Research

Research

Ten lines of work, the oldest running since 2004, with the individual studies and the published output inside each one.

Across the programmes

A programme is a line of work that runs for years and keeps returning to the same question; the studies are the individual pieces done inside one.

12studies

Measurement comparability

Whether a measure means the same thing in every group being compared, and what follows when it does not. The longest-running line of work here.

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6studies

Instrument development and validation

Building an instrument from construct blueprint through piloting to structure, invariance and reference data.

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6studies

SSES: Social and Emotional Skills

The OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills, from conceptual framework through instruments to cross-country delivery and reporting.

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5studies

International comparative policy research

Secondary analysis of international assessment data, and what it can and cannot support in policy terms.

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5studies

Personality and individual differences

How stable differences between people are described, structured and measured.

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3studies

IELS: Early Learning

The OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study, and what it shows about measuring young children.

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3studies

Skills assessment

Measuring what adults know and can do, and what low proficiency actually means.

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3studies

Work and job quality

Job quality, workplace learning and how work is organised, using European survey evidence.

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2studies

AI literacy measurement

Whether AI literacy can be measured objectively, and whether the measure travels across languages.

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1study

Programme evaluation

Evaluation architecture and empirical evaluation studies for education and development programmes.

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How this fits together

Most studies sit under one programme. Some sit under two, because a study of how a measure behaves across countries is both a comparability study and a study of the thing being measured. Those appear in both places rather than being forced into one.

Every study The publications behind them The instruments