ECER 2024 was held in Nicosia on August 26-30. Network 9 organized 13 paper sessions, five symposium sessions, a joint symposium session with NW34, and one research workshop. The attendance of the sessions was good in general and the discussions were rich and interesting. Authors of the Network 9 submissions accepted for ECER 2024 were from 20 countries, reflecting the international composition of conference presentations. The organisation of ECER 2024 was great; there were no serious technical issues.
Monica Rosén, the Link Convenor of Network 9, sadly passed away on August 29, while attending ECER 2024. The Network meeting and keynote address were postponed and held online on October 22, 2024. At the network meeting, network members supported the proposal by network convenors to name the network keynote “Monica Rosén Memorial Lecture”. The inaugural Monica Rosén Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Elena C. Papanastasiou from the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) on the theme of “Bridging Gaps and Improving the Future: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities through Large-Scale Assessments”. She engaged with the network members in a discussion online on 22 October 2024.
Below is the list of the 13 paper sessions which were held in Network 9 by topic (in chronological order):
- Insights into Learning and Assessment
- Understanding Educational Disparities
- Challenges in Educational Measurement Practices
- Exploring Educational Dynamics and Academic Performance
- Innovative Approaches to Educational Practice and Assessment
- Examining Leadership, Student Outcomes, and Academic Trajectories
- Reimagining Assessment Practices and Teacher Autonomy
- Exploring Innovative Approaches to Assessment and Feedback
- Exploring Factors Influencing Teaching Quality and Student Learning Outcomes
- Investigating Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes
- Exploring Factors Influencing Academic Achievement and Motivation
- Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Student Well-being and Academic Performance
- Investigating Gender Disparities in Academic Skills and Vocational Interests
Also contributing to the network programme were six symposia sessions titled as follows (in chronological order):
- Perspective-Dependent Biases in the Assessment of Children’s Behavior
- Utilizing International Assessment Data to Understand Variation in Cognitive and Non-cognitive Factors Across Europe and Beyond
- ICT and Education: Perspectives from ICILS and PIRLS
- Civic and Citizenship Education in Times of Global Challenges (joint symposium with NW34)
- Analyzing the Potentials of Digitalization in an Age of Uncertainty
- Educational Justice in Kosovo
A further contribution to the network programme was a research workshop with the theme “Doubly-Latent Models of Compositional Effects: An Illustration Using Educational Large-scale Assessment Data' by Ioulia Televantou (European University Cyprus).
In terms of offers for capacity building and professional development, members of Network 9 gladly continued supporting the Emerging Researchers’ Conference (ERC) by participating in the review process and by serving as mentors for sessions in the ERC 2024.
For further details on the work and activities in Network 9 see the minutes of the network meeting at ECER 2024 and the different sections of the website of Network 9.