To support and promote secondary analyses, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is making the SITES 2006 international database and accompanying User Guide available to researchers, analysts, and public users. The database comprises national contexts and school- and teacher-level data from 23 education systems, all of which gave IEA permission to release their national data. It includes information from roughly 8,000 schools, including more than 13,000 mathematics and over 16,000 science teachers.

The SITES 2006 User Guide describes the content, format, and usage of the SITES 2006 international database.

• Chapter 1: Overview of the SITES 2006 International Database
• Chapter 2: The SITES 2006 Data Files
• Chapter 3: Weights and Variance Estimation
• Chapter 4: Analyzing the SITES 2006 Data Using the IEA IDB Analyzer
• Appendix A: SITES 2006 National Context Questionnaire
• Appendix B: SITES 2006 Principal Questionnaire
• Appendix C: SITES 2006 Technical Questionnaire
• Appendix D: SITES 2006 Teacher Questionnaire
• Appendix E: Characteristics of the Australian Sample

The IDB (SPSS and SAS formats) and the User Guide are now available for download from the 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