Studi primari

Predicting university enrollment choices in Italy: a machine learning analysis of high school background and gender differences

Andrea Priulla, Alessandro Albano, Nicoletta D’Angelo, Massimo Attanasio (2025)

Population data Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 13

The different effects of covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll (2025)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Population data Inequalities Gender Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5

Linking unlinkable tests: a step forward

Silvia Testa, Renato Miceli, Renato Miceli (2025)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Sample data

Predicting italian students’ mathematics outcomes: a decision tree regression analysis

Daniel Doz, Darjo Felda, Mara Cotič (2025)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 10 Open data

Better than whom? methodological and substantial considerations emerged while going beyond a plain comparison of school performance in trentino and in nearby provinces

Argentin Gianluca, Chiara Tamanini, Loris Vergolini (2024)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Effect of economic, social and cultural status of students on English language learning and territorial differences

Paola D’Elia, Sabrina Girardi, Caterina Balenzano, Sergio Di Sano (2024)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Inequalities Underachieving Grade 8 Population data

A quantitative model for gender gap in G8 standardized mathematics tests in italian schools

Riccardo Orlando, Ottavio G. Rizzo (2024)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Population data

Sense of belonging at school and students with special educational needs: evidence from TIMSS 2019

Francesco Annunziata, Elisa Caponera, Laura Palmerio (2024)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 4 International survey data

The digital divide: a challenge for the schools

Rita Marzoli, Ornella Papa, Lorenzo Mancini (2024)

Geographical areas Inequalities Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Sample data

Do national and international surveys speak the same language?

Paola Giangiacomo, Patrizia Falzetti, Cecilia Bagnarol (2024)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Grade 10 International survey data

Linking student achievement to teacher assessment practices: issues, challenges, and implications for educational research and practice in Italy

Gianluca Argentin, Serafina Pastore (2024)

Learning improvement Teacher added-value Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Sample data

A new alliance: matching data and needs of local authorities

Maraviglia Lorenzo (2024)

Class / School segregation Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background School management Type of upper secondary school
Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13
Sub-section of the population data

La valutazione sperimentale del progetto “Orientare alla scelta”. Esiti di un RCT sulla riduzione degli effetti terziari nel consiglio orientativo

Elisa Manzella, Gianluca Argentin (2024)

Family background Inequalities Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Gli stranieri nel sistema formativo bresciano nell’anno formativo 2022/2023. Le conferme nei cambiamenti

Barabanti Paolo (2024)

Geographical areas Implicit drop-out Top performing students Migrant background Inequalities
Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13
Population data

Le disuguaglianze territoriali in Italia. Un’analisi delle differenze economiche, demografiche e socio-culturali tra Aree Interne e Centrali

Fiasconaro Sara, Triventi Moris, Fedeli Emanuele (2024)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 5 Sample data

Relazione tra competenze civiche e rendimento in lettura. Confronto tra i risultati IEA ICCS e le rilevazioni nazionali INVALSI

Elisa Caponera, Laura Palmerio (2024)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

La lettura dei dati INVALSI 2023 e la povertà educativa

Barabanti Paolo (2024)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Family background
Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 2 Grade 5
Sample data

L’“efficacia” del liceo matematico: evidenze dalle prove INVALSI

C. Bernardi, A. Gambini, S. Gubbiotti, F. Coppa, F. Ferretti, Mf. Mammana, D. Passaro, Fs. Tortoriello, F. Tovena (2024)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Type of upper secondary school
Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13
Sub-section of the population data

A ciascuna disciplina il suo risultato. Classi digitali vs. classi a didattica tradizionale: un confronto negli esiti degli apprendimenti

Brunella Fiore (2024)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10
Population data

Austerity harmed student achievement

Caterina Pavese, Enrico Rubolino (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities
Grade 5
Sample data

Deviant cases from expected performance: the role of expectations beyond socio-economic and cultural status

Matteo Bonanni, Iacopo Moreschini (2024)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Type of upper secondary school
Grade 10 Grade 11
International survey data

Schools that learn to improve student learning: the effectiveness of schools as PLCs

Angelo Paletta (2024)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Soft / Non-cognitive skills Underachieving Teaching characteristics
Grade 8
Sub-section of the population data

Leggere il fattore ESCS attraverso sguardi non semplificati: l’impatto dei contesti scolastici sui risultati INVALSI in matematica in un’analisi esplorativa su sei istituti secondari di primo grado

Alessandro Oro, Ira Vannini (2024)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8
Sub-section of the population data

Territorial inequalities in Italy. An analysis of economic, demographic and socio-cultural differences between inner and central Areas

Sara Fiasconaro, Moris Triventi, Emanuele Fedeli (2024)

Geographical areas Inequalities Grade 5 Population data

Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy

Fabrizio Bernardi (2024)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities
Grade 8
Population data

Montessori primary schools’ effectiveness: a quasi-experimental study on schooling outcomes

Stefano Scippo (2024)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading
Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8
Population data

Tackling the gender gap in mathematics with active learning methodologies

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Dalit Contini, Dalila De Rosa, Francesca Ferrara, Daniela Piazzalunga, Ornella Robutti (2024)

Class size Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths School added-value
Grade 2 Grade 3
Sub-section of the population data

Computer user profiles in early adolescence and digitally assessed mathematics: a latent class analysis

Marta Desimoni, Donatella Papa, Cristina Lasorsa, Michela Milioni, Rosalba Ceravolo (2024)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Soft / Non-cognitive skills
Grade 8
Sample data

Costruire indicatori per operativizzare la complessità sociale. Un esempio di costruzione e applicazione a partire dai dati del questionario insegnante di matematica – INVALSI

Paolo Barabanti, Patrizia Giannantoni, Giuseppina Le Rose (2024)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teaching characteristics
Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13
Sample data

The validity and reliability of the INVALSI questionnaire about math test-taking anxiety and math enjoyment

Daniel Doz (2024)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Sample data

Young people’s civic engagement in Italy: evidence on grade 8 students from the international civic and citizenship education study (ICCS) 2016

Valeria Damiani , Elisa Caponera , Bruno Losito , Laura Palmerio and Gabriella Agrusti (2024)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

School dropout in Italy: a secondary analysis on statistical sources starting from primary school

Rosa Vegliante, Alfonso Pellecchia, Sergio Miranda and Antonio Marzano (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

E-learning engagement gap during school closures: differences by academic performance

Josep Amer-Mestre, Alaitz Ayarza-Astigarraga & Marta C. Lopes (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Bayesian multilevel bivariate spatial modelling of italian school data

Leonardo Cefalo, Alessio Pollice & Virgilio Gómez – Rubio (2025)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Jointly exploring mathematics ability and speed in large-scale computer-based testing

Luca Bungaro, Marta Desimoni, Mariagiulia Matteucci & Stefania Mignani (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

The stricter the better? The impact of early teacher grading standards on students’ competences development and academic track enrollment

Ilaria Lievore, Emanuele Fedeli, Moris Triventi (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Measuring the effect of the sociocultural background on learning outcomes by a simplified and effective index

Clelia Cascella (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Young people’s literacy, numeracy achievements, and the school-to-work transition: a longitudinal study of regional variation

Enrico Ripamonti (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Factors affecting students’ performance on national assessments of mathematics in Italy: a random forest approach

Daniel Doz (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Immigrant proportion and ethno-linguistic diversity in the classroom: consequences for children’s well-being, social integration, and academic competencies

Emanuele Fedeli And Moris Triventi (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Drivers of school choice: primary school selection in a free choice context

Andrea Parma, Tommaso Agasisti, Costanzo Ranci (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Would you follow the advice? The effect of school guidance on students’ academic success

Tommaso Agasisti, Filippo Bolzoni & Mara Soncin (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Nati diversi la scuola compensa le disuguaglianze di apprendimento?

Gian Paolo Barbetta, Luca Stella, Lorenzo Vaiani (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Interpreting the gap between foreign and native speaker students in national standardised assessment

Marta Barbero, Clelia Cascella, Chiara Giberti, Matteo Viale (2024)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

MigraREport 2023, Brescia città delle culture

Maddalena Colombo, Mariagrazia Santagati (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Assessing the predictive capability of INVALSI tests on high school final mark

Silvia Bacci, Bruno Bertaccini, Alessandra Petrucci, Valentina Tocchioni (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

The joint estimation of accuracy and speed: an application to the INVALSI data

Luca Bungaro, Marta Desimoni, Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Does taking additional maths classes in high school affect academic outcomes?

