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See below the full list of projects and the <a href="https://www.iea.nl/publications/other/rd-outcomes">available outcomes</a>.</p></div> <div class="panel panel-default accord-element"> <div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="heading-accord-elem-1209"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a class="collapsed" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#info-accord-1212" href="#collapse-accord-elem-1209" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-accord-elem-1209"> <div class="field field--name-field-header-of-accordeon-elemen field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Call 3:</div> </a> </h4> </div> <div id="collapse-accord-elem-1209" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="heading-accord-elem-1209"> <div class="panel-body"> <div class="field field--name-field-para-text-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Title and Authors</th><th>Status</th><th scope="col">Outcome</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>An Examination on the Performance of Sampling Variance Estimators in ILSAs</strong><br>Umut Atasever </td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Field Trial Sample Size </strong><br>Andr茅s Christiansen </td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Using Large Language Models for Automatic Item Generation: Development and Valudation for TIMSS Fourth Grade</strong><br>Marek Muszy艅ski </td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Approximate Areas of Interest for Enhance Understanding of Student Motivation and Task Interaction in IEA Assessments</strong><br>Artur Pokropek</td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Enhancing Cross-Cultural Comparisons in ILSAs: A Comprehensive Investigation and Guideline Development Using TIMSS 2019 Data</strong><br>Andr茅s Sandoval-Hern谩ndez </td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Dimensionality and Mode Effects in PIRLS 2016 and 2021: Evaluating the Comparability of Different Assessment Modes </strong><br>Rolf Strietholt</td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Gauging the Instructional Sensitivity of Ordinal Assessment Items </strong><br>Anne Taylor</td><td>Outcome Forthcoming</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel panel-default accord-element"> <div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="heading-accord-elem-1210"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a class="collapsed" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#info-accord-1212" href="#collapse-accord-elem-1210" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-accord-elem-1210"> <div class="field field--name-field-header-of-accordeon-elemen field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Call 2:</div> </a> </h4> </div> <div id="collapse-accord-elem-1210" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="heading-accord-elem-1210"> <div 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Data in Electronic Surveys </strong><br>Mojca Ro啪man, Andr茅s Christiansen, Rolf Strietholt, Jeppe Bundsgaard, Julian Fraillon, and Ronny Scherer </td><td>Published                   </td><td><a href="https://www.iea.nl/sites/default/files/2024-09/Data-Electronic-Surveys.pdf">Final report</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>To Mix or not to Mix Positively and Negatively Worded Items</strong><br>Isa Steinmann</td><td>Published</td><td><a href="https://www.iea.nl/sites/default/files/2024-04/To-Mix-or-Not-to-Mix-Positively-and-Negatively-Worded-Items.pdf">Final report</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Improving Parental Occupation Procedures with AI</strong><br>Daniel Duckworth and Julian Fraillon</td><td>Published</td><td><a href="https://www.iea.nl/sites/default/files/2024-09/Improving-Parental-Occupation-Coding-Procedures-AI.pdf">Final Report</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Operational Automatic Scoring of Text Responses in 2016 ePIRLS: Performance and Linguistic Variance</strong><br>Hyo Jeong Shin, Nico Andersen, Andrea Horbach, Euigyum Kim, Jisoo Baik, and Fabian Zehner</td><td>Published</td><td><a href="https://www.iea.nl/sites/default/files/2024-04/Operational-Automatic-Scoring-of-Text-Responses-ePIRLS.pdf">Final report</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel panel-default accord-element"> <div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="heading-accord-elem-1211"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a class="collapsed" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#info-accord-1212" href="#collapse-accord-elem-1211" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-accord-elem-1211"> <div class="field field--name-field-header-of-accordeon-elemen field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Call 1:</div> </a> </h4> </div> <div id="collapse-accord-elem-1211" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="heading-accord-elem-1211"> <div class="panel-body"> <div class="field field--name-field-para-text-text field--type-text-long 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