With preparations underway for the #IEAIRC2027 in Bangkok, it feels like the perfect moment to look back at the incredible IRC 2025 in Rome. Take a moment to relive it here👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCiezEL97g&t=10s

🔦 Did you know? The TIMSS Insights series explores key education research topics using TIMSS maths & science data. 📘 The latest report from 2025 on school climate health introduces a new framework to understand how social systems in schools shape student outcomes. 🔗: www.iea.nl/publications...

🚨 New ICILS Compass Brief out today: 'Digital Natives—Reality or Myth?' 🔎 The realities of how meaningfully growing up surrounded by digital technology has shaped students’ Computer and Information Literacy skills might surprise you. 🧭 Have a read here: https://ow.ly/XLjl50Yf2I7

🚀 With today’s launch of the TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal international database, IEA invites proposals for a new open-access volume of our Research for Education series. Selected authors receive up to €40,000. ➡️ Details: https://ow.ly/mkh050Yelqo

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re spotlighting the #IEACompassBrief: Early learning activities matter for girls’ and boys’ math & science achievement. See how simple home activities are linked to stronger outcomes (#TIMSS2019) ➡️ https://ow.ly/glQa50YcNNX

📢 IEA is hiring in Hamburg & Amsterdam! From SQL Expert in the coding unit to project staff for German national education studies, there might be something here for you! Explore all open positions 👉 https://www.iea.nl/about/opportunities

🌍 IEA studies help strengthen education by deepening our understanding of how education systems work. Curious about how IEA studies work? This short 2-minute video breaks it all down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTAr5HX3W-Q

💡Supporting an open classroom environment is one way that teachers can encourage student's civic knowledge and their interest in civics ➡️ Check out our Teacher Snippet based on data from ICCS that suggests strategies for achieving such an open classroom climate: https://ow.ly/oooT50Ya7js

✨ Applications are open for the 2026 IEA Research Awards! 🏆 Choppin Award: outstanding master’s & PhD research using IEA data 🏆 Wolf Award: published work analysing IEA studies 📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026 🔗 https://ow.ly/ZZqw50Y9k95

🤔 How do large-scale education assessments shape policy? 🧭 This IEA Compass Brief uses Ireland as a case study, showing how TIMSS & PIRLS highlighted challenges—and helped drive change. 📑 https://ow.ly/Ftr850Y8O1Q 🎧 https://ow.ly/QfTq50Y8O1S Educational Research Centre

📣 IEA & the European Commission launch a new Research & Policy Grant for early-career researchers! 💡 €20,000 for 12 months to support policy-relevant research using IEA data (TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS). 📅 Apply by 31 March 2026👉 https://lnkd.in/dkUr4eTM

IEA and the European Commission have launched a new Research & Policy Grant for early career researchers, supporting policy-relevant studies using IEA data (TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS). 💶 €20,000 | 12 months 📅 Apply by 31 March 2026 🔗 More info: https://ow.ly/lYCT50Y86LF

⏰ The WERA Visiting Researcher Award 2026 is open! The award offers researchers in education the opportunity to spend six to eight weeks in Hamburg in 2026, hosted jointly by IEA Hamburg and the University of Hamburg. Deadline: 20 March 2026. 👉 Read more: https://ow.ly/8uib50Y7xzg

📸 Dana Kelly (Director LaNA) and Lydia Malley (Deputy Director ICILS) wrapping up a productive week in Washington DC. 🙌 They met with Matthew Soldner (Acting NCES Commissioner) Enis Dogan (IEA GA member for the US), and AIR and RTI about partnering to encourage state participation in ILSAs.

