Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Sylke Schnepf, Gabriele B. Durrant () and John Micklewright ()
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Gabriele B. Durrant: University of Southampton

No 8411, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and pupils sampled for PISA whether responding or not, including data from two large-scale administrative sources on pupils' results in national public exams, which correlate highly with the PISA target variable. Results show that characteristics associated with non-response differ between the school and pupil levels. The findings have important implications for the survey design of education data.

Keywords: data linkage; survey design; Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); non-response; educational achievement survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2014-08
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Published - revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (4), 1057 - 1074

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