IEA Research for Educators

The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is an independent nongovernmental nonprofit cooperative of national research institutions and governmental research agencies that originated in Hamburg, Germany in 1958. For over 60 years, IEA has developed and conducted high-quality, large-scale comparative studies in education to support countries’ efforts to engage in national strategies for educational monitoring and improvement.

IEA’s comprehensive data provide an unparalleled longitudinal resource for researchers and educators. The founders of IEA viewed the world as a natural educational laboratory, where different school systems experiment in different ways to obtain optimal results from educating their youth. They assumed that if research could obtain evidence from across a wide range of systems, the variability would be sufficient to reveal important relationships that would otherwise escape detection within a single education system. They strongly rejected data-free assertions about the relative merits of various education systems and aimed to identify factors that would have meaningful and consistent influences on educational outcomes.

In line with this, this series of peer-reviewed publications is established to contribute to educational practices. The goal is to inspire educators by translating IEA research findings into evidence-based practice, and to foster engagement and conversation between researchers and practitioners.

More information about this series at https://www.springer.com/series/16856