This article contains a list of international databases on individual student achievement tests that can be used for psychometric research. In other words, this table only includes datasets containing items measuring ability and directly answered by students.

Database name Discipline(s) Country Available years Longitudinal/Cross-sectional Cost AccessCivic Education Study (CivEd) Knowledge of democratic practices and institutions, as well as U.S. ninth-grade students’ attitudes toward democracy, national identity, international relations, and social cohesion and diversity 27 countries 1999 Cross-sectionalAvailable through CDEarly Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99 (ECLS-K) Mathematics, reading, general knowledge and science 27 countries The birth cohort of the ECLS-B is a sample of children born in 2001 and followed from birth through kindergarten entry. The kindergarten class of 1998-99 cohort is a sample of children followed from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The kindergarten class of 2010-11 cohort will follow a sample of children from kindergarten through the fifth grade. Longitudinal Data freely available but restricted data requiring an administrative process for accessEducation Longitudinal Study of 2002MathematicsUnited States 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2012 LongitudinalEducation Longitudinal Study of 2002Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes (ENADE)Administration, accounting, economics, journalism, marketing and advertising, design, law, psychology, international relations, administrative assistant, tourism, business management, human resources, financial management, operations, marketing, managementBrazil 2004-2011 Cross-sectionalINEPDownload microdataENEMLanguage, science, mathematics, humanitiesBrazil 1998-2011 Cross-sectionalINEPNAEPArts, civics, economics, foreign language, geography, mathematics, reading, science, U.S. history, world history, writing, technology and engineering literacy (starting in 2014)United States 1999, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Cross-sectionalNAEPNational Longitudinal Study of 1972Vocabulary, mathematics, reading, picture-number associations, letter groups, and mosaic comparisonsUnited States 1972-1973 (base years), follow-up surveys in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, and 1986 LongitudinalDASPIAAC Literacy, numeracy, problem solving in technology-rich environments, and reading24 participating countries One collection between 2011 and 2012 Cross-sectionalData to be released between December 2013 and April 2014PIRLS Readingmore than 50 countries 2001, 2006 Cross-sectionalNCESPISAReading, mathematics and science, only one area being evaluated in each year.Over 70 countries list of PISA countries 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 Cross-sectionalPISASistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB)Language and mathematicsBrazil 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2011 Cross-sectionalINEPTIMSSMathematics and science Over 60 countries 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011 Cross-sectionalNCES

See also

List of online databases

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