International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
Acronym: IEA
General Information
Identification Code: 557820217302-40
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Entity Form: non-profit international scientific society
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 5/11/2015
Last Update: 2/21/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: IEA is an independent, international cooperative of national research institutions and governmental research agencies.
It conducts large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement and other aspects of education, with the aim of gaining in-depth understanding of the effects of policies and practices within and across systems of education.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Education and training
- Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Educational Policy, Key Competences, ECEC and LLL agendas
IEA is deeply concerned in educational achievements worldwide:
If custom and law define what is educationally allowable within a nation, the educational systems beyond one's national boundaries suggest what is educationally possible. (Arthur W. Foshay, Educational Achievements of Thirteen-Year-Olds in Twelve Countries, 1962)
IEA became a legal entity in 1967, but its origins date back to 1958 when a group of scholars, educational psychologists, sociologists, and psychometricians met at the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss problems of school and student evaluation. They argued that effective evaluation requires examination of both the inputs to education and its outcomes (such as knowledge, attitudes, and participation).
The founders of IEA viewed the world as a natural educational laboratory, where different school systems experiment in different ways to obtain optimal results in the education of their youth, and we still assume that if research could obtain evidence from across a wide range of systems, the variability would be sufficient to reveal important relationships, which would otherwise escape detection within a single education system.
Until today we strongly reject data-free assertions about the relative merits of various education systems, and aim in identifying factors having meaningful and consistent influences on educational outcomes.
Communication Activities: STEM (mathematics and science at the grades 4, 8, and 12): TIMSS
Reading literacy (grade 4): PIRLS
Civic and Citizenship Education (grade 8): ICCS
Digital Literacy (grade 8): ICILS
Pandemic’s impact on global education (grade 8): REDS
21st century skills: 21CS MAP
Early Childhood Education: ECES; and more
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Keizersgracht 311
Post Code: 1016EE
City: Amsterdam
Country: NETHERLANDS
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EU Office
Address: Keizersgracht 311
Post Code: 1016EE
City: Amsterdam
Country: NETHERLANDS
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 2
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 3
Members F T E: 1.5
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: More than 60 countries around the world. For a full list of IEA institutional members, please see the following link:
https://www.iea.nl/about/members/institutional-member-and-participating-institutions
Organisation Members: IEA fosters the establishment and growth of national expertise in assessment methodology and administration by delivering seminars and training for local staff engaged in national assessment activities. This promotes the development of evidence-based educational policies and practices, and a strong network of international collaboration and exchange.
Some of our current and past partners include:
ETS
European Commission
IDB
OEI
PASEC
SACMEQ
World Bank
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UNESCO IIEP
United Nations Development Programme
West African Examinations Councils