IEA
International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS)
Joint Management Committee Meeting
Tuesday 9 December 2008
1. Convening of meeting
Present: John, Wolfram, Julian, Tim, Falk, David, Gabriella, Bruno
Apologies: Barbara, Michael, Joana
2. ICCS Meetings
(a) JMC data analysis preparation meeting (Hamburg - July 2009)
Proposed: Third week in July (20th), probably starting on Tuesday
(b) Next PAC meeting (Tallin - October 2009)
Barbara to inform next VTC
(c) Next NRC meeting (Spain - February 2010)
Location and dates to be discussed next VTC, probably Spain
3. Main Survey implementation
(a) National adaptations – progress report (Wolfram)
28 countries have submitted NAF, 6 are still in progress. Reminders have been sent to
Italy and Dominican Republic. Indonesia and Paraguay are already in contact with
ISC regarding adaptation review.
(b) Translation verification – progress report (Barbara)
Barbara to inform next VTC
(c) Layout verification – progress report (Tim)
Some issues with layout with recent submissions.
(d) Preparations for main survey data processing & analysis (DPC/Wolfram)
Discussion about how to determine participation status for students for countries with
regional instruments. Separate weights for regional data are seen as problematic as
they should be analysed together with international data. However, this may have to
be discussed further with the IEA TEG after the extent of differences in response rates
between international and regional instruments has been reviewed with empirical data.
SPSS codes for three indices that DPC will compute for database have been sent by
Wolfram.
(e) Country specific issues (Wolfram/DPC)
Ireland has been informed that they may use special assistance for student that cannot
be tested otherwise but ISC emphasised need to monitoring how this would be
decided and insisted on having information about assisted testing in the data files.
Ireland has agreed to this and informed that so far special assistance has been
requested for very few students. Ireland was also informed about likely reporting
procedures for countries not meeting response rate requirements. Wolfram will
forward the ISC response to all JMC members.
(f) Information about implementation in SH countries (Wolfram)
Some marking design queries received by Chile and New Zealand, things appear to
have worked reasonably well with the data collection.
4 Asian module
(a) Report on Asian regional meeting (Hong Kong – November 2008)
Report from Julian about successful meeting with Asian NRCs in Hong Kong. At the
meeting the pilot analysis report was discussed and the items for Asian regional main
survey questionnaire were selected. One issue of discussion was the interest of NRCs
to be named as authors of any regional report. One suggestion is to have an overall
regional report (elaborated by ISC and others) followed by country-specific chapters
where NRCs would become authors. This will still have to be decided at a later stage.
(b) Report on final instrument (Julian/Wolfram)
The final questionnaire will take less than 15 minutes to complete. Items that scaled
well plus a few selected items for single-item reporting were retained from pilot.
(c) Implementation (Julian)
Thailand has already completed the NAF for the regional questionnaire. There was
some confusion whether it should be administered to the same students but ISC has
clarified this issue by pointing at the procedures outlined in the manuals.
5. Publications and dissemination
(a) Assessment Framework – status (Barbara)
Barbara to report next VTC
(b) International and regional reports (Wolfram)
No further developments
(c) Updated ICCS brochure
Updated ICCS brochure uploaded to website
6. Communications
(a) Next newsletter (Tim)
JMC agreed to release next newsletter in January 2009
7. Other developments
(a) National contexts survey – update (Falk/David)
Hong Kong, Korea and Latvia have started to complete NCS. Brief discussion about
need to verify data, in particularly for the Dominican Republic where obviously some
questions were not properly understood.
(b) Country participation (Barbara)
No further developments
8. Other matters
David reported that Norway would like to administer only parts of the ERM
instrument, ISC will follow this up to clarify this issue.
Brief discussion about school questionnaire question 7, where second item should be
adapted as referring to any student participation in elections at school level, not only
to those for <school council, school governing board> as indicated in the adaptation
template.
Wolfram away on holidays from 14 December to 4 January 2009, John away first two
weeks in January and back on 12 January 2009.
9. Next meeting
Next VTC agreed for Wednesday 14 January 2009
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