Andrea Priulla, Martina Vittorietti, Massimo Attanasio (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Uncovering the interplay of territorial, socioeconomic, and demographic factors in high school to university transition

Andrea Priulla, Martina Vittorietti, Vincenzo Giuseppe Genova (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

The short-and medium-term effects of full-day schooling on learning and maternal labor supply

Giulia Bovini, Nicolò Cattadori, Marta De Philippis, Paolo Sestito (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Managerial practices and student performance: evidence from changes in school principals

Adriana Di Liberto, Ludovica Giua, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri, Giovanni Sulis (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Some insights on the relationship between student performance and test related emotional aspects

Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani, Giada Spaccapanico Proietti (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

Territories and educational poverty: differences and characteristics and new challenges

Tommaso Agasisti, Sergio Longobardi, Vincenzo Prete, Felice Russo (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement
Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13
Population data

The influence of socio-economic-cultural background on academic results in the INVALSI tests of italian and mathematics in two southern regions: puglia and abruzzo

Caterina Balenzano, Sergio Di Sano (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Digital and informative skills: the differences between students and the role of the school

Ornella Papa, Rita Marzoli, Sara Manganelli (2023)

Family background Gender Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

Prove INVALSI 2023: uno sguardo agli apprendimenti di studenti e studentesse nella scuola primaria

Paolo Barabanti (2023)

Family background Gender Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

Gli stranieri nel sistema formativo bresciano. Analisi dei dati 2021/2022 e conseguenze post-pandemiche

Paolo Barabanti (2023)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10
Grade 13 Population data

Reading comprehension in L2 italian: connecting psycholinguistic research and pedagogical practice

Francesca Festi (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 1 Grade 4 Grade 5 Sample data

Relazioni sincrone e longitudinali tra comprensione del testo e risoluzione dei problemi matematici nelle classi seconda e quinta della scuola primaria: confronto tra bambini nativi italiani e bambini provenienti da contesti migratori

Lena Traversari (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

La didattica digitale integrata: una lettura attraverso il questionario insegnante INVALSI

Paolo Barabanti (2023)

Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Sample data

Bilingual and non-bilingual classes at primary school in Italy results from a standardised national test

Francesca Costa, Cristina Mariotti (2023)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Grade 5 Sub-section of the population data

Le Prove INVALSI 2023: un’analisi secondaria per la scuola primaria che suggerisce azioni di miglioramento

R. Tammaro, D. Gragnaniello (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Implicit drop-out Inequalities Learning improvement Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

A causal latent transition model with multivariate outcomes and unobserved heterogeneity: application to human capital development

Francesco Bartolucci, Fulvia Pennoni, Giorgio Vittadini (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Reliability of the g factor over time in Italian INVALSI data (2010-2022): What can achievement-g tell us about the Flynn effect?

Jakob Pietschnig, Sandra Oberleiter, Enrico Toffalini, David Giofrè (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Tracking and academic prospects

D. Checchi, T. Frattini (2023)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Implicit drop-out Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Population data

Mixed-effect models with trees

Anna Gottard, Giulia Vannucci, Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 8 Sample data

Higher education enrollment: the role of information and stereotypes

Maria De Paola, Antonio Filippin (2023)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 13 Population data

The role of metaphors in interpreting students’ difficulties in operating with percentages: a mixed method study based on large scale assessment

Chiara Giberti, George Santi, Camilla Spagnolo (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Sample data

Low-achievement risk assessment with machine learning

Andrea Zanellati, Stefano Pio Zingaro, Maurizio Gabbrielli (2023)

Underachieving Grade 5 Grade 10 Population data

Mens sana in corpore sano: the effects of sport on children’s learning in Italy

Mario Nosvelli (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Population data

The heterogeneity of covid-19 learning loss across italian primary and middle schools

Alice Bertoletti, Marta Cannistrà, Mara Soncin, Tommaso Agasisti (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Population data

Where the north-south gap in human capital begins: an analysis of educational outcomes across the italian regions

Paola Nardone, Iacopo Odoardia, Assia Liberatoreb, Dario D’Ingiullo (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 10 Sample data

Random forest regression in predicting students’ achievements and fuzzy grades

Daniel Doz,Mara Cotič,Darjo Felda (2023)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teacher added-value Type of upper secondary school Grade 13 Population data

Covid-19 and inequalities in educational achievement in Italy

Francesca Borgonovi, Alessandro Ferrara (2023)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

Le scuole secondarie di secondo grado paritarie: nuove prospettive alla luce delle prove INVALSI 2019

Andrea Bendinelli, Angela Martini (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 10 Population data

Ability composition in the class and the school performance of immigrant students

Elena Meschi, Caterina Pavese (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 8 Sample data

Immigration and teacher bias towards students with an immigrant background

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola (2022)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Migrant background Teacher added-value Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Assessing maths learning gaps using italian longitudinal data

Silvia Bianconcini, Stefania Mignani, Jacopo Mingozzi (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Learning improvement Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Grade 13 Population data

Measuring teachers’ readiness to use ICT before the covid-19 pandemic in Italy

Antonella D’Agostino, Sergio Longobardi, Giuseppe Migali, Felice Russo (2022)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Teacher added-value Teaching characteristics Grade 10 Sample data

Social inclusion of immigrant children at school: the impact of group, family and individual characteristics, and the role of proficiency in the national language

Cavicchiolo E., Manganelli S., Bianchi D., Biasi V., Lucidi F., Girelli L., Alivernini F. (2023)

Family background Gender Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Population data

Organised crime and educational outcomes in southern Italy: An empirical investigation

Marina Cavalieri, Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Calogero Guccio (2023)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded? A multilevel analysis of student–teacher matched data

Ilaria Liveore, Moris Triventi (2022)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Teacher added-value Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Demographic factors affecting fuzzy grading: a hierarchical linear regression analysis

Daniel Doz, Darjo Felda, Mara Cotič (2023)

Teacher added-value Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Open data

The educational effects of emergency remote teaching practices—the case of covid-19 school closure in Italy

Alice Bertoletti, Mara Soncin, Marta Cannistrà, Tommaso Agasisti (2023)

Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Teacher added-value Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sample data

Factors influencing teachers’ grading standards in mathematics

Daniel Doz (2023)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teacher added-value Type of upper secondary school Grade 13 Population data

Computer and information literacy at the eighth grade: differences between boys and girls

Elisa Caponera, Francesco Annunziata, Laura Palmerio (2022)

Gender Learning improvement Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

L’esame di “maturità” e le prove INVALSI

Patrizia Falzetti, Angela Martini (2022)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Type of upper secondary school Grade 13 Population data

Incorrect responses to the national assessment of mathematics: gaining insights into mathematical proficiency at middle school

Francesca Ferrara, Stefania Pozio (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sample data

I costrutti di didattica della Matematica come chiave di lettura di alcune evidenze statistiche nelle prove INVALSI

Ferretti Federica, Giberti Chiara, Lemmo Alice, Chiara Giberti (2020)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Effetto della classe sugli alunni deboli e forti

Angela Martini, Andrea Bendinelli (2022)

Class size Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Population data

Do schools have the same probability of adding value to competencies of their students at the entrance?

Chiara Sacco, Angela Martini (2022)

Implicit drop-out Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Population data

Detecting the achievements in INVALSI national surveys of students who followed educational innovations: a five step method

Stefano Scippo (2022)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

INVALSI data: a source to improve our knowledge of digital divide among students

Lorenzo Maraviglia (2022)

Family background Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Grade 10 Other: Sub section of the population data population data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano nel 2021. Partecipazione, apprendimenti ed effetti della pandemia

Paolo Barabanti (2022)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 13 Population data

Is the proportion of immigrant children in italian schools directly or indirectly associated with educational performances?

Margherita Maria Pagliuca, Sergio Longobardi, Giuseppe Gabrielli, Alessio Buonomo (2022)

Migrant background Grade 8 Sample data

Il divario di genere in matematica

Paolo Barabanti (2022)

Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Sample data

Perdita degli apprendimenti nella scuola secondaria di I grado: un’analisi dei dati INVALSI

Paolo Barabanti (2022)

Dare a tutti le stesse opportunità: evoluzione delle dotazioni tecnologiche delle famiglie italiane durante l’emergenza sanitaria da covid-19

Veronica Riccardi, Silvia Donno, Cecilia Bagnarol (2022)

Geographical areas Learning improvement Grade 5 Population data

Implicit stereotypes in teachers’ track recommendations children

Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti (2022)

Class / School segregation Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Goals and gaps: educational careers of immigrant children

Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti (2022)

Class / School segregation Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading
Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Sub-section of the population data

Non-cognitive skills and cognitive skills to measure school efficiency

Giorgio Vittadini, Caterina Sturaro, Giuseppe Folloni (2022)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Digital device and mathematics: multilevel vs machine learning models for value-added ranking in Italy

Donatella Papa (2022)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Underachieving Grade 7 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Student low achievement prediction

Andrea Zanellati, Stefano Pio Zingaro, Maurizio Gabbrielli (2022)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 10 Population data

Equally performing, unfairly evaluated: the social determinants of grade repetition in italian high schools

Guido Salza (2022)

Family background Migrant background Regular school trajectory Type of upper secondary school Grade 8 Grade 9 Sub-section of the population data

Stability of Italian Regional Intelligence Differences for 150 Years

Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Davide Piffer (2022)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Open data

In Italy, north-south differences in student performance are mirrored by differences in polygenic scores for educational attainment

Davide Piffer, Richard Lynn (2022)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice

Clelia Cascella, Julian Scott Williams, Maria Pampaka (2021)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 10 Population data

Academic self-concept change in junior high school students and relationships with academic achievement

Enrico Perinelli, Francesco Pisanu, Daniele Checchi, Laura Francesca Scalas, Franco Fraccaroli (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 4 Grade 7 Sample data

Emotional response to testing in gifted and highly gifted children

Cesare Cornoldi, David Giofrè, Enrico Toffalini (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Population data

Adolescents’ characteristics and peer relationships in class: a population study

Elisa Cavicchiolo, Fabio Lucidi , Pierluigi Diotaiuti, Andrea Chirico, Federica Galli, Sara Manganelli, Monica D’Amico, Flavia Albarello, Laura Girelli, Mauro Cozzolino, Maurizio Sibilio, Arnaldo Zelli, Luca Mallia, Sara Germani, Tommaso Palombi, Dario Fegatelli, Marianna Liparoti, Laura Mandolesi, Fabio Alivernini (2022)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 10 Population data

Interpreting difficulties in the learning of algebraic inequalities, as an emerging macro-phenomenon in large scale assessment

Federica Ferretti, George Richard Paul Santi, Giorgio Bolondi (2022)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 10 Sample data

Efficiency in education: primary and secondary schools in italian regions

Valentina Chiariello, Francesca Rotondo, Domenico Scalera (2021)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Open data

The development of cognitive and noncognitive skills in students in the autonomous Province of Trento

Giorgio Vittadini, Giuseppe Folloni, Caterina Sturaro (2022)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Network analysis of early school dropouts’ risk factors in Italy

