Stichting IEA Secretariaat Nederland
Budget
€32,383,584
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
3
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
€2,456,020
Mission & Goals
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement is an international non-profit Association, established in 1967 in Belgium, with the non-profit purpose to direct, conduct, facilitate, promote, support and advance research into matters of education and educational achievement. Together with its Members, being national research institutions and governmental and non-governmental research agencies, the Association is a leading entity in the field of education, working on improving educational quality and equity by contributing to the advancement of evidence-based policies and practices worldwide. As the Association expanded, in 1996 all assets, funds and liabilities were subsequently transferred to Stichting IEA Secretariaat Nederland, acting as the Association’s Secretariaat, registered in 1994 as a Foundation in the Netherlands. The main objective of the Foundation are to promote, support and advance research into educational achievement.
EU Legislative Interests
Educational Policy, Key Competences, ECEC and LLL agendas IEA is deeply concerned in educational achievements worldwide: If custom and law define what is educationally allowable within a nation, the educational systems beyond one's national boundaries suggest what is educationally possible. (Arthur W. Foshay, Educational Achievements of Thirteen-Year-Olds in Twelve Countries, 1962) The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement became a legal entity in 1967, but its origins date back to 1958 when a group of scholars, educational psychologists, sociologists, and psychometricians met at the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss problems of school and student evaluation. They argued that effective evaluation requires examination of both the inputs to education and its outcomes (such as knowledge, attitudes, and participation). The founders of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement viewed the world as a natural educational laboratory, where different school systems experiment in different ways to obtain optimal results in the education of their youth, and IEA still assumes that if research could obtain evidence from across a wide range of systems, the variability would be sufficient to reveal important relationships, which would otherwise escape detection within a single education system. Until today we strongly reject data-free assertions about the relative merits of various education systems, and aim in identifying factors having meaningful and consistent influences on educational outcomes.
Communication Activities
STEM (mathematics and science at the grades 4, 8, and 12): TIMSS Reading literacy (grade 4): PIRLS Civic and Citizenship Education (grade 8): ICCS Digital Literacy (grade 8): ICILS Pandemic’s impact on global education (grade 8): REDS 21st century skills: 21CS MAP Early Childhood Education: ECES; and more
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
IEA fosters the establishment and growth of national expertise in assessment methodology and administration by delivering seminars and training for local staff engaged in national assessment activities. This promotes the development of evidence-based educational policies and practices, and a strong network of international collaboration and exchange. Some of our current and past partners include: ETS European Commission IDB OEI PASEC SACMEQ World Bank UNESCO Institute for Statistics UNESCO IIEP United Nations Development Programme West African Examinations Councils
Organisation Members
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement has more than 60 countries around the world as member institutions. For a full list of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's institutional members, please see the following link: https://www.iea.nl/about/members/institutional-member-and-participating-institutions Stichting IEA Secretariaat Nederland oversees International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's day-to-day operations related to membership, Studies, finance, compliance and communications.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.