General Activities
The Swedish research school “Quantitative Research Methods in Education” (QRM) funded by the Swedish Research Council offers advanced method courses for both PhD candidates and post-docs free of charge. A major part of the courses has been held online even before the pandemic, with one meeting in person to promote network building. QRM also organizes an annual conference in June. Colleagues in Network 9 are welcome to apply. More information about the courses is available at https://www.gu.se/en/qrm.
Publications
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Accountability (co-convenor Strietholt is editor)
- Large-scale Assessment in Education (co-convenor Gonzalez is editor)
- Studies in Educational Evaluation (co-convenor Howie is editor)
- Planned edited book on the symposia Unlocking the Potential of National Educational Management Information Systems for Research (part 1, 2, 3, 4). Possibly for EERA book series. (editors: Stefan Johansson/Rolf Strietholt).
- A Special issue in memory of former convenor Rosén announced (release data: late 2025/early 2026).
Future Plans
The network is planning to create a special issue for papers presented at the upcoming ECER.
NW 09 runs a mailing list and invites researchers to join. To join the mailing list, send a blank message to nw09-subscribe(at)lists.eera-ecer.de .
Subthemes
- Theory of Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
- Methodology and Instrumentation of Assessments, Evaluations, Tests and Measurements
- Assessments in the Domains of School Subjects
- Relating Achievement Results to Variables on Individual Level
- Relating Achievement Results to Variables on Class, School/Institution or System Level
- Evaluation of Educational Research
- Educational Assessment Policies and System Monitoring