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Scaling Procedures For Iccs Questionnaire Items, Wolfram Schulz, Tim Friedman
Scaling Procedures For Iccs Questionnaire Items, Wolfram Schulz, Tim Friedman
Dr Wolfram Schulz
This chapter describes the procedures used to scale the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) questionnaire data (for students, teachers, and schools) and the indices based on them. In general, it is possible to distinguish two general types of indices derived from the ICCS questionnaires: 1. Simple indices constructed through arithmetical transformation or recoding, for example, ratios between teachers and students; and 2. Scale indices derived from scaling of items, a process typically achieved by using item response modeling of dichotomous or Likert-type items. The first part of this chapter lists the simple indices that were derived from the …
Iccs Questionnaire Development, Wolfram Schulz, Bruno Losito, David Kerr
Iccs Questionnaire Development, Wolfram Schulz, Bruno Losito, David Kerr
Dr Wolfram Schulz
This chapter describes the development of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) international questionnaires for students, teachers, schools, and national research centers. The student questionnaire was designed to measure both learning outcomes and contextual information. The teacher questionnaire was designed to gather teacher perspectives on the general school and community environment, teaching methods, and civic and citizenship education. School principals were asked to report on the school context for learning, on school characteristics, including school climate, as well as aspects of civic and citizenship education at their schools. An online questionnaire for national research coordinators (NRCs)—the national contexts …