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Peer-reviewed articles, books and chapters, and policy reports and working papers, written for the OECD, UNESCO, Eurofound, Cedefop and the Minderoo Foundation.

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These are the published outputs of the Center’s founder and director, Dr Milos Kankaras. The Center did not author them. They are listed here because they are the evidence base the practice works from. Filter by programme to see the work behind one line of research, or follow a title through to the study it came out of.

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40 publications

  1. 2026Evaluation research framework of UNESCO MGIEPUNESCO MGIEP, New Delhi DOIReport
  2. 2026Interpreting the PISA score declines: evidence and cautions for ten proposed explanationsZenodo / Center for Psychology DOIAnalytical brief
  3. 2026The illusion of precision: interpreting international rankings within their measurement limitsSocArXiv (preprint) DOIPreprint
  4. 2026The United Arab Emirates in PISA 2025Center for PsychologyCountry note
  5. 2026Which AI model is truly the best: how reliable are public benchmarks of frontier AI models?Zenodo (preprint) DOIPreprint
  6. 2025Neither agree nor disagree: use and misuse of the neutral response category in Likert-type scalesMetron 83(1), 111-140 DOIArticle
  7. 2024Simultaneous latent class analysis across groupsEncyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research DOIChapter
  8. 2023Assessment of social and emotional skills in the OECD's SSES studyCenter for Psychology Read itChapter
  9. 2022Domestic violence: effectiveness of intervention programsGender Equality #4 Read itReport
  10. 2022Editorial: Theory and empirical practice in research on social and emotional skillsFrontiers in Education DOIArticle
  11. 2022Policy and research on gender equality: an overviewGender Equality #1 Read itReport
  12. 2022The global state of gender equality: an overview of empirical findingsGender Equality #2 Read itReport
  13. 2022Violence against women and girls: effectiveness of intervention programsGender Equality #3 Read itReport
  14. 2021Workplace learning: determinants and consequencesCedefop working paper series Read itWorking paper
  15. 2020Attendance in early childhood education and care programmes and academic proficiencies at age 15OECD Education Working Papers DOIWorking paper
  16. 2019Assessing students' social and emotional skills through triangulation of assessment methodsOECD Education Working Papers DOIWorking paper
  17. 2019Assessment framework of the Study on Social and Emotional SkillsOECD Education Working Papers DOIWorking paper
  18. 2018Social and emotional skills for student success and well-beingOECD Education Working Papers DOIWorking paper
  19. 2018Teaching for the future: effective classroom practices to transform educationOECD Publishing Read itReport
  20. 2018Testing for measurement invariance with latent class analysisCross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications DOIChapter
  21. 2018The power and promise of early learningOECD Education Working Papers DOIWorking paper
  22. 2017Personality matters: relevance and assessment of personality characteristicsOECD Education Working Papers Read itWorking paper
  23. 2016Skills matter: further results from the Survey of Adult SkillsOECD Publishing Read itReport
  24. 2016Survey of Adult Skills country note: New ZealandOECD Publishing Read itReport
  25. 2016Survey of Adult Skills country note: SloveniaOECD Publishing Read itReport
  26. 2016What does low proficiency in literacy really mean?Adult Skills in Focus DOIReport
  27. 2015Workplace practices: patterns, performance and well-beingEurofound Read itReport
  28. 2014Analysis of cross-cultural comparability of PISA 2009 scoresJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology DOIArticle
  29. 2014The future of work in Europe: job quality and work organisation for smart, sustainable and inclusive growthEmployment and Social Developments in Europe 2014 Read itChapter
  30. 2012Cross-national and cross-ethnic differences in attitudes: a case of LuxembourgCross-Cultural Research DOIArticle
  31. 2011Measurement equivalence and extreme response bias in the comparison of attitudes across EuropeMethodology DOIArticle
  32. 2011Measurement equivalence of ordinal items: a comparison of factor analytic, item response theory, and latent class approachesSociological Methods and Research DOIArticle
  33. 2010Cross-national and cross-ethnic differences in political and leisure attitudes: a case of LuxembourgCEPS/INSTEAD Working Paper Series Read itWorking paper
  34. 2010Essays on measurement equivalence in cross-cultural survey research: a latent class approachDoctoral dissertation, Tilburg University Read itThesis
  35. 2010Researching measurement equivalence in cross-cultural studiesPsihologija DOIArticle
  36. 2009Implicit theories of creativity: a cross-cultural studyPsihologija DOIArticle
  37. 2009Measurement equivalence in solidarity attitudes in Europe: insights from a multiple-group latent-class factor approachInternational Sociology DOIArticle
  38. 2008Measurement equivalence and extreme response bias in the comparison of attitudes across EuropeIRISS Working Paper Series Read itWorking paper
  39. 2007Heterogeneity in solidarity attitudes in EuropeIRISS Working Paper Series Read itWorking paper
  40. 2004Metacognition: a new cognitive paradigmPsihologija DOIArticle

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