NSSA 2012: 8th Grade Students Study, 2012

The purpose of the study: to provide impartial information for the school, its students, and their parents (caregivers, foster parents) about the achievements to make decisions on the further improvements of teaching and studying on student, teacher, class, school, municipality, and national level. The objectives of National Survey of Student Achievement (NASA): to collect the information for monitoring the national students’ achievements, planning the novelties, and implementing the novelties for monitoring the success; to evaluate the educational content, and substantiating students’ achievement criteria based on collected data; to prepare the necessary tools (i.e., standardized tests, etc.) for students and teachers for the impartial evaluation of their work results; to prepare the necessary tools (i.e., standardized tests, etc.) for the municipality’s education subdivisions and school principals for collecting the required data of work result assessments and planning of activities. National Survey of Student Achievement, first implemented in 2002, became the responsibility of the Education Supply Centre. Due to economic reasons, the assessments were not provided from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, the renewed assessment implementation was consigned to the National Examination Centre. Since the 2nd of September, 2019, the National Agency of Education took over the activities of the National Examination Centre and continues to carry them on to this day. During the 2012 National Assessments of Student Achievements, grade 8 students received notebooks with 9 types of tests. To pinpoint the personal peculiarities as well as home, class, and school context, etc., the student questionnaires were used for the research of educational context. One student got to fill out only one notebook which consisted of tests from two different subjects and a student questionnaire. The questionnaires provided in different types of notebooks consisted of general questions and a questionnaire from one or two objective fields. One line in SPSS Statistics from the 2012 National Survey of Student Achievement coincides with the achievements or questionnaire answers of one particular student or a teacher. The information provided in databases is impersonal - a student or a teacher is identified based on code, without providing the class or school’s name. Each school that has participated in the 2012 National Survey of Student Achievement received a unique five-number school code. The code used for identifying the schools of both grade 4 and grade 8 students and teachers consists of a school code and the numbers identifying a class and a student. The class code in the student’s database coincides with the code in the teacher’s database. To connect these databases, the variable named “ID_klase” would have to be used as an identifier. Dataset "NSSA 2012: 8th Grade Students Study, 2012" metadata and data were prepared implementing project "Disparities in School Achievement from a Person and Variable-Oriented Perspective: A Prototype of a Learning Analytics Tool NO-GAP" from 2020 to 2023. Project leader is chief research fellow Rasa Erentaitė. Project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments, under measure’s No. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718 activity “Research Projects Implemented by World-class Researcher Groups to develop R&D activities relevant to economic sectors, which could later be commercialized” under a grant agreement with the Lithuanian Research Council (LMTLT).

研究目的：为学校、学生及其家长（监护人、养父母）提供公正的信息，以决策进一步改进教学与学习，涉及学生、教师、班级、学校、市政及国家层面。国家学生成就调查（NASA）的目标：收集信息以监控国家学生的成就，规划创新并实施以监控成功的创新；评估教育内容，并基于收集的数据确立学生成就标准；为学生和教师准备必要的工具（例如，标准化测试等），以进行他们工作成果的公正评估；为市政教育部门和学校校长准备必要的工具（例如，标准化测试等），以收集工作成果评估和活动规划所需的数据。国家学生成就调查自2002年首次实施起，由教育供应中心负责。由于经济原因，2009年至2011年未提供评估。2012年，重新实施的评估工作委托给了国家考试中心。自2019年9月2日起，国家教育署接管了国家考试中心的活动，并一直延续至今。在2012年的国家学生成就评估中，八年级学生收到了包含9种测试的笔记本。为了精确识别学生的个人特点以及家庭、班级和学校环境等，使用了学生问卷进行研究教育背景。每位学生只需填写一本笔记本，其中包含两个不同学科的测试和学生问卷。不同类型的笔记本中提供的问卷包括一般问题和来自一个或两个客观领域的问卷。SPSS Statistics中的2012年国家学生成就调查中的一行与特定学生或教师的成就或问卷答案相对应。数据库中提供的信息是非个人化的——学生或教师通过代码识别，而不提供班级或学校的名称。参与2012年国家学生成就调查的每所学校都收到了一个独特的五位数学校代码。用于识别四年级和八年级学生及教师的学校代码由学校代码和识别班级和学生的数字组成。学生在数据库中的班级代码与教师数据库中的代码相一致。为了连接这些数据库，必须使用名为“ID_klase”的变量作为标识符。数据集“NSSA 2012：八年级学生研究，2012”的元数据和数据是在2020年至2023年实施的“从个人和变量视角研究学校成就差异：学习分析工具原型NO-GAP”项目中准备的。项目负责人为首席研究员Rasa Erentaitė。该项目由欧洲区域发展基金根据2014-2020年欧盟资金投资运营计划资助，根据措施No. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718活动“由世界级研究团队实施的研究项目，以开发与经济部门相关的研发活动，这些活动可能后来实现商业化”下的赠款协议，由立陶宛研究委员会（LMTLT）资助。