Survey Operations Procedures

This chapter focuses on the survey operation procedures implemented for TALIS, including the materials and software that the International Study Centre (ISC) provided to all National Project Managers (NPMs). Other tasks of the NPMs as well as the three phases of the survey were explained in more detail in Chapter 1of this report. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement Data Processing Center (IEA DPC) had developed a series software packages for previous IEA surveys, and adapted them to fit the needs of TALIS. The chapter concludes with an explanation of the quality control checks at different levels which ensure the high quality of the TALIS data.