Chiara Sacco, Giuseppina Le Rose (2022)

Implicit drop-out Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Population data

Assessing students’ mathematical knowledge with fuzzy logic

Daniel Doz, Darjo Felda, Mara Cotič (2022)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teaching characteristics Grade 13 Sample data

School climate and academic performance of italian students: The role of disciplinary behaviour and parental involvement

Sergio Longobardi, Margherita Maria Pagliuca, Andrea Regoli (2022)

Beyond text comprehension: exploring items’ characteristics and their effect on foreign students’ disadvantage in mathematics

Clelia Cascella, Chiara Giberti, Matteo Viale (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Population data

Beyond text comprehension: exploring items’ characteristics and their effect on foreign students’ disadvantage in mathematics

Clelia Cascella, Chiara Giberti (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8

Combining students’ grades and achievements on the national assessment of knowledge: a fuzzy logic approach

Daniel Doz, Darjo Felda, Mara Cotič (2022)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Sample data

Understanding why immigrant children underperform: evidence from Italian compulsory education

Moris Triventi, Eleonora Vlach, Elisa Pini (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

Grading practices, gender bias and educational outcomes: evidence from Italy

Adriana Di Liberto, Laura Casula, Sara Pau (2021)

Gender Inequalities Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

Scuola: tra i 10 e i 16 milioni di bambini nel mondo rischiano di non tornare sui banchi a causa del covid-19. In Italia gravi conseguenze sull’apprendimento: +2,5% di “dispersione implicita”

Save the Children (2021)

Implicit drop-out Inequalities Grade 13 Population data

Le competenze degli studenti eccellenti

Paolo Barabanti (2021)

Issues in prior achievement adjustment for value added analysis: an ap plication to Invalsi tests in Italian schools

Bruno Arpino, Silvia Bacci, Leonardo Grilli, Raffaele Guetto, Carla Rampichini (2019)

Class size Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background Regular school trajectory School management Grade 5 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Random effects regression trees for the analysis of INVALSI data

Giulia Vannucci, Anna Gottard, Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

TIMSS Mathematics achievement, school grades and national test scores: different or similar measures of student learning?

Laura palmerio, Elisa Caponera (2020)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 4 Type of upper secondary school Grade 8 International survey data

Does monitoring deter future cheating? the case of external examiners in italian schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 5 Population data

The effect of school rank on personality traits

Laura Pagani, Simona Comi, Federica Origo (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Asimmetrie di genere: evidenze empiriche alla luce dei nuovi dati delle prove INVALSI di Inglese

Andrea Bendinelli, Angela Martini, Maria Carmela Russo (2021)

Geographical areas Gender Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

I divari territoriali nelle competenze degli studenti (territorial gaps in student achievement)

Giulia Bovini, Paolo Sestito (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Effetto scuola o effetto classe?

Andrea Bendinelli, Angela Martini (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Re per una notte? Uno studio longitudinale sugli studenti top performers nelle diverse rilevazioni nazionali INVALSI

Paolo Barabanti (2021)

Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Quanto conosciamo i nostri studenti? Il contributo del modello di Rasch

Clelia Cascella, Giorgio Bolondi (2021)

Grade 10 Sample data

Funziona ancora l’ascensore sociale?

Francesco Orlando, Paolo Davoli (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Istruzione e mobilità sociale: l’ipotesi di Boudon

Angela Martini, Patrizia Falzetti (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 8 Grade 9 Sub-section of the population data

Il capitale culturale familiare degli studenti nativi e immigrati. Un’analisi sull’accesso alla scuola secondaria di II grado

Tiziano Gerosa, Marco Romito (2021)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value Grade 10 Population data

“Qual è il titolo di studio più alto che pensi di ottenere?”. Gli studenti stranieri di fronte alle scelte scolastiche in Italia

Veronica Riccardi, Patrizia Giannantoni, Giuseppina Le Rose (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 10 Population data

Another brick in the wall: uno studio empirico sulla costruzione sociale della dispersione scolastica

Lorenzo Maraviglia (2021)

Inequalities Migrant background Grade 10 Population data

Geographical differences in italian students’ english test performance: a role of individual and local characteristics

Jana Kopecna, Cecilia Bagnarol, Silvia Donno, Michele Marsili (2021)

Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 8 Population data

How important is the time spent with children on their performance?

Valeria F. Tortora, Patrizia Giannantoni, Paola Giangiacomo (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 2 Grade 4 Grade 5 Population data

Vocational education and training courses in trentino Using INVALSI data

Chiara Tamanini, Mattia Oliviero, Luciano Covi (2021)

Family background Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Finding Forrester. An empirical study on foreign students pe-nalty in italian highs chools

Lorenzo Maraviglia (2021)

Inequalities Migrant background Grade 10 Population data

Data on learning and teacher decision-making. An “italian marriage”?

Serafina Pastore, Cataldo Scarnera, Lucia Pallucca (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Sub-section of the population data

The INVALSI data for the 2030 Agenda

Barbara Baldazzi (2021)

Inequalities Learning improvement Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Cross-cohort changes in indicators of tolerance among italian youth

Maria Magdalena Isac, Laura Palmerio, Elisa Caponera (2021)

Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

Assessment of differential item functioning: first comparisons on INVALSI test and some policy implications

Simone Del Sarto, Michela Gnaldi (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Sample data

Territorial inequalities in education: some aspects related to the territory

Emiliano Campodifiori, Patrizia Falzetti, Michele Marsili (2021)

Geographical areas Inequalities Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Grade 13 Population data

Targeting students with high risk of dropping out of school: a latent profile analysis

Giuseppina Le Rose, Chiara Sacco (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Math gender gap according to socio-economic background in Italy: the better the conditions the larger the gap?

Patrizia Giannantoni, Veronica Pastori, Cecilia Bagnarol (2021)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Population data

INVALSI tests and the Italian territory: a comparison between native and foreign students of grade 8

Jana Kopecna, Francesca Leggi, Maria Carmela Russo (2021)

Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 8 Population data

Immigrant performance towards reading in OECD PISA 2018

Paola Giangiacomo, Valeria F. Tortora (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 10 Sample data

Gender asymmetries: an analysis of the trend from l to ll cycle of education

Andrea Bendinelli, Michele Cardone, Patrizia Falzetti (2021)

Gender Learning improvement Grade 8 Population data

Doing school but not at school: territorial peculiarities and socio-economic inequalities in access to distance learning

Cecilia Bagnarol, Silvia Donno, Veronica Riccardi (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 5 Population data

Quando la biblioteca scolastica fa la differenza: risultati di uno studio sul studio sul rendimento degli studenti con diverso backgroundsocio-economico e culturale

Rita Marzoli, Ornella Papa (2019)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 5 Grade 10 Sample data

L’utilizzo dei modelli IRT multidimensionali per la costruzione di profili di studenti

Simone Del Sarto (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sample data

Il valore aggiunto in classe: un’ipotesi di approfondimento a partire dai dati del questionario insegnante INVALSI

Giuseppina Le Rose, Patrizia Falzetti (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 6 Population data

Alcuni fattori che concorrono a determinare le disuguaglianze di genere in TIMSS 2015

Valeria F. Tortora, Paola Giangiacomo (2021)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 8 International survey data

L’impatto del livello dei servizi scolastici complementari sui livelli di apprendimento degli alunni: il caso dei comuni italiani

Tommaso Agasisti, Simona Ferraro, Francesco Porcelli, Mara Soncin (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Analisi territoriale sugli apprendimenti scolastici: un focus sulle realtà del Sud d’Italia

Cecilia Bagnarol, Silvia Donno, Michele Marsili (2021)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Nuove attività di learning, aspirazioni professionali e diseguaglianze sociali

Fiorenzo Parziale (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Inequalities Migrant background School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 10 International survey data

The impact of educational and organisational variables on the INVALSI school effect: findings from Puglia ; L’impatto delle variabili didattiche e organizzative sull’effetto-scuola INVALSI: le risultanze pugliesi

Perla, L.; Vinci, V.; Soleti, P. (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Structured task vs open-ended task: effects on students’ achievement in italian language ; prova strutturata vs prova con svolgimento aperto: gli effetti sul rendimento degli studenti in italiano

Giuseppina Le Rose, Veronica Riccardi (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 8 Population data

Quantifying solid findings in mathematics education: loss of meaning for algebraic symbols

Giorgio Bolondi, Federica Ferretti (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 10 Sample data

Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: a selection or a causal effect? evidence from the italian case

Moris Triventi, Carlo Barone, Marta Facchini (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Population data

When gender matters: a study of gender differences in mathematics

Ferrara Francesca, Ferrari Giulia, Robutti Ornella, Contini Dalit, Di Tommaso Maria Laura (2021)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 2 Sample data

Multigrading and child achievement

Gian Paolo Barbetta, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Gilberto Turati (2021)

Class size Geographical areas Learning improvement Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Socioeconomic inequality and regional disparities in educational achievement: The role of relative poverty

Vittorio Daniele (2021)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 10 International survey data

Evaluating class and school effects on the joint student achievements in different subjects: a bivariate semiparametric model with random coefficients

Chiara Masci, Francesca Ieva, Tommaso Agasisti, Anna Maria Paganoni (2021)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 5 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Changing the order of factors does not change the product but does affect students’ answers, especially girls’ answers

Clelia Cascella, Chiara Giberti, Giorgio Bolondi (2021)

Class / School segregation Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Interactive feedback for learning mathematics in a digital learning environment

Alice Barana,Marina Marchisio, Matteo Sacchet (2021)

Family background Learning improvement Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Spatial variations of school-level determinants of reading achievement in Italy

Chiara Sacco, Patrizia Falzetti (2021)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Regular school trajectory Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Merit pay for schoolteachers in Italy, 2015–2016: a new regime of education accountability?

