NSSA 2014: 8th Grade Teachers of the Lithuanian Language Study, 2014

21.12137/JKZJSWNational Agency for EducationLT: LithuaniaNSSA 2014: 8th Grade Teachers of the Lithuanian Language Study, 2014Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2023Social Scienceseducational assessmentquality of educationeducational measurementsteachinglearningteacher-student relationshipschool-student relationshipsecondary school teachersschoolchildrenCompulsory and pre-school educationCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, LithuaniaŽvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and HumanitiesCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania2023-06-2320142022-06-082025-03-102014/2014Survey dataLiDA_SurveyData_0525535851661404819086650592application/x-gziptext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/x-gzipapplication/pdf2.2The purpose of the study: to provide impartial information for the school, its students, and their parents (caregivers, foster parents) about the achievements to make decisions on the further improvements of teaching and studying on student, teacher, class, school, municipality, and national level. The objectives of National Survey of Student Achievement (NASA): <ul> <li>to collect the information for monitoring the national students’ achievements, planning the novelties, and implementing the novelties for monitoring the success; <li>to evaluate the educational content, and substantiating students’ achievement criteria based on collected data; <li>to prepare the necessary tools (i.e., standardized tests, etc.) for students and teachers for the impartial evaluation of their work results; <li>to prepare the necessary tools (i.e., standardized tests, etc.) for the municipality’s education subdivisions and school principals for collecting the required data of work result assessments and planning of activities. </ul> National Survey of Student Achievement, first implemented in 2002, became the responsibility of the Education Supply Centre. Due to economic reasons, the assessments were not provided from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, the renewed assessment implementation was consigned to the National Examination Centre. Since the 2nd of September, 2019, the National Agency of Education took over the activities of the National Examination Centre and continues to carry them on to this day. In 2014, 5 NASA surveys were carried out. One line in SPSS Statistics from the 2014 National Survey of Student Achievement coincides with the achievements or questionnaire answers of one particular student or a teacher. The information provided in databases is impersonal - a student or a teacher is identified based on code, without providing the class or school’s name. Each school that has participated in the 2014 National Survey of Student Achievement received a unique five-number school code. The code used for identifying the schools of both grade 4 and grade 8 students and teachers consists of a school code and the numbers identifying a class and a student. The class code in the student’s database coincides with the code in the teacher’s database. To connect these databases, the variable named “ID_klase” would have to be used as an identifier. This dataset contains data from a survey of 8th grade teachers of the lithuanian language study. All the provided questionnaire answers from teachers appear in teacher databases from the 2014 National Survey of Student Achievement. The same questionnaire was given to all the teachers. The teacher questionnaire consisted of general questions (to analyse the educational context), as well as personal questions or questions about the objective field. Dataset "NSSA 2014: 8th Grade Teachers of the Lithuanian Language Study, 2014" metadata and data were prepared implementing project <a href="https://nogap.ktu.edu/english/" target="_blank"> "Disparities in School Achievement from a Person and Variable-Oriented Perspective: A Prototype of a Learning Analytics Tool NO-GAP"</a> from 2020 to 2023. Project leader is chief research fellow Rasa Erentaitė. Project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments, under measure’s No. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718 activity “Research Projects Implemented by World-class Researcher Groups to develop R&D activities relevant to economic sectors, which could later be commercialized” under a grant agreement with the Lithuanian Research Council (LMTLT).SPSS, 25Dataverse collection “National Surveys of Student Achievement” contains data of the National Surveys of Student Achievement (NSSA) conducted in Lithuania from 2002. The NSSA are nationwide studies of the learning achievements of students in schools providing general education, the results of which are used to regularly monitor and improve the state of secondary education, i.e., aiming to provide the necessary preconditions for ensuring the quality of general education and to foster a culture of progress in the assessment of students’ achievements. The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit). Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit). Vilnius, LithuaniaNational Examination Centre