2022 Anastasi Lecture: TIMSS, PIRLS, and Friends: Driving Innovation in International Educational Assessments

International Large Scale Assessments (ILSAs) have been conducted since TIMSS 1995 started reporting trends in mathematics and science achievement of students around the world. In this presentation, Matthias von Davier, Ph.D., Monan Professor in Education at Boston College, will describe current activities around TIMSS 2023, setting the standard for fully digital assessments of student achievement with a focus on education, not economics. The talk will introduce the assessments and discuss how they benefitted from a careful transition to computer-based assessment, by implementing innovations that serve the needs of countries while reducing the burden of participation.

von Davier is the executive director at TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center. His research focuses on developing psychometric models for analyzing data from complex item and respondent samples and on integrating diagnostic procedures into these methods.

A reception will follow the lecture.

Can’t make it to the in-person lecture? View it online at www.fordham.edu/anastasi2022.