1. Introduction

   • Petra Stanat
   • Jürgen Baumert

   EditorialNotes Pages: 331 - 333

2. The framework used in developing and Interpreting the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)

   • Irwin S. Kirsch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 335 - 361

3. Predictors of reading literacy

   • Cordula Artelt
   • Ulrich Schiefele
   • Wolfgang Schneider

   OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 383

4. Identifying national cultures of mathematics education: Analysis of cognitive demands and differential item functioning in TIMSS

   • Eckhard Klieme
   • Jürgen Baumert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 402

5. Learning about students’ knowledge and thinking in science through large-scale quantitative studies

   • Rolf V. Olsen
   • Are Turmo
   • Svein Lie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 420

6. Motivation to learn as an outcome and determining factor of learning at school

   • Erich Ramseier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 439

7. Test motivation in the assessment of student skills: The effects of incentives on motivation and performance

   • Jürgen Baumert
   • Anke Demmrich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 462