From 2004 to work that is still collecting data. Filter by programme to see one line of work at a time.
34 studies
A short form of the Cultural Intelligence Scale
Structure, fairness and a brief form of the most used cultural intelligence measure, in 1,459 people.
Do people know how AI literate they are?
Self-reported AI literacy against measured AI literacy, in the same people.
Does an objective AI literacy measure travel across languages?
Multi-group invariance of an objective AI literacy test across languages and countries.
Evaluation research framework for UNESCO MGIEP
An evaluation architecture for an institute running many different programmes.
My child is best: how parents' affection distorts assessment scales
Parents rate their own children generously, and it bends the scale rather than just shifting it.
Reference data for the instruments published here
Building our own reference distributions from the tests on this site.
VALORA: a work values instrument
Our own work values scale, built from blueprint to reference data.
The neutral midpoint in rating scales
What the middle option on a rating scale actually captures, and what offering it does to the data.
PISA 2022: secondary analysis and country notes
Nine analyses of the same international results, eight country notes and a Montenegro deep dive.
Assessment of social and emotional skills in SSES
A full account of how the SSES instruments were built and scored.
Theory and empirical practice in social and emotional skills research
An editorial on the gap between how these skills are theorised and how they get measured.
Workplace learning: determinants and consequences
Who learns at work, what makes it possible, and what it changes.
Early childhood education attendance and proficiency at fifteen
Whether time in early childhood programmes still shows in performance ten years later.
Assessment framework for the Study on Social and Emotional Skills
The conceptual and assessment framework the OECD SSES was built on.
Triangulating student, parent and teacher reports
What happens when the same skill is rated by three different people.
Effective classroom practices
Which teaching practices show up in international data as making a difference.
Social and emotional skills, student success and well-being
The evidence linking these skills to school, work and health outcomes.
Testing for measurement invariance with latent class analysis
The method chapter: how to run an invariance test in a latent class framework.
The power and promise of early learning
What early learning does for later outcomes, and what can be measured at age five.
Personality characteristics and their assessment
Why personality frameworks became the backbone of skill assessment.
Skills Matter: results from the Survey of Adult Skills
The second round of international results on adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving.
Survey of Adult Skills country notes: New Zealand and Slovenia
Two country-level readings of the same international dataset.
What low proficiency in literacy really means
The concrete tasks that people at the lowest proficiency levels cannot do.
Workplace practices, performance and well-being
How European workplaces are actually organised, and what that does to people in them.
Cross-cultural comparability of PISA 2009 scores
Whether PISA scales measure the same construct in every participating country.
Job quality and work organisation in the future of work
Job quality as a policy object rather than a by-product of employment levels.
Cross-national and cross-ethnic differences in attitudes in Luxembourg
One country, several language communities, and the measurement problem that creates.
Extreme response bias in cross-European attitude comparisons
Some countries reach for the end points of a scale more than others, and it looks like an attitude.
Ordinal items: factor analysis, item response theory and latent class compared
Three ways to test invariance on the same data, and where they disagree.
Essays on measurement equivalence in cross-cultural survey research
The latent class approach to measurement equivalence, developed end to end.
Researching measurement equivalence in cross-cultural studies
A review of what equivalence means and which tests answer which question.
Heterogeneity in solidarity attitudes across Europe
Solidarity attitudes compared across countries, once the measure is shown to be comparable.
Implicit theories of creativity across cultures
What ordinary people believe creativity is, and how that belief varies by culture.
Metacognition as a cognitive paradigm
An early review of metacognition as an organising idea rather than a single construct.