Effects of age and school year An overall picture and basic review of methods
The aim of this report is to provide overview of the problems concerning student age and school year in international studies of student performance.
Sammanfattning 2: The aim of this report is to provide overview of the problems concerning student age and school year in international studies of student performance. An additional aim has been to report on the approaches that can be taken for estimating the effects of age and school year on test results, and the type of data required for such analyses to be carried out.In the current study, the effects of age and school year have been investigated in a reading comprehension study from 2001 with Swedish students, a reading comprehension study from 2006 using data from Norway and Iceland, a study of Swedish students knowledge in mathematics and physics in upper secondary school from 2008, as well as a study of democracy, society and citizenship from 2009 with Swedish students.