Daniele Checchi, Paola Mattei (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Population data

The properties of powers: didactic contract and gender gap

Federica Ferretti, Chiara Giberti (2021)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 10 Sample data

Some unpleasant consequences of testing at length

Giorgio Brunello, Angela Crema, Lorenzo Rocco (2021)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Local governments’ efficiency and educational results: empirical evidence from italian primary schools

Simona Ferraro, Tommaso Agasisti, Francesco Porcelli, Mara Soncin (2021)

Class size Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background School added-value Grade 5 Population data

Precision and stability of schools’ value-added estimates: evidence for italian primary schools

Tommaso Agasisti, Veronica Minaya (2021)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Performance assessment of upper secondary schools in italian regions using a circular pseudo-Malmquist index

Ana S. Camanho, Luisa Varriale, Flávia Barbosa, Thiago Sobral (2021)

Class size Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background School added-value School management Type of upper secondary school Grade 13 Sample data

Differences and similarities in adolescents’ academic motivation across socioeconomic and immigrant backgrounds

Sara Manganelli, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Fabio Lucidi, Federica Galli, Mauro Cozzolino, Andrea Chirico, Fabio Alivernini (2021)

Family background Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Sample data

Impact of early childcare on immigrant children’s educational performance

Luca Corazzini, Elena Meschi, Caterina Pavese (2021)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 5 Population data

Investigating gender differences in mathematics by performance levels in the italian school system

Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2021)

Gender Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Going beyond test scores: the gender gap in italian children’s mathematical capability

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan, Silvia Mendolia (2021)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 10 Population data

What do we know about preschool quality in Italy? preschool effects on child outcomes: a pseudo-longitudinal Exploration

Cristina Stringher, Clelia Cascella (2021)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Short and medium-term effects of bullying on academic achievement in Italy

Elena Demuru, Patrizia Giannantoni, Jana Kopecna (2021)

Learning improvement Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

A comparison of regression tree-based features selection methods for the prediction of academic performances

Lorenzo Mancini, Chiara Sacco (2021)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background School added-value Grade 8 Sample data

Un’analisi longitudinale dei dati INVALSI di Matematica di una stessa coorte di allievi alla scuola primaria

Monica Panero (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths
Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

A mixed approach to interpret large-scale assessment psychometric results of the learning of mathematics = Un approccio misto all’interpretazione dei risultati psicometrici delle valutazioni su larga scala dell’apprendimento della matematica

Giorgio Bolondi, Clelia Cascella (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 10 Population data

Nati per Leggere. Valutazione d’impatto. Gli effetti sulle competenze degli studenti di scuola primaria in Piemonte

Giovanni Abbiati, Paola Monti, Paolo Pinotti (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Population data

Il Sistema nazionale di valutazione e l’uso dei risultati delle Rilevazioni nazionali INVALSI nelle scuole: quali cambiamenti?

Michela Freddano, Serafina Pastore (2020)

Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Un’analisi sulla bontà di adattamento di tre modelli IRT multidimensionali ai dati INVALSI di Matematica

Simone Del Sarto (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sample data

Differential privacy: a technique to exploit the wealth of information respecting the protection of personal data

Luca Oneto, Anna Siri, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi (2020)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Metodi di valutazione dell’item parameter drift nelle indagini su larga scala: uno studio empirico sulla prova àncora INVALSI di Italiano

Marta Desimoni, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Antonella Costanzo, Carlo Di Chiacchio (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 5 Sample data

Using R for INVALSI Data statistical analysis

Mirko Labbri (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano nel 2019. Partecipazione, traguardi e coinvolgimento delle famiglie

Paolo Barabanti (2020)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Population data

Topics in the economics of education and immigration

Caterina Pavese (2020)

Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Essays in economics of education

Giorgio Monti (2020)

Geographical areas Learning improvement Grade 8 Sample data

Istruzione e diseguaglianze sociali nel Veneto

Angela Martini (2020)

Class size Family background Gender Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Sample data

Prove INVALSI: l’opinione di dirigenti scolastici e insegnanti

Paolo Barabanti (2020)

Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Linguistic variability of the answers to open-ended questions of reading literacy in the computer based INVALSI tests

Eliana Leonetti, Matteo Viale (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Population data

Progetti educativi in aree interne, valutazione e apprendimento situato. Una riflessione di metodo

Daniela Luisi (2020)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

STEM disciplines teaching in Italy ; L’insegnamento delle discipline STEM in Italia

Stefano Scippo, Manuela Montebello, Donatella Cesareni (2020)

Gender Inequalities Learning improvement Teacher added-value Not applicable International survey data

Intersectional effects of socioeconomic status, phase and gender on mathematics achievement

Clelia Cascella (2019)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths

School infrastructure spending and educational outcomes: evidence from the 2012 earthquake in northern Italy

Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove, Giovanna D’Inverno, Marco Modica (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 10 Sample data

School principals’ managerial behaviours and students’ achievement: An empirical analysis of italian middle schools

Tommaso Agasisti, Patrizia Falzetti, Mara Soncin (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Grade 6 Grade 8 Open data

An analysis of differential item functioning on INVALSI tests, designed to explore gender gap in mathematical tasks

Clelia Cascella, Chiara Giberti, Giorgio Bolondi (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Gender Sample data Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8

A population level analysis of the gender gap in mathematics: Results on over 13 million children using the INVALSI dataset

David Giofrè, Cesare Cornoldi, Angela Martini, Enrico Toffalini (2020)

Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

Mapping community, social, and economic risks to investigate the association with school violence and bullying in Italy

Carlo Tramontano, Annalaura Nocentini, Laura Palmerio, Bruno Losito, Ersilia Menesini (2020)

Inequalities Soft / Non-cognitive skills Teaching characteristics Grade 8 International survey data

Immigrant children’s proficiency in the host country language is more important than individual, family and peer characteristics in predicting their psychological well-being

Elisa Cavicchiolo, Sara Manganelli, Laura Girelli, Andrea Chirico, Fabio Lucidi, Fabio Alivernini (2020)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 5 Sample data

Students’ psychological well-being and its multilevel relationship with immigrant background, gender, socioeconomic status, achievement, and class size

Fabio Alivernini, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Sara Manganelli, Andrea Chirico, and Fabio Lucidi (2020)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Sample data

Exploring the complex relationship between students’ reading skills and their performance in mathematics: a population-based study

Clelia Cascella (2021)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 10 Population data

Civic and citizenship education in Italy: results from the IEA-ICCS 2016 on conceptualization and delivery at 8th grade

Valeria Damiani (2019)

School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Sample data

Alunni con background migratorio in Italia. Emergenze e traguardi

Mariagrazia Santagati, Erica Colussi (2019)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

How much does ‘home possession’ affect educational attainment? empiric al evidences towards a simpler bi-dimensional socio-economic status in dex

Clelia Cascella (2019)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Sample data

Gli apprendimenti di alunni italiani e stranieri a confronto. Difficoltà ed eccellenze nelle prove INVALSI

Paolo Barabanti (2019)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

I compiti a casa e l’apprendimento della matematica: un approccio multilivello a partire dai dati dell’indagine TIMSS 2015

Andrea Bendinelli, Patrizia Giannantoni, Giuseppina Le Rose (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 International survey data

Student self-beliefs and achievement in mathematics using TIMSS Advanced

Laura Palmerio, Elisa Caponera (2019)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Type of upper secondary school Grade 13 International survey data

Are there immigrant-gender gaps in education? An empirical investigation based on PISA data from Italy

Tindara Addabbo, Maddalena Davoli, Marina Murat (2019)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 10 International survey data

Home-school proximity, school appeal, immigrant-origin youths: a case study in Bologna

Santangelo 2019

Family background Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Caratteristiche socio-demografiche degli insegnanti italiani e loro influenze sugli apprendimenti degli studenti

Giovanni Abbiati, Gianluca Argentin (2019)

Learning improvement Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Sample data

Chi sono gli studenti top performers? Uno studio attraverso l’analisi dei risultati delle rilevazioni nazionali INVALSI 2015

Paolo Barabanti, Valeria F. Tortora (2019)

Family background Gender; Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 10 Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Sub-section of the population data

I dirigenti scolastici in Italia: alcune caratteristiche dei leader dell’educazione

Giuseppina Le Rose, Veronica Riccardi (2019)

Gender Geographical areas School management Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Sample data

L’impatto del gap linguistico nelle performance degli allievi con cittadinanza italiana e non italiana: dai risultati delle prove INVALSI al lavoro in classe

Chiara Giberti, Matteo Viale (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Sample data

L’influenza del clima scolastico sui risultati degli studenti italiani

Sergio Longobardi, Margherita Maria Pagliuca, Andrea Regoli (2019)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Sample data

Nazionalità, migrazione e apprendimenti in Italia: una comparazione tra livelli scolastici

Eleonora Vlach (2019)

Class size Family background Gender Geographical areas Inequalities Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

Spazio sociale, capitale culturale e performance scolastica. Un’analisi multidimensionale dei dati del questionario studente INVALSI

Marco Serino, Michele Cardone, Emiliano Campodifiori (2019)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 5 Grade 10 Sample data

Le prove nazionali INVALSI e l’indagine internazionale PISA 2015: un confronto tra i risultati in Matematica e Lettura

Elisa Caponera, Bruno Losito, Laura Palmerio (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 10 International survey data

Tempo pieno e 27 ore nella scuola primaria: c’è qualche differenza nelle performance?

