Front Matter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Progress and Challenges for Large-Scale Studies -- 2 The Measurement of Student Achievement in International Studies -- 3 Adapting Achievement Tests into Multiple Languages for International Assessments -- 4 Sampling Issues in Design, Conduct, and Interpretation of International Comparative Studies of School Achievement -- 5 Cultural-Cognitive Issues in Academic Achievement: New Directions for Cross-National Research -- 6 Measuring Family Background in International Studies of Education: Conceptual Issues and Methodological Challenges -- 7 Advancements in Conceptualizing and Analyzing Cultural Effects in Cross-National Studies of Educational Achievement1 -- 8 The Measurement of Opportunity to Learn1 -- 9 Statistical Issues in Analysis of International Comparisons of Educational Achievement -- 10 Drawing Inferences for National Policy from Large-Scale Cross-National Education Surveys1 -- 11 Large-Scale, Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement: Promises, Pitfalls, and Possibilities -- A Symposium Agenda and Participants -- B Biographical Sketches of Board Members -- Index.