OCCAM PhD Projects

The ETN OCCAM involves 15 exceptional early-career researchers (ESRs). Their single projects are categorized in three thematic Working Groups following an overarching research plan. Each ESR is full-time employed by one of the consortium members. All ESRs receive a joint interdisciplinary, intersectorial, and international training that includes research visits and a secondment at different partner organizations.

Working Group 1: The Integrity of Educational Outcome Measures

	Edwin Cuellar	The influence of item format and scoring on score comparability	More on ESR project no. 1
	Andrés Christiansen	Does one size fit all? Evaluating the cross-cultural validity of constructs	More on ESR project no. 2
	Erika Majoros	Linking recent and older IEA studies on mathematics and science	More on ESR project no. 3
	Olesya Gladushyna	The integrity of test scores for national monitoring and comparative research	More on ESR project no. 4
	Andrés Strello	Measuring educational inequality: competing normative foundations	More on ESR project no. 5
	Laura Raffaella Zieger	Investigations on the scaling methodology used in PISA	More on ESR project no. 6

Working Group 2: Governance of Human and Financial Resources and Decision Making

	Pietro Sancassani	Reforms of teacher professionalization/accountability	More on ESR project no. 7
	Wangqiong Ye	Quality at the cost of equity? Performance management, school autonomy, and instructional quality	More on ESR project no. 8
	Emilie Franck	Effectiveness of educational priority policies	More on ESR project no. 9
	Elisa Salinas	Assessing the association between teacher workforce policies and student outcomes	More on ESR project no. 10
	Leah Natasha Glassow	Teaching quality and school segregation: perpetuating inequalities	More on ESR project no. 11

Working Group 3: Educational Settings and Processes

	Jelena Veletić	Transformational and instructional leadership as levers of learning	More on ESR project no. 12
	Evi-Evropi Konstantinidou	The impact of generic and content-specific teaching practices	More on ESR project no. 13
	Silvan Häs	Children from workless backgrounds and the mediating role of parents	More on ESR project no. 14
	Ana María Mejía Rodríguez	Distal and proximal causes of student achievement	More on ESR project no. 15