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Designing Tasks. Defining Quality.

Supporting quality in practice - from school entry to the General Higher Education Entrance Qualification. Find all tasks and answer keys in the IQB task browser.

Excelling in Educational Research

Research at the IQB focuses on three key areas: optimising IQB assessment instruments and analytical methods, data-based instructional development, and responding to diversity in learning needs.

Equitable Education – Starting with the Youngest

The collaborative project “StarS – Starting Strong in Primary School” centres on the transition from early childhood education to primary school. StarS aims to give every child the best possible start to learning at school.

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The IQB in a nutshell – watch the video

What does good education actually mean? And what’s the IQB’s role in it? The short film shows how the IQB contributes to developing and securing quality in the general school system.

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Setting Standards

Educational standards specify the competences students are expected to achieve by certain stages in their education.

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Serving Schools

Methods such as StarS, VERA, and the IQB Trends in Student Achievement support data-informed improvement of school and teaching quality.

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What is VERA?

VERA are Nationwide Achievement Tests in Grades 3 and 8. They assess the extent to which students achieve the educational standards and indicate the areas in which teachers and schools need to make adjustments to instructional development before students enter lower and upper secondary education.

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Supporting quality in practice - from school entry to the General Higher Education Entrance Qualification

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