PIRLS 2011 Schedule
2007
- SeptemberTIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center sends call for PIRLS 2011 passages to National Research Coordinators
2008
- February 17–221st
National Research Coordinators meeting, Madrid, Spain, to review procedures
for development and sampling, begin passage review, discuss updates
to the framework, special studies, and plans for item development
- July 30–Aug. 11st
Reading Development Group meeting, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, to review updated framework, review
and perfect passages for NRCs, and review draft item
and scoring guide development manual
- November 2–72nd National
Research Coordinators meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
to review the PIRLS framework and background questionnaires and select
final passages for field test item development, review background questionnaires,
and conduct item and scoring guide development workshop
- November 81st Questionnaire
Development Group meeting , Amsterdam, the
Netherlands,
to review and revise PIRLS 2011 contextual framework and
questionnaires
2009
- March 3–52nd Reading
Development Group meeting, Singapore, to review items
and scoring guides for the field test
- March 31–April 32nd
Questionnaire Development Group meeting, Munich, Germany,
to review and revise background questionnaires
- May 31–June 53rd National
Research Coordinators meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania,
to review all field-test materials and survey operations
- AugustPIRLS 2011 Framework printed and posted on web
2010
- Jan. 31–Feb. 54th National
Research Coordinators meeting, London, England, to
conduct training for scoring constructed-response items for
the field test
- March 1–April 15Conduct Field Test
- June 23–253rd Reading
Development Group meeting, Moscow, Russian Federation,
to review field–test results
and make recommendations for data collection
- July 14–163rd Questionnaire
Development Group meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia, to review field–test results and make recommendations for data collection
- July 18–235th National
Research Coordinators meeting, Zagreb, Croatia,
to review and finalize assessment materials for the
main data collection
- October–DecemberMain Data Collection (Southern Hemisphere)
- November 3–5Southern
Hemisphere training for constructed-response scoring,
Wellington, New
Zealand
2011
- February 13–186th
National Research Coordinators meeting, Rome, Italy,
to train Northern-Hemisphere countries in constructed-response
scoring
- March–JuneMain Data Collection (Northern Hemisphere)
- December 4–107th
National Research Coordinators meeting to review draft International
Report outline and graphics and table shells
- December NRCs send Encyclopedia chapters to TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center
2012
- May 14—164th Reading Development Group meeting to conduct scale anchoring of achievement data (Sweden)
- June 24—298th National Research
Coordinators meeting to review draft International Report—text,
graphics, and tables
- SeptemberPIRLS 2011 Encyclopedia published and posted on web
- December 11TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center/IEA conduct international press conference to release International Report
2013
- February 7TIMSS & PIRLS International
Study Center distributes final PIRLS 2011 International Database and User Guide to countries
- February 10—159th National Research Coordinator meeting to conduct training in use of PIRLS 2011 International Database
