Outputs (2)

What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice (2018)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Stankov, L., Lee, J., & Beckmann, J. (2019). What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice. Comparative Education, 55(1), 133-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2018.1545386

There appears to be something of an intellectual and philosophical gulf between education researchers who seek insights from statistical analyses of complex data-sets such as those provided by the OECD (PISA), and others who seek to develop rich, con... Read More about What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice.

Dynamic assessment: a case of unfulfilled potential? (2018)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Resing, W., & Beckmann, J. (2018). Dynamic assessment: a case of unfulfilled potential?. Educational Review, 70(1), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2018.1396806

This paper updates a review of dynamic assessment in education by the first author, published in this journal in 2003. It notes that the original review failed to examine the important conceptual distinction between dynamic testing (DT) and dynamic a... Read More about Dynamic assessment: a case of unfulfilled potential?.