The Use of Test Scores in Secondary Analyses (MISS Article Collection)

Article Collection Editors: Marco Paccagnella (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, France), Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Matthias von Davier (Boston College, USA)

Aim of the MISS article collection on The Use of Test Scores in Secondary Analyses is to promote an inter-disciplinary dialogue between scholars who design the psychometric models used to estimate latent skills and researchers that use these data to investigate policy-relevant questions related to skills formation, skill utilisation and returns to skill. We invite researchers to submit theoretical and empirical work related to the following topics:

• Methods to estimate proficiency in large-scale assessments
• Methodological aspects related to the use of test scores in secondary analyses
• The use of latent class models and factor analysis in education and economics research
• Potential and limitations of causal inferences with cross sectional large scale survey data
• The scaling of cognitive assessments: implications for interpretation and comparability