This paper reports selected findings from a secondary analysis of data, drawn from the 2009 edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), conducted by the OECD. The focus of the analysis is Italian students’ use of information and communication technologies. PISA’s...

The harmonisation of the university educational systems at a European level has experienced a boost since the late 1990s with the implementation of the so-called “Bologna Process”, which had the aim to introduce a more transparent and comparable system of university degrees, fostering...

The 16th ALMALAUREA Report on Italian University Graduates’ Profile was presented at the Conference in Pollenzo-Bra – hosted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences. The data on which this Report is based refers to 64 universities (out of the 65 which are part of the consortium) which have...

Il XV Profilo dei Laureati italiani, presentato al convegno "Scelte, processi, esiti nell’istruzione universitaria”, presso l’Università IULM di Milano coinvolge quasi 227.000 laureati del 2012, circa l’80% di tutti i laureati usciti dall’intero sistema universitario nazionale nei 63...

As more researchers use online panels for studies, the need for standardized rates to evaluate these studies becomes paramount. There are currently many different ways and conflicting terminology used to compute various metrics for online panels. This paper discusses the sparse literature on how...

Recently, the leading position of telephone surveys as the major mode of data collection has been challenged. Telephone surveys suffer from a growing nonresponse, partly due to the general nonresponse trend for all surveys and partly due to changes in society and technology influencing...

Using mobile phones to conduct survey interviews has gathered momentum recently. However, using mobile telephones in surveys poses many new challenges. One important challenge involves properly classifying final case dispositions to understand response rates and non-response error and to...