Brunella Fiore (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 5 Sample data

Biblioteca scolastica e rendimento degli studenti: una relazione da approfondire

Rita Marzoli, Ornella Papa (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

La biblioteca scolastica e il rendimento degli studenti: una relazione da approfondire

Rita Marzoli, Ornella Papa (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Open data

Chi non fa le prove INVALSI: caratteristiche degli assenti alle prove

Michele Cardone, Daniela Di Ascenzo, Monica Papini (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Qualità della relazione insegnante-studenti e rendimento scolastico: uno sguardo dentro le classi secondarie di primo grado

Stefania Sette, Lorenzo Mancini, Donatella Poliandri (2019)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 5 Grade 6 Sub-section of the population data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano nel 2018. Dalla stabilità all’integrazione

Paolo Barabanti (2019)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Strumenti per apprendere o oggetti di apprendimento? Una rilettura critica della digitalizzazione nella scuola italiana

Marco Gui, Tiziano Gerosa (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Neighborhood and school segregation in Italy

Matteo Piolatto (2019)

Class / School segregation Grade 8 Population data

Detection of differential item functioning in imbalanced groups. Are INVALSI tests fair among pupils from different academic schools?

Nicola Bazoli (2019)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Sample data

La performance in matematica degli studenti del V anno di scuola secondaria di secondo grado: un’analisi multilivello sui dati dell’anno scolastico 2018-2019

Marta Carrozzo, Stefania Mignani, Mariagiulia Matteucci (2019)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Migrant background School added-value Type of upper secondary school Grade 13 Sample data

Biblioteca scolastica e rendimento degli studenti: una relazione da approfondire

Rita Marzoli, Ornella Papa (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

The effects of classroom composition and size on bullying and victimization of italian and immigrant high school students

Manganelli Sara, Fabio Lucidi, Fabio Alivernini (2019)

Family background Gender Class size Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Sample data

The classmates social isolation questionnaire for adolescents (csiq-a): validation and invariance across immigrant background, gender and socioeconomic level

Elisa Cavicchiolo, Laura Girelli, Fabio Lucidi, Sara Manganelli, Fabio Alivernini (2019)

Family background Gender Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Population data

An analysis of the performance of italian schools in bebras and in the national student assessment INVALSI

Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga (2019)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Educational expectations of migrant students in Italy: second-class destiny or integration’s opportunity?

Veronica Riccardi, Patrizia Giannantoni, Giuseppina Le Rose (2019)

Class size Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Regular school trajectory Soft / Non-cognitive skills Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 Population data

Italy: A school system in difficulty with a territorial divide. Evidence from the INVALSI data

Patrizia Falzetti (2019)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Population data

Le prove INVALSI nella primavera 2019

Tiziana Pedrizzi (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Evaluating the stability of school performance estimates over time

Veronica Minaya, Tommaso Agasisti (2019)

School added-value Grade 5 Sample data

Teachers and cheaters: just an anagram?

Santiago Pereda-Fernández (2019)

Class size Gender Geographical areas Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Implicit stereotypes: evidence from teachers’ gender bias

Michela Carlana (2019)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 6 Grade 8 Sample data

Semiparametric mixed effects models for unsupervised classification of Italian schools

Chiara Masci, Anna Maria Paganoni, Francesca Ieva (2019)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Underachieving Grade 6 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Brothers, ants or thieves: students’ complex attitudes towards immigrants and the role of socioeconomic status and gender in shaping them

Fabio Alivernini, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Sara Manganelli (2019)

Family background Gender Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Sample data

Gli effetti della composizione e della grandezza della classe sul bullismo e la vittimizzazione per gli studenti italiani e immigrati nella scuola secondaria di secondo grado

Elisa Cavicchiolo, Laura Girelli, Ines Di Leo, Sara Manganelli, Fabio Lucidi, Fabio Alivernini (2019)

Class size
Grade 10
Sample data

The use of self-regulated cognitive strategies across students with different immigrant backgrounds and gender

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Andrea Chirico, Fabio Lucidi (2018)

Gender Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Population data

Relationships between sociocultural factors (gender, immigrant and socioeconomic background), peer relatedness and positive affect in adolescents

Fabio Alivernini, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Laura Girelli, Fabio Lucidi, Valeria Biasi, Luigi Leone, Mauro Cozzolino, Sara Manganell (2019)

Family background Gender Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Sample data

School principals’ leadership types and student achievement in the italian context: empirical results from a three-step latent class analysis

Tommaso Agasisti, Alex J Bowers, Mara Soncin (2018)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 Sample data

Ic technology and learning: an impact evaluation of cl@ssi 2.0.

Daniele Checchi, Enrico Rettore, Silvia Girardi (2018)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Teaching characteristics Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Studenti con difficoltà di apprendimento nell’area di milano: il contributo all’analisi delle prove INVALSI 2016/17

Paolo Barabanti (2018)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths
Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading
Inequalities Migrant background Underachieving Grade 10 Population data

Gli studenti eccellenti nella scuola italiana. Opinioni dei docenti e performance degli alunni

Paolo Barabanti (2018)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Come valutano i docenti: un’analisi del questionario insegnanti INVALSI 2015/16

Paolo Barabanti (2018)

Type of upper secondary school Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Regional differences count: an intra-national exploration of gender (in) equality in mathematics education

Clelia Cascella, Maria Pampaka, Julian Williams (2018)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Come gli studenti delle regioni italiane superano il gap socio-economico: evidenze da PISA 2012

Tommaso Agasisti, Sergio Longobardi (2016)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Migrant background Grade 10 International survey data

Le differenze tra scuole nei risultati in matematica:un’analisi multilivello in funzione dei processi cognitivi indagati in PISA

Elisa Caponera, Bruno Losito, Riccardo Pietracci, Laura Palmerio (2016)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Type of upper secondary school Inequalities Grade 10 International survey data

Motivazione, impegno e fiducia in se stessi nelle regioni PON

Isabella Romeo, Brunella Fiore (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 International survey data

Integrazione scolastica e immigrazione

Paola Giangiacomo, Monica Papini (2016)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 International survey data

Gli ultimi saranno i primi: livelli di competenza, equità e resilienza

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Fabio Lucidi (2016)

Inequalities Underachieving Grade 10 International survey data

Le carriere professionali degli studenti e delle studentesse dell’area PON

Michela Freddano, Valeria F. Tortora (2016)

Family background Gender Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 International survey data

Obiettivo equità: le performance delle regioni convergenza

Morena Sabella (2016)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 10 International survey data

Da studenti low-performers a cittadini high-performers attraverso il rinnovamento metodologico della didattica

Carmela Piazza, Franca Zerilli (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Teaching characteristics Grade 10 International survey data

L’impatto della reading literacy sul rendimento in matematica

Elisa Caponera, Cristina Felici, Stefania Codella, Laura Palmerio (2016)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 10 International survey data

Uno studio sui livelli di competenza: la rasch analysis dei dati ocse-pisa 2012 per la misura delle differenze tra gli studenti delle regioni italiane

Tullio Menini (2016)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Inequalities Grade 10 International survey data

Fattori cognitivi e non-cognitivi associati alla literacy finanziaria. Risultati italiani PISA 2012

Carlo Di Chiacchio, Sabrina Greco (2016)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 International survey data

Evaluating the stability of school performance estimates for school choice: evidence for italian primary schools

Tommaso Agasisti, Veronica Minaya (2018)

School added-value Grade 2 Grade 5 Sub-section of the population data

Stranieri nelle scuole e nei percorsi formativi in provincia di Brescia. Trend e risultati di apprendimento per l’anno scolastico 2016/17

Paolo Barabanti (2018)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Interstizi scolastici: la prossimità residenza-scuola fra gli alunni di origine immigrata a Bologna

Federica Santangelo, Giancarlo Gasperoni, Debora Mantovani (2018)

Geographical areas Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Didactic contract as a key to interpreting gender differences in maths

Giorgio Bolondi, Federica Ferretti, Chiara Giberti (2018)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 10 Sample data

School principals’ leadership types and student achievement in the Italian context: Empirical results from a three-step latent class analysis

Tommaso Agasisti, Alex J Bowers, Mara Soncin (2019)

School management Grade 6 Grade 8 Sample data

The added value of more accurate predictions for school rankings

Fritz Schiltz, Paolo Sestito, Tommaso Agasisti, Kristof De Witte (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths School added-value Grade 8 Population data

The effect of classroom composition and size on learning outcomes for Italian and immigrant students in high school.

Elisa Cavicchiolo, Fabio Alivernini (2018)

Class / School segregation Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Placing multiple tests on a common scale using a post-test anchor design: effects of item position and order on the stability of parameter estimates

Davide Marengo, Renato Miceli, Rosalba Rosato, Michele Settanni (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Exploring italian students’ performances in the SNV test: A quantile regression perspective

Antonella Costanzo, Domenico Vistocco (2018)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 8 Sample data

A quantitative methodology for analyzing the impact of the formulation of a mathematical item on students learning assessment

Giorgio Bolondi, Laura Branchetti, Chiara Giberti (2018)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 6 Sample data

The influence of school size, principal characteristics and school management practices on educational performance: An efficiency analysis of Italian students attending middle schools

Chiara Masci, Kristof De Witte, Tommaso Agasisti (2018)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 6 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Dall’esclusione digitale al sovrautilizzo: origini sociali, pervasività dello smartphone e rendimenti scolastici

Tiziano Gerosa, Marco Gui (2018)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Does public investment in ICTs improve learning performance? evidence from Italy

Marco Gui, Andrea Parma, Simona Comi (2018)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Regular school trajectory Top performing students Underachieving Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

Efficacia della scuola paritaria e della scuola statale in Italia: un confronto alla luce dei dati delle prove INVALSI 2016

Andrea Bendinelli, Angela Martini (2018)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory School management Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Tower of Babel in the classroom: immigrants and natives in italian schools

Rosario Maria Ballatore, Margherita Fort, Andrea Ichino (2018)

Class size Class / School segregation Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Quis custiodet ipsos custodes? How to detect and correct teacher cheating in italian student data

Sergio Longobardi, Patrizia Falzetti, Margherita Maria Pagliuca (2018)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Grade 5 Sample data

Variable weighting via multidimensional IRT models in composite indicators construction

Michela Gnaldi, Simone Del Sarto (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sample data

Italian students’ results in the PISA mathematics test: does reading competence matter?

