Data processing team

The team members are involved in international and national research projects as experts of data collection and quantitative analysis methods. Their tasks include participation in research planning and data collection activities, quantitative analyses of research data, and contributing to reporting the results. The team members are involved in many international assessment studies (PISA, PIAAC, TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, TALIS, and Nord-Vet), and also in various projects drawing on the data sets collected in these international studies (ELINET, ELGPN and SkillsREAL) as well as in projects making use of national data sets (such as Prep21 and Innokomppi). The team provides expert assistance in statistical methods also for individual FIER researchers’ theses or dissertations and other studies. The team’s main methodological expertise is centred especially around quantitative analysis methods of assessment studies, statistical modelling, multilevel modelling, and issues of sampling. The team members are familiar with the following statistical software in particular: SPSS, SAS, R, Mplus and MLwiN.

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