Erika Majoros and Leah N. Glassow win IEA Research Awards 2023

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The IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) is responsible for major international studies such as TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) and PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study). To highlight high-quality research that makes use of IEA data, the organisation has established two prizes. 

At the end of September, it was announced that the 2023 "Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award" goes to Erika Majoros for her doctoral thesis Linking Recent and Older IEA Studies on Mathematics and Science. In her thesis, she links previous knowledge assessments in mathematics and science to the results of TIMSS. One result of Majoros' work is that it is now possible to compare knowledge results as far back as the 1960s.   
 

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The corresponding award for best paper, the "Richard M. Wolf Memorial Award", is awarded to Leah N. Glassow for her article Socioeconomic Sorting of Teacher Qualifications Exacerbate Mathematics Achievement Inequity? Panel Data Estimates from 20 years of TIMSS. Leah N. Glassow has used data from TIMSS to investigate whether the distribution of qualified teachers is a factor that increases the inequity in performance between different socioeconomic groups. The results show that the distribution of educated teachers to some extent can reinforce inequality in performance and that socioeconomic school segregation is a clear influencing factor.

Text: Kristina Modigh