Anna Maria Ajello, Elisa Caponera, Laura Palmerio (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Grade 10 International survey data

Parents know them better: the effect of optional early entry on pupils’ schooling attainment

Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose, Daniela Sposato (2018)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Immigrant background and gender differences in primary students’ motivations toward studying

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Laura Girelli, Valeria Blasi, Fabio Lucidi (2018)

Gender Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 5 Sub-section of the population data

Highlights on gender gap from italian standardized assessment in mathematics

Giorgio Bolondi, Claudia Cascella, Chiara Giberti (2017)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Sample data

Gli studenti low performer nell’area milanese: un’analisi attraverso le prove INVALSI degli anni scolastici 2014/15 e 2015/16 e l’indagine ocse-pisa 2015

Paolo Barabanti (2017)

Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 10 Population data

Is it the way they use it? Teachers, ICT and student achievement

Simona Lorena Comi, Gianluca Argentin, Marco Gui, Federica Origo, Laura Pagani (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Teaching characteristics Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Foreign students and achievement in mathematics: evidence from the italian case ; gli alunni stranieri e l’apprendimento delle matematica: alcune riflessioni sul caso italiano

Giuseppina Le Rose, Veronica Riccardi (2017)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 5 Soft / Non-cognitive skills Sample data

L’indagine sull’educazione civica e alla cittadinanza IEA-ICCS 2016: un approfondimento sugli atteggiamenti degli studenti italiani

Valeria Damiani (2017)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 7 Grade 8 International survey data

Alunni stranieri e apprendimento dell’italiano: difficoltà e aspettative a partire dagli esiti degli studenti di dieci anni nell’a. s. 2013/2014

Giuseppina Le Rose, Veronica Riccardi (2017)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 5 Population data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano nell’anno 2015/16: dalla stabilità alla ricerca dell’uguaglianza di opportunità

Paolo Barabanti (2017)

Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Teacher Motivation and Student Learning

Gianna Barbieri, Claudio Rossetti, Paolo Sestito (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Teacher added-value Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

La frequenza della scuola pre-primaria e gli apprendimenti scolastici

Emiliano Campodifiori, Patrizia Falzetti, Monica Papini (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 Sample data

Origini sociali, consiglio orientativo e iscrizione al liceo: un’analisi basata sui dati dell’anagrafe studenti

Carlo Barone, Gianluca Argentin, Gianna Barbieri (2017)

Family background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Teaching characteristics Inequalities Grade 8 Sample data

I divari territoriali nelle competenze degli studenti italiani: tra fattori di contesto e ruolo delle istituzioni scolastiche

Emmanuele Pavolini (2017)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Funzioni e potenzialità dell’analisi statistica di test su larga scala in didattica della matematica

Chiara Giberti (2017)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Math empowerment: a multidisciplinary example to engage primary school students in learning mathematics

R. Folgieri, C. Lucchiari (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

La probabilità nelle prove INVALSI: analisi in verticale

Federica Ferretti, Francesca Martignone, Alice Lemmo (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

Attività didattica e prove INVALSI: alcune riflessioni a partire dall’opinione degli insegnanti

Michele Cardone, Giuseppina Le Rose, Veronica Riccardi (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

La struttura della prova INVALSI di italiano nei diversi livelli scolastici: un approccio multidimensionale

Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 5 Grade 10 Sample data

In a small moment: class size and moral hazard in the italian mezzogiorno

Joshua D. Angrist, Erich Battistin, Daniela Vuri (2017)

Class size Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Disadvantaged students and promotion factors of resilience

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Fabio Lucidi, Ines Di Leo, Elisa Cavicchiolo (2017)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Teaching characteristics Grade 10 Sample data

Counting rotten apples: student achievement and score manipulation in Italian elementary Schools

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Daniela Vuri (2017)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Different teachers for different students? Evidence on teacher-student matching and its consequences in the Italian case

Giovanni Abbiati, Gianluca Argentin, Tiziano Gerosa (2017)

Teacher added-value Type of upper secondary school Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Between-classes sorting within schools and test scores: an empirical analysis of italian junior secondary schools

Tommaso Agasisti, Patrizia Falzetti (2017)

Class / School segregation Grade 6 Population data

On estimating achievement dynamic models from repeated cross sections

Dalit Contini, Elisa Grand (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 5 Grade 6 Sample data

School library and students’ achievement: a relationship to go into

Rita Marzoli, Ornella papa (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Leadership for learning: The relationships between school context, principal leadership and mediating variables

Angelo Paletta, Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli (2017)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Beyond the mean estimate: a quantile regression analysis of inequalities in educational outcomes using INVALSI survey data

Antonella Costanzo, Marta Desimoni (2017)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Introduction to multilevel item response theory analysis: Descriptive and explanatory models.

Isabella Sulis, Michael D. Toland (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Sample data

Studenti svantaggiati e fattori di promozione della resilienza

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Fabio Lucidi, Ines Di Leo (2017)

Inequalities Learning improvement Grade 10 International survey data

Heterogeneity, school-effects and the north/south achievement gap in italian secondary education: evidence from a three-level mixed model

Tommaso Agasisti, Francesca Ieva, Anna Maria Paganoni (2017)

Geographical areas Learning improvement Grade 6 Population data

A multidimensional IRT approach for dimensionality assessment of standardised students’ tests in mathematics

Michela Gnaldi (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sample data

Sleep habits, circadian preference, and school performance in early adolescents

Paolo M. Russo, Valeria Biasi, Carlo Cipolli, Luca Mallia, Elisa Caponera (2017)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Underachieving Grade 8 International survey data

Bivariate multilevel models for the analysis of mathematics and reading pupils’ achievements

C. Masci, F. Ieva, T. Agasisti, A. M. Paganoni (2017)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 5 Grade 6 Sub-section of the population data

Separating gender composition effects from peer effects in education

Babak Jahanshahi (2017)

Gender Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

Apprendimenti e gap territoriali. Una comparazione fra studenti italiani e stranieri

Paolo Barabanti (2016)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Differenze di genere nell’apprendimento matematico e variabili di contesto: l’effetto dello status socio-economico sui punteggi di maschi e femmine ai test INVALSI

Clelia Cascella (2016)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Sample data

Variabilità nelle differenze di genere: un esame dei dati della rilevazione nazionale degli apprendimenti INVALSI-2016

Marta Desimoni (2016)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities School added-value Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Italian school principals’ managerial behaviors and students’ test scores: an empirical analysis

Tommaso Agasisti, Patrizia Falzetti, Mara Soncin (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths School management Grade 8 Sample data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano: anno scolastico 2014/15

Paolo Barabanti (2016)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Le secondarie superiori tra valutazioni e competenze

Valentina Ferri (2016)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Il sistema nazionale di valutazione: conoscere le scuole per supportarle

Francesca Fortini, Paola Muzzioli, Donatella Poliandri, Emanuela Vinci (2016)

Class size Class / School segregation Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement School added-value School management Teacher added-value Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

ICT e livelli di apprendimento nella scuola primaria: un’analisi sull’impatto della LIM in classe

Gianluca Argentin, Tiziano Gerosa (2016)

Learning improvement Grade 2 Sample data

Alunni stranieri e performance scolastiche: il caso di Milano

Marta Cordini, Andrea Parma (2016)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Other: sub-section of the population

La misurazione multidimensionale della povertà in istruzione in italia – multidimensional measurement of educational poverty in italy

Larysa Minzyuk, Felice Russo (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Valutazione degli apprendimenti, prove INVALSI e sistema scuola. Prime riflessioni a margine del questionario insegnante

Serafina Pastore (2016)

Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Mathematics teaching and learning: a paper starting from INVALSI data

Veronica Riccardi, Giuseppina Le Rose, Monica Amici (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Does child care availability play a role in maternal employment and children’s development? Evidence from Italy

Ylenia Brilli, Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato (2016)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Sample data

Does class matter more than school? Evidence from a multilevel statistical analysis on italian junior secondary school students

Tommaso Agasisti, Francesca Ieva, Chiara Masci, Anna Maria Paganoni (2015)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory School management Underachieving Grade 5 Grade 6 Sub-section of the population data

Joint assessment of the latent trait dimensionality and observed differential item functioning of students’ national tests

Michela Gnaldi, Silvia Bacci (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Sample data

The heterogeneity of the ‘private school effect’ in italian primary education

Tommaso Agasisti , Samuele Murtinu , Piergiacomo Sibiano (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Grade 5 Sub-section of the population data

Trade-Off between effectiveness and equity? An analysis of social sorting between classrooms and between schools

Gerard Ferrer-Esteban (2016)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Implicit drop-out Inequalities Grade 6 Population data

Peer effects of non-native students on natives’ educational outcomes: mechanisms and evidence

Marco Tonello (2016)

Class size Class / School segregation Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background School added-value Grade 8 Population data

Peer effects of non-native students on natives’ educational outcomes: mechanisms and evidence

Marco Tonello (2016)

Class size Class / School segregation Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background School added-value Grade 8 Population data

Do mixed item formats threaten test unidimensionality? Results from a standardized math achievement test

Davide Marengo, Renato Miceli, Michele Settanni (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

The impact of digital skills on educational outcomes: evidence from performance tests

Laura Pagani, Gianluca Argentin, Marco Gui, Luca Stanca (2016)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 10 Population data

Clustering dichotomously scored items through functional data analysis

Battista Tonio, Fortuna Francesca (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 10 Sample data

The influence of reading literacy on mathematics and science achievement

Elisa Caponera, Paolo Sestito, Paolo M. Russo (2016)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 4 International survey data

School factors helping disadvantaged students to succeed: empirical evidence from four italian cities

Tommaso Agasisti, Mara Soncin, Riccardo Valenti (2016)

Class size Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Learning improvement School added-value Grade 5 Grade 6 Sub-section of the population data

Investigating the link between migration and civicness in italy. Which individual and school factors matter?

