Student Background Questionnaire

National Research Coordinators Meeting Amsterdam, 16 - 19 October 2006

NRCMeeting

Amsterdam16-19 Oct 2006

Characteristics of the Student background questionnaire

(StBQ)

• Will collect contextual data at the student level

• Will be administered after the international test (before StPQ)

• Will take about 15 minutes to complete

• May have similar questions as in TQ and ScQ

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Amsterdam16-19 Oct 2006

Mapping StBQ contents to the Contextual Framework

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Proposed student background questions

• All of these draft questions are in a preliminary stage

• In particular questions on participation and communication may need further discussion and refinement

• Some questions will require national adaptations, which should be reviewed and documented (e.g. ISCED categories for parental education)

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Amsterdam16-19 Oct 2006

Changes from CIVED

• Inclusion of questions on participation, communication and teaching (as factual student reports)

• Categories for parental and expected education with reference to international framework (ISCED)

• Re-writing of problematic CIVED items• Addition of items (e.g. country of birth

for parents)

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Priorities were assigned to the preliminary set of questions

* Low Priority

**Medium Priority

*** High Priority

Priorities are subject to further discussion!

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Student characteristics

• Age***

• Gender***

• Optional: Ethnic background (“What best describes you?”)**

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Home characteristics

• Household composition**

• Number of people at home*

• Country of birth (student, father and mother)***

• Year of coming to <country of test>*

• Language use at home***

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Socio-economic indicators

• Parental occupation (mother, father) – two questions each***

• Parental education (simplified)***

• Household possessions**

• Books at home***

• Daily newspaper at home*

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Student activities

• Frequency of involvement***– Discussions– Media use– Social activities

• Active civic-related participation out of school***

• Frequency of active civic-related participation***

• Civic-related activities at school***

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School-related issues

• Classroom practices (climate for open classroom discussion)***– Frequency scale instead of agreement

scale!

• Expected education***– ISCED levels instead of years of

education (to increase precision)

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Issues

• Development of cross-nationally valid measures of active participation

• Feasibility of capturing data on parental occupation (validity, reliability of coding procedures)

• Trends from CIVED: Should some variables be kept unchanged for trend reporting?

• Use of “Don’t Know” categories (parental education, others?)

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Amsterdam16-19 Oct 2006

Questions or comments?