💭 Meaningful work, great team, and on the canal belt in Amsterdam (yes, that's our office in the picture...) Sounds good? This might be the place for you! 📢 We’re hiring a Communications Officer! 👉 https://ow.ly/mNaJ50Y5Oaa 📅 Apply by 16 Feb 💫 Repost to spread the word

➡️ Keeping Updated with ICILS, Keeping Updated with the Digital World 🖱️ What's the latest on ICILS 2028? AI, digital wellbeing and more... read the news here: https://ow.ly/XoHQ50Y4Zg2

⏰ Working on a submission for the special issue of the Large-scale Assessments in Education Journal - 'From Global Comparisons to Local Insights: Linking International Large-Scale Assessments with National Administrative Data'? 📅 Deadline coming soon: 31 January! Details: https://t.co/ceIIWr0DXW

Last week, Alec Kennedy from the IEA’s Research and Analysis unit had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the LESE (Lisbon Economics and Statistics of Education) Conference.🌍

🗣️"In education systems that participated in ICCS 2022, 40% of students reported ‘taking part in decision making about how the school is run’ but the share ranged from 22% in Croatia to 62% in Norway and 63% in Sweden." ➡️from 'UNESCO 2026 Youth Report: Lead with youth'

🗣️ ICCS 2022 reveals a gender gap in civic knowledge: in most countries, boys score lower than girls. Our latest IEA Compass Brief explains why this matters and what can be done. 🔗 https://www.iea.nl/publications/series-journals/iea-compass-briefs-education-series/october-2025-international-gender

📕 'Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Inequality' is Vol. 15 of IEA's Research for Education series. 🔎 It uses IEA data to examine the relationship between socioeconomic segregation between classrooms and student outcomes. Available to download freely here: https://ow.ly/S3SA50Y0EYp

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Gabriel Nagy on starting his IEA-supported professorship at the University of Hamburg! Building on decades of collaboration, the role strengthens joint research in international assessments and longitudinal studies. 🔎 https://online.flippingbook.com/view/590040492/78/

⏰ Are you planning to make a submission to present at ECER 2026? The deadline is coming up fast: 31 January! This year's conference is taking place in Tampere, Finland. 🔎 Find all the details on submissions here: https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2026-tampere/submission

📢 COMPIE 2026 takes place in Paris, 24–26 June, organized by the EC’s Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation. Paper submissions are open until 28 Feb, covering policy impact evaluation using counterfactual methods. 🔎 https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/event/compie-2026-conference_en

👉 Reading recommendation! 🔎 'How do we collect all this data?...' is a set of papers on ILSA data collection, with case studies from NZ, ZA, IE, IT & LV showing the need for thoughtful, flexible implementation to keep participation high across diverse contexts. ➡️ https://ow.ly/6Xg250XX5R0

📸 IEA’s Andrea Netten, Lauren Musu & Mar Puigbert met with our 2027 IRC hosts at Chulalongkorn University and Thailand’s Office of Education Council in Bangkok. Great discussions on themes and agenda—excited for what’s ahead! #IEAIRC2027

🤝 Today in Bangkok, IEA’s Andrea Netten and Lauren Musu met with Dr. Kraiyos Patrawart and the Equitable Education Fund team to share IEA’s mission and learn more about EEF’s important work in Thailand.

🌟 Applications for the IEA Research Awards 2026 are now open! 🏆 Choppin Award: outstanding master's theses or doctoral dissertations using IEA data 🏆 Wolf Award: published research including data from IEA studies 📅 Deadline to self-nominate: 31 March 2026 ➡️ Read more: https://ow.ly/pZpL50XVXHp

🚨Deadline Extended! 🚨 The open call for submissions for the new special issue of the Large-scale Assessments in Education Journal has had its deadline extended to 31 January 2026. Read all the details here: link.springer.com/collections/...

📘 In 2025, IEA released its second book for teachers: Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Digital World. The Research for Educators series turns IEA studies into practical classroom strategies. 💡 Why digital reading matters? Hear from co-author Eliane Segers.