Davide Azzolini (2016)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

How do students react to longer instruction time? Evidence from italy

Elena Claudia Meroni, Giovanni Abbiati (2016)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Underachieving Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

A longitudinal analysis of the italian national standardized mathematics tests

Laura Branchetti, Federica Ferretti, Alice Lemmo, Andrea Maffia, Francesca Martignone, Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 6 Grade 8 Population data

Alunni con cittadinanza non italiana. Tra difficoltà e successi. Rapporto nazionale a.s. 2013/14

Mariagrazia Santagati, Vinicio Ongini (2015)

Inequalities Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

The north-south divide in school grading standards: new evidence from national assessment of the italian student population

Gianluca Argentin, Moris Triventi (2015)

Geographical areas Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 Population data

Il nodo dell’apprendimento. Una comparazione fra studenti italiani

Paolo Barabanti (2015)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

I divari territoriali negli apprendimenti degli studenti

Cecilia Manzo, Emmanuele Pavolini, Patrizia Falzetti (2015)

Class size Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Learning improvement Migrant background School added-value School management Grade 2 Grade 10 Population data

Male and female performance in mathematics: empirical evidence from Italy.

Clelia Cascella (2015)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Population data

La leadership educativa in Italia nel I e nel II ciclo di istruzione

Giuseppina Le Rose, Veronica Riccardi (2015)

Gender School added-value School management Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Quanto conta l’effetto scuola nel ciclo primario? l’efficacia delle istituzioni scolastiche in toscana

Enrico Conti , Silvia Duranti , Carla Rampichini , Nicola Sciclone (2015)

Class size Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 5 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano: anno scolastico 2013/14

Paolo Barabanti (2015)

Gli obiettivi formativi nella scuola primaria in un’ottica di pari opportunità. Verso i livelli essenziali delle prestazioni

Giuseppe Catalano, Giulia Peruzzi, Gianna Barbieri (2015)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Valutazione del sistema scolastico italiano: un’analisi multilivello sui risultati delle prove INVALSI

Pasquale Recchia (2015)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value Soft / Non-cognitive skills Type of upper secondary school Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 Sample data

The future has early roots: Learning outcomes and school effectiveness in Tuscany’s primary education system

Enrico Conti , Silvia Duranti , Carla Rampichini , Nicola Sciclone (2015)

Geographical areas
Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths
Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading
School added-value
Grade 5
Sub-section of the population data

Length of stay in the host country and educational achievement of immigrant students the Italian case

Adriana Di Liberto (2015)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Assessing primary and lower secondary school efficiency within northern, central and southern Italy

Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Aline Pennisi (2015)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Sample data

Cheating and social interactions. Evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program

Claudio Lucifora, Marco Tonello (2015)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

Early enrollees and peer age effect: first evidence from INVALSI Data

Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose, Daniela Sposato (2015)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Two Italies? Genes, intelligence and the italian north–south economic divide

Vittorio Daniele (2015)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Emerging problems and irt-based operational solutions in large-scale programs of student assessment: the italian case

Renato Miceli, Davide Marengo, Giorgia Molinengo, Michele Settanni (2015)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Population data

Assessing divergences in mathematics and reading achievement in italian primary schools: a proposal of adjusted indicators of school effectiveness

Isabella Sulis, Mariano Porcu (2015)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 5 Sample data

Dealing with the biased effects issue when handling huge datasets: the case of INVALSI data

Emanuela Raffinetti, I. Romeo (2015)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Migrant background School management Grade 6 Population data

La valutazione degli istituti scolastici: problemi di stima e alcune evidenze empiriche sui risultati dei test INVALSI

Pasquale Recchia, Ernesto Toma (2015)

Family background Geographical areas Inequalities School added-value Grade 5 Sample data

La presenza straniera nel sistema formativo bresciano

Mariagrazia Santagati, Elena Besozzi, Paolo Barabanti, Marta Margherita Cordini (2014)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Gli esiti scolastici degli alunni con cittadinanza non italiana

Maddalena Colombo (2014)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Regular school trajectory Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Grade 13 Population data

Una scuola uguale per tutti? l’abbinamento insegnanti-studenti come fattore occulto di iniquità nel sistema scolastico

Gianluca Argentin, Giovanni Abbiati, Patrizia Falzetti (2014)

Family background Teacher added-value Teaching characteristics Population data

An investigation of parameter recovery in mcmc estimation for the additive irt model

Mariagiulia Matteucci (2014)

Learning improvement Grade 8 Sample data

Cura dei figli, scelte lavorative delle madri e sviluppo cognitivo dei bambini

Ylenia Brilli (2014)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Sample data

Merito o fortuna?. Il ruolo dell’origine sociale nelle attribuzioni di successo e insuccesso

Renzo Carriero, Marianna Filandri, Tania Parisi (2014)

Family background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 6 Other: sub-section of the population data

The impact of parents ‘background and students’ age on educational outcomes in italian primary school: evidence from INVALSI data …

Sposato Daniela (2014)

Family background Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

L’effetto della dimensione familiare sui livelli di apprendimento dei bambini: evidenza empirica in Italia tramite analisi multilivello

Pasquale Recchia, Ernesto Toma (2014)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Sample data

Measuring the “managerial” efficiency of public schools: A case study in italy

Tommaso Agasisti, Francesca Bonomi, Piergiacomo Sibiano (2014)

Class size Family background Gender Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value School management Grade 8 Sample data

Student characteristics and mathematics achievement in TIMSS

Elisa Caponera, Paolo Maria Russo (2014)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Learning improvement Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

Psychological correlates of school bullying victimization: academic self-concept, learning motivation and test anxiety

Andrea Caputo (2014)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sample data

A multilevel finite mixture item response model to cluster examinees and schools

Michela Gnaldi, Silvia Bacci, Francesco Bartolucci (2016)

Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Sample data

Exploring regional differences in the reading competencies of italian students

Mariagiulia Matteucci,Stefania Mignani (2014)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Adolescents’ expected civic participation: the role of civic knowledge and efficacy beliefs

Sara Manganelli, Fabio Lucidi, Fabio Alivernini (2014)

Family background Gender Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

Trying to raise (low) math achievement and to promote (rigorous) policy evaluation in italy: evidence from a large-scale randomized trial

Gianluca Argentin, Aline Pennisi, Daniele Vidoni, Giovanni Abbiati, Andrea Caputo (2014)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Teaching characteristics Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

A multilingual approach to analysing standardized test results: immigrant primary school children and the role of languages spoken in a bi-/multilingual community

Gessica De Angelis (2014)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 2 Sub-section of the population data

Improving students’ learning through school autonomy: evidence from the international civic and citizenship survey

Angelo Paletta (2014)

Family background Gender School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

School cheating and social capital

Marco Paccagnella, Paolo Sestito (2014)

Geographical areas Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Population data

Patterns of value-added creation in the transition from primary to lower secondary education in italy

Gianfranco De Simone, Andrea Gavosto (2013)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 6 Sub-section of the population data

Managerial practices and students’ performance

Adriana Di Liberto , Fabiano Schivardi , Giovanni Sulis (2015)

School management Grade 10 Population data

Rationale and incentives for cheating in the standardised tests of the italian assessment system

Gerard Ferrer-Esteban (2013)

Class / School segregation Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement School added-value Teacher added-value Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Multidimensional irt models to analyze learning outcomes of italian students at the end of lower secondary school

Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2015)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Sample data

Una scuola che apprende. Quali dimensioni organizzative per risultati migliori?

Daniela Molino (2013)

Class / School segregation Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science School management Grade 8 International survey data

Social interactions at school

Marco Tonello (2013)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Population data

Child development and cognitive outcomes: the role of public and family inputs

Ylenia Brilli (2013)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Sample data

When the cat is near, the mice won’t play: the effect of external examiners in italian schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco (2013)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Competition among italian junior-secondary schools: a variance-decomposition empirical analysis

Tommaso Agasisti (2013)

Geographical areas Learning improvement School management Grade 10 International survey data

Problems in deriving italian regional differences in intelligence from 2009 PISA data

Cesare Cornoldi, David Giofrè, Angela Martini (2013)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities School management Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 International survey data

The efficiency of italian secondary schools and the potential role of competition: a data envelopment analysis using OECD-PISA 2006 data

Tommaso Agasisti (2013)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science School added-value Type of upper secondary school Grade 10 International survey data

The causal effect of class size on pupils’ performance: evidence from italian primary schools

Larysa Minzyuk, Felice Russo (2012)

Class size Class / School segregation Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background School management Underachieving Grade 5 Sub-section of the population data

Do the managerial characteristics of schools influence their performance?

