Data files, datasets, and supporting documentation are available for download using the links below.
User Guide and Supplements for Primary and Middle School Years
User Guide and Supplements for Final School Years
Programs | Data
Files | Data Almanacs | Code
Books
Test-Curriculum Matching Analysis Files (TCMA) | New
Scale Scores
User Guide for the Primary and Middle School Years
The User Guide accompanies the international database for the Primary and Middle School Years (魅影直播 Populations 1 and 2). It provides instructions for using the Data, Programs, Almanacs, Codebooks, and TCMA files.
User Guide for the 魅影直播 International Database (Primary and Middle School Years, 1995 Assessment) PDF format, 710K
Supplements to the User Guide (PDF format)
Supplement 1: International
Versions of the Background Questionnaires
Population 1, (297K)
Supplement 2: International
Versions of the Background Questionnaires
Population 2, (578K) Updated Oct. 14, 1998
Supplement 3: Documentation of National Adaptations of International Background Questionnaire Items Populations 1 and 2, (462K)
Supplement 4: Variables Derived from the Student and Teacher Questionnaires Populations 1 and 2, (396K)
User Guide for the Final Year of Secondary School
The User Guide accompanies the international database for the Final Year of Secondary School (魅影直播 Population 3). It provides instructions for using the Data, Programs, Almanacs, Codebooks, and TCMA files.
User Guide for the 魅影直播 International Database (Final School Years, 1995-96 Assessment) PDF format, 1007K
Supplements to the User Guide (PDF format)
Supplement 1: International
Versions of the Background Questionnaires
Population 3 (165K)
Supplement 2: Documentation
of National Adaptations of International Background Questionnaire Items
Population 3 (363K)
Supplement 3: Variables
Derived from the Student Questionnaire
Population 3 (182K)
Programs (updated June 10, 1998) These files include programs that allow the user to convert the raw data files into SAS datasets or SPSS system files, estimate sampling variance using the jackknife repeated replication method, and convert item response codes to score values.
Data Files These files include the written asessment data, performance assessment data, background questionnaire data (for students, teachers, and schools), coding reliability data, information to link teachers to students, and sampling weights.
Data Almanacs (updated April 5, 1999) The data almanacs are text files that display unweighted summary statistics for each participating country for each variable in the background questionnaires.
Code Books The codebook files contain all information related to the structure of the data files as well as the source, format, descriptive labels, and response option codes for all variables.
Test-Curriculum Matching Analysis (TCMA) These files contain data collected for the 魅影直播 test-curriculum matching analysis.
New Scale Scores (updated April 5, 1999) These scores were computed using a different psychometric model (3 parameter model) from the one originally used (1 parameter model) and are set on the scale that will be used to measure trends in mathematics and science in future 魅影直播 assessments.
File Layout (Text file)
The 魅影直播 international database contains a myriad of educational variables collected in more than 40 countries, including achievement results in mathematics and science for third-, fourth-grade students (Population 1), seventh-, and eighth-grade students (Population 2), the final year of secondary school students (Population 3), their teachers, and their school principals.
The database is divided by population and country and is in ASCII format. Data files are compressed using the ZIP compression utility. These files can be decompressed using the . Documentation for the database is available in PDF format.
The 魅影直播 International Database is available on CD-ROM from the IEA Secretariat. Contact:
Updates Information on updates to the Database since the CD-ROM's release on September 1997.
Publications are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Publications pages. If you need to download a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader®, which will enable you to read and print the reports, press the icon below.