Cumulative Assessment Study on Mathematics in Rhineland-Palatinate: Competencies, Classroom Teaching Features, School Context (MARKUS)

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Data Set Published on 01.02.2008
Current Version Available Since 01.02.2008
Survey Period 2000
Sample Students in grade 8 (N= circa 39,000)
Survey Unit Students
Teachers
Measured Competencies Mathematics
Region Rhineland-Palatinate
Principal Investigators Helmke, Prof. Dr. Andreas
Jäger, Prof. Dr. Reinhold S.
Data Producers Helmke, Prof. Dr. Andreas
Jäger, Prof. Dr. Reinhold S.
Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Jugend und Kultur des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
Funded by Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education, Research, Youth, and Culture
Suggested Citation Jäger, R. S. & Helmke, A. (2008). Mathematik-Gesamterhebung Rheinland-Pfalz: Kompetenzen, Unterrichtsmerkmale, Schulkontext (MARKUS) [Cumulative Assessment Study on Mathematics in Rhineland-Palatinate: Competencies, Classroom Teaching Features, School Context (MARKUS)] (Version 1) [Data set]. Berlin: IQB – Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. http://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_MARKUS_v1
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Project description

MARKUS is an assessment study within the framework of school-quality monitoring in the German Land of Rhineland-Palatinate. It encompassed a survey of the mathematics performance of grade 8 students and the compilation of features related to learning and classroom teaching as well as to factors of situational context inside and outside school (questionnaires for students, teachers and school principals). (IQB)

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Documentation

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Literature

Selected literature is listed PDF here (as of March 2023).

2013

Wolff, C. A. (2013). Education, Development and Labor Markets - Dissertation. Stockholm School of Economics Göteborg.

2012

Legewie, J. (2012). Die Schätzung von kausalen Effekten. Überlegungen zu Methoden der Kausalanalyse anhand von Kontexteffekten in der Schule. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 64(1), 123–153. Verfügbar unter https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-012-0158-5

Legewie, J. & DiPrete, T. A. (2012). School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement. American Sociological Review, 77(3), 463–485. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122412440802

2011

Ponomarenko, V. (2011). Determinanten der Bildungsaspirationen von jugendlichen Migranten in Deutschland - Unveröffentlichte Diplomarbeit. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

2008

Projekt Markus - Skalendokumentation (2008). Verfügbar unter https://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/fdz/studies/MARKUS/MARKUSSkalendoku.pdf

Jäger, R. S. & Helmke, A. (2008). Mathematik-Gesamterhebung Rheinland-Pfalz: Kompetenzen, Unterrichtsmerkmale, Schulkontext (MARKUS) (Version 1) [Datensatz]. Berlin: IQB – Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. https://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_MARKUS_v1

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