📢 In 2025, two new volumes in the IEA Research for Education series have been published. The series is dedicated to investigating critical questions in educational research using data from IEA studies👉 https://www.iea.nl/news-events/news/iea-research-education-2025

🧭 With a focus on partnership and collaboration, three IEA Compass: Briefs in Education have been published this year. Find out more 👉 https://www.iea.nl/news-events/news/iea-compass-briefs-education-2025

🎉As we look back at the event highlights from 2025, we are grateful to our network members and partners for their work on improving education using IEA data and inviting us to participate in their events: https://www.iea.nl/news-events/news/iea-events-highlights-2025

The IEA team wishes everyone happy holidays and a fantastic beginning to the New Year to all who celebrate! Here's to a great 2026 —filled with excellent collaborations, innovative projects, and new approaches to educational research!

📑The LSAE has published over 35 articles this year! This open-access publication contributes to the science of large-scale assessments globally. Check out the articles published in 2025 👉https://link.springer.com/journal/40536/articles?filter-by-volume=13&sortBy=newestFirst

“TIMSS Longitudinal is an outstanding success. It reflects the collective achievement of all participating education systems in locating students and reassessing them.”— Matthias von Davier, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7RY8gwgS50

This week, IEA attended the 65th anniversary celebration of its Slovenian member, the Educational Research Institute. On this special occasion, IEA was honoured with a commemorative plaque in recognition of its contribution to the Institute’s mission. We are very grateful for this recognition.

🚨Deadline Extended! 🚨 The open call for submissions for the new special issue of the Large-scale Assessments in Education Journal has had its deadline extended to 31 January 2026. Read all the details here: link.springer.com/collections/...

💡 Key highlights from the TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal results in under 5 minutes 💡 Have a look now or save for later! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSGPDk9TvE&list=PLQOoi4F3sfzYqn5zV3L-Ro-r1kRo7xO7h

📈 TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal was launched last week, and we're excited to see how this rich new dataset will be used by the participating education systems to inform education policy and practice in the future. Read the full results here: https://ow.ly/SOmA50XJvs2

📢We are thrilled to announce the release of a new IEA Teacher Snippet, developed using data from TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal! Research suggests there is an association between students’ enjoyment of learning mathematics and their achievement, read the findings👉 www.iea.nl/publications...

🙌 Thank you to our wonderful hosts and our distinguished guests for joining us in Podgorica this morning. We are grateful for the successful collaboration over many months, and wonderful TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal release event. 📈 Read the full report ➡️ timss2023.org/longitudinal/results

📢 We're thrilled to announce that the TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal International Results in Mathematics and Science are officially available! Access the report and other resources here➡️ https://www.iea.nl/news-events/news/timss-2023-longitudinal-international-report-and-results-now-available #TIMSSL

📢One hour to go until the Launch of the #TIMSSL International Results! ➡️Join us for the livestreamed event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7RY8gwgS50

📢 TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal it's a ground-breaking study: the first student-level longitudinal extension of TIMSS. Join the livestream of the launch of the results! 📅 9 December 2025 🕙 10am CET 📝 Register: https://www.iea.nl/news-events/events/launch-timss-2023-longitudinal-international-results

🌟TIMSS Longitudinal results will be released on 9 December! #TIMSS2023 students were reassessed in mathematics and science one year later in 9 countries. 👉 Look at the agenda and register to join the livestream: https://iea.nl/news-events/events/launch-timss-2023-longitudinal-international-results

💫 The communications team at IEA Amsterdam is hiring! Do you know an experienced communicator with strong writing skills? With a natural ease in working with digital platforms? Might that person even be you? 📢 Please share, and apply before 15 January: https://www.iea.nl/about/opportunities

⏳It's nearly here - last few days to register for the livestream of the launch of the results of TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal! 📅 9 December 2025 🕙 10am Central European Time 📝 Register for the livestream : shorturl.at/oqykH

🔦 The European Commission released their 2025 Education and Training Monitor last month. It's a really interesting annual report with the latest facts and figures about EU education systems, and the tracked progress towards reaching 7 EU-level targets for education and training.

📢 TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal - the first-ever student-level longitudinal extension of TIMSS. 📅 9 December 2025 🕙 10am Central European Time 📝 Register for the livestream : https://shorturl.at/oqykH