Registration for the 10th IEA IRC (International Research Conference) is open. Join us and secure your place via Conftool. The call for submissions closes on Saturday, 31 December. Submit your proposal for consideration here. 

In every newsletter, we share a summary of how IEA studies have progressed in recent months. This includes an overview of IEA's flagship studies and other studies that IEA is a part of. 

Save the date for the release of the PIRLS 2021 International Report and Results. The online release will take place on Tuesday, 16 May 2023 at 10:00 Central European Summer Time. A detailed agenda and event speaker information will be shared in due course. 

Results from the second cycle of KWiK (Continuity and Change in Schools in Times of Crisis) reveal significant improvements in the digitization of schools in Germany. All results are summarized in an online brochure (DE only).  

The 63rd IEA General Assembly Meeting took place in Split, Croatia, for three days of collaborative, in-person sessions. Thank you to the National Centre for External Evaluation of Education for hosting the meeting.   

• As a valued member of the IEA network, Dr. Ina V.S. Mullis was elected as an Honorary Member of IEA at the 63rd General Assembly Meeting in recognition of her outstanding contribution to IEA.

• IEA offers researchers the opportunity to develop their research projects using the expertise of the Research and Analysis Unit at the IEA Hamburg office. Apply for the Academic Visitor Program by 31 December 2022. 

• IEA looks forward to attending a host of conferences next year, including CIES 2023, held in Washington, D.C., in February, and AERA, held in Chicago in April. Find out more on the IEA Events Calendar.  

The recently released PIRLS 2021 Encyclopedia presents a profile across PIRLS 2021 participating countries and benchmark systems, and shares selected findings across dedicated country chapters. 

In light of the increasing urgency of global environmental issues, TIMSS 2023 will feature context questionnaire items that aim to assess students' environmental attitudes and behaviors. These updates are described in the released supplement to the TIMSS 2023 framework.  

Using data from IEA's ICILS (International Computer and Information Literacy Study), the latest Compass Brief examines how the availability of ICT resources and participation in ICT-related professional development connected to an increase in teachers' use of ICT. 

There are two new IEA Teacher Snippets XL available. One highlights key principles for enhancing reading comprehension using an assignment from PIRLS, and the other reveals misconceptions students have about gravity using data from TIMSS. To adapt an IEA Teacher Snippet for your country, contact l.cheeseman@iea.nl

The IERI journal, Large-scale Assessments in Education, continues to publish regularly and has released 14 new articles since June 2022. Recent titles can be found here.

Leveraging Large-scale Assessments for Effective and Equitable School Practices: The Case of the Nordic Countries is the most recent Special Issue, which has published multiple articles this year.

IEA wishes you a restful end to 2022 and a successful start to 2023. More about the work of IEA over the past 12 months can be found in this year's IEA Insider.