Agasisti Tommaso, Bonomi Francesca, Sibiano Piergiacomo (2012)

Teaching characteristics
School management
Grade 8
Sample data

Public governance and school performance

Angelo Paletta (2012)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Implicit drop-out Inequalities Learning improvement Migrant background School management Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 4 Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

The effect of population distribution on L1 and L2 acquisition: evidence from the multilingual region of south tyrol

Gessica De Angelis (2012)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Sub-section of the population data

IQs in Italy are higher in the north: a reply to Felice and Giugliano

Richard Lynn (2012)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Sample data

‘Perceived’ competition and performance in Italian secondary schools: new evidence from OECD–PISA 2006

Tommaso Agasisti, Samuele Murtinu (2012)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths School management Grade 10 International survey data

Efficienza e autonomia scolastica nella suola primaria e secondaria di primo grado italiana

Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Aline Pennisi (2011)

Class size School added-value School management Teacher added-value Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Sample data

La rilevazione degli apprendimenti nelle scuole italiane: un’analisi dei dati INVALSI con il modello di Rasch

Giuseppe Giampaglia, Barbara Guasco (2011)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 6 Sub-section of the population data

Are people in the south less intelligent than in the north? IQ and the north-south disparity in Italy

Vittorio Daniele, Paolo Malanima (2011)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 2 Grade 5 Sample data

Measurement invariance of a reading literacy scale in the italian context: a psychometric analysis

Fabio Alivernini (2011)

Class size Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 4 International survey data

Is there a relationship between openness in classroom discussion and students’ knowledge in civic and citizenship education?

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli (2011)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Sample data

Psychometric properties and construct validity of a scale measuring self-regulated learning: evidence from the italian PIRLS data

Fabio Alivernini, Fabio Lucidi, Sara Manganelli (2011)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 4 International survey data

The case against Lynn’s doctrine that population IQ determines levels of socio-economic development and public health status

David Robinson, Aristide Saggino, Marco Tommasi (2011)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 2 Grade 4 Grade 6Grade 9 Grade 10 Sample data

Gender differences in performance in mathematics at the end of lower secondary school in Italy

Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2011)

Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 8 Other: sub section of population

Differential variability of test scores among schools: a multilevel analysis of the fifth-grade INVALSI test using heteroscedastic random effects

Claudia Sani, Leonardo Grilli (2011)

Class / School segregation Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Grade 5 Sample data

Stranieri si nasce… e si rimane? differenziali nelle scelte scolastiche tra giovani italiani e stranieri

Paolo Canino (2010)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Implicit drop-out Type of upper secondary school Grade 8 Sample data

Uno studio sugli studenti top performer attraverso le prove INVALSI 2015

Paolo Barabanti, Valeria F. Tortora (2016)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory Soft / Non-cognitive skills Top performing students Grade 5 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Un oggetto, tanti nomi. Analisi delle prove INVALSI di Inglese in contesti familiari multilinguistici

Francesca Leggi, Veronica Pastori, Maria Carmela Russo (2022)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – English Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

Un indicatore di status socio-economico-culturale degli allievi della quinta primaria in Italia

Emiliano Campodifiori, Elisabetta Figura, Monica Papini, Roberto Ricci (2010)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 2 Sample data

Un focus sui risultati degli studenti multilingue alle prove INVALSI di inglese

Francesca Leggi, Veronica Pastori, Maria Carmela Russo (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – English Migrant background Grade 5 Population data

Teacher mobility and student learning

Gianna Barbieri, Claudio Rossetti, Paolo Sestito (2013)

Learning improvement Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Population data

Studenti e insegnanti e la loro relazione con l’uso delle tecnologie nel periodo precedente l’emergenza sanitaria da covid-19

Elisa Caponera, Laura Palmerio (2022)

Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 International survey data

Studenti con bisogni educativi speciali e senso di appartenenza a scuola in TIMSS 2019

Francesco Annunziata, Elisa Caponera, Laura Palmerio (2023)

Class / School segregation Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 4 International survey data

Reading literacy in Italy according to PIRLS: testing levels of measurement invariance

Fabio Alivernini (2011)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 4 International survey data

Reading literacy in Italy : testing a model with school, teacher, family and student factors

Fabio Alivernini, Fabio Lucidi, Sara Manganelli, Bruno Losito (2010)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 4 International survey data

Pratiche didattiche per l’insegnamento dell’italiano nella scuola primaria: un’analisi esplorativa sui dati del questionario insegnante INVALSI

Francesca Leggi, Veronica Pastori, Maria Carmela Russo (2020)

Teaching characteristics Grade 5 Sample data

Nativi e stranieri di seconda generazione: un’analisi longitudinale

Francesca Leggi, Veronica Pastori, Maria Carmela Russo (2020)

Learning improvement Migrant background Grade 2 Grade 5 Population data

Multilevel analysis of PIRLS 2006 data for Italy

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Emanuela Vinci (2010)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 4 International survey data

Motivazioni e percezioni degli studenti italiani: validità delle misure disponibili e relazioni con gli apprendimenti

Fabio Alivernini, Paolo Sestito (2014)

Soft / Non-cognitive skills Learning improvement Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 10 Sample data

Le competenze scientifiche degli studenti: evidenze dall’indagine OCSE – PISA

Patrizia Falzetti, Paola Giangiacomo (2020)

Family background Regular school trajectory Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 10 International survey data

La Validazione Statistica di test standardizzati di profitto: principali aspetti di metodo e due casi di studio sulla valutazione degli apprendimenti nella scuola primaria

Nicola Falocci, Michela Gnaldi, Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani (2010)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Sample data

La prova nazionale INVALSI e l’esame di conclusione del primo ciclo

Angela Martini (2016)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Teaching characteristics Grade 8 Sample data

La prova di lettura strumentale di II primaria e la relazione con la comprensione del testo

Emiliano Campodifiori, Elisabetta Figura, Angela Martini, Monica Papini (2011)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Migrant background Grade 2 Sample data

La performance della scuola media inferiore nel dodicennio pre-covid: un’analisi dei trend nelle prove TIMSS in matematica e scienze dal 2007 al 2019

Elisa Caponera, Laura Palmerio, Paolo Sestito (2022)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 8 International survey data

La dispersione scolastica: uno studio su alcuni indicatori di rischio nella scuola secondaria di I grado

Giuseppina Le Rose, Chiara Sacco (2020)

Family background Implicit drop-out Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 Population data

INVALSI data for school system improvement: the value added

Michele Cardone, Patrizia Falzetti, Chiara Sacco (2019)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 5 Grade 8 Population data

Che cosa ne pensano gli insegnanti delle prove INVALSI

Angela Martini (2020)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Exploring INVALSI math performances among slovenian, german and italian language schools

Michele Cardone, Monica Papini, Veronica Pastori (2019)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 5 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data

Excellence in education in advanced regions: an application of the pisa data

Laura Palmerio, Pasqualino Montanaro (2012)

Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Science School management Grade 10 International survey data

Estimation of test-taking effort on INVALSI computer-based tests

Chiara Sacco (2020)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Implicit drop-out Soft / Non-cognitive skills Underachieving Grade 8 Population data

Equità o segregazione scolastica? l’effetto della composizione delle classi sull’apprendimento degli studenti

Michele Cardone, Patrizia Falzetti. Antonio Severoni (2015)

Class / School segregation Geographical areas Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 10 Population data

Dimensioni organizzative della scuola e performance degli studenti

Daniela Molino, Daniele Vidoni (2011)

Class / School segregation Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths School added-value School management Grade 4 Grade 8 International survey data

Democratic climate in classroom, does it make any difference?

Fabio Alivernini, Sara Manganelli, Ines Di Leo (2011)

Family background Gender Migrant background Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 8 International survey data

Dalla performance degli studenti al contributo della scuola: il ruolo dei fattori di composizione nei singoli segmenti del sistema scolastico

Angela Martini, Letizia Marcucci (2012)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Learning improvement Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

Che cosa ne pensano gli insegnanti delle prove INVALSI

Angela Martini, Monica Papini (2015)

Teaching characteristics Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 Sample data

Analysis of school-level factors contributing to spatial inequality in academic achievement in Italy

Patrizia Falzetti, Chiara Sacco (2020)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Migrant background Regular school trajectory School added-value Grade 5 Grade 6 Population data

Analisi spaziale degli apprendimenti scolastici negli istituti del sud Italia

Silvia Donno, Cecilia Bagnarol, Michele Marsili (2020)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 8 Sub-section of the population data

An analysis of factors affecting pupils’ science achievement in Italy

Fabio Alivernini, Laura Palmerio, Emanuela Vinci, Ines Di Leo (2010)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Grade 4 International survey data

Accounting school system to avoid educational inequalities

Patrizia Falzetti, Michela Freddano, Antonio Severoni (2016)

Family background Gender Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Grade 10 Population data

A Rating scale model for a scale of test anxiety in Italy

Donatella Poliandri, Michele Cardone, Paola Muzzioli, Sara Romiti (2011)

Gender Soft / Non-cognitive skills Grade 5 Sample data

A comparison of the goodness-of-fit of three multidimensional IRT models to the INVALSI data

Simone del Sarto (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Learning improvement Grade 8 Population data

Un esercizio di calcolo del valore aggiunto delle scuole italiane sulla base dei risultati della prova INVALSI di matematica 2017 del grado 8

Andrea Bendinelli, Angela Martini (2018)

Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths School added-value Grade 8 Sample data

Performance in TIMSS mathematics test: The influence of self-concept and socio-economic background

Elisa Caponera, Paolo M. Russo (2010)

Family background Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Inequalities Grade 8 International survey data

Compositional effects in Italian primary schools: An exploratory analysis of INVALSI SNV data and suggestions for further research

Marco Petracco-Giudici, Daniele Vidoni, Rossana Rosati (2010)

Class size Family background Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading School added-value Grade 5 Sample data

The mean Southern Italian children IQ is not particularly low: A reply to R. Lynn (2010)

Cesare Cornoldi, Carmen Belacchi, David Giofrè, Angela Martini, Patrizio Tressoldi (2010)

Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Inequalities Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8 Open data

I divari regionali nell’apprendimento scolastico in Italia: evidenze dalle indagini nazionali e internazionali

Pasqualino Montanaro, Paolo Sestito (2009)

Family background Gender Geographical areas Hard / Cognitive skills – Maths Hard / Cognitive skills – Reading Hard / Cognitive skills – Science Inequalities Top performing students Type of upper secondary school Underachieving Grade 4 Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Sub-section of the population data