lecture on 'A "New" Approach to Comparisons of Cognitive Growth: Insights from TIMSS'
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📸Scenes from the opening ceremony of IRC 2025 here at the beautiful Università degli studi Roma TRE! Here we go!
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💻Pre-conference workshops came to a close yesterday at the 2025 IEA International Research Conference. It's inspiring to be surrounded by talented & enthusiastic colleagues from the field of education research - a special atmosphere!
Read a roundup of the workshops: shorturl.at/qVTq9
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🌞 As the workshops closed yesterday, the conference itself is just getting started! The welcome reception last night was a wonderful chance to reacquaint with friends and make new connections too.
Welcome to Rome and to the 2025 IEA International Research Conference!
Ciao #IEAIRC2025 🫶
🚀 Keeping the great start going here are Alec Kennedy, Andrés Strello, Rolf Strietholt, Sylke V. Schnepf and their participants at 'Methods for Causal Inference with Observational Data from International Assessments'.
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It's the first day of IEA IRC pre-conference workshops👏
Here's a peek into the action in the workshop on 'An Introduction to the Use and Analysis of ICILS Process Data'. Analysis is already starting up!
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☕Sharing, socializing and refueling for the first of many times this week. Workshops are off to a great start - already plenty to discuss! 🧠
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🤩 The week we've been waiting for!
🎉 IEA is in beautiful Italy for the IEA International Research Conference 2025! Today kicks off with our pre-conference workshops at the Department of Humanities @Romatr Tre University. Stay tuned for more IRC updates throughout the week 🙌 #IEAIRC2025
📢 Excited for the #IEAIRC2025? The full program (now including abstracts!) is live! Explore the sessions, plan your agenda, and get ready for an inspiring week in Rome 🌍
🎉 Social events, practical tips and more key information here 👉 ow.ly/jf1750WcWSE
