IEA SITES 2006 Technical Report

Technical Report

SITES 2006 was an ambitious and demanding study, involving complex procedures for drawing samples, collecting data, and analyzing and reporting findings. The technical implementation of SITES 2006 resembles, to a large extent, the procedures used in IEA's past and present student achievement studies, such as TIMSS and PIRLS. However, the adult target populations, for instance, imply certain operational consequences and necessities.

The SITES 2006 technical report therefore provides full documentation of the methodological and analytical implementation of the study, which produced the international database underlying the international report (Law, Pelgrum, & Plomp, 2008).

Chapter 1: Technical Overview of SITES 2006
Chapter 2: National Context Questionnaire Development
Chapter 3: School-level Questionnaire Development
Chapter 4: Teacher Questionnaire Development
Chapter 5: Translation, National Adaptation, and Verification
Chapter 6: Sampling Design
Chapter 7: Survey Operations and Procedures
Chapter 8: Online Data Collection
Chapter 9: Creating and Checking the International Database
Chapter 10: Sampling Weights and Participation Rates
Chapter 11: Scale and Indicator Construction for the School and Teacher Levels
Chapter 12: Reporting Data and Indicators
Appendix A: Acknowledgments
Appendix B: Characteristics of the National Samples
Appendix C: Sampling Stratification Variables
Appendix D: Cultural and National Adaptations to the Questionnaires
Appendix E: Examples of Teacher Listing and Tracking Forms

The IEA SITES 2006 Technical Report is now available for download from the IEA website at http://ww.iea.nl and IEA's Study Data Repository at http://rms.iea-dpc.org/

For more information please contact:

IEA Data Processing and Research Center - SITES Project (Ralph Carstens, Falk Brese)
sites@iea-dpc.de