February 24, 2025
Today, the R Analyzer for Large-Scale Assessments (RALSA) package for the R statistical environment has been updated to version 1.5.5, bringing a desirable convenience feature. When large-scale assessments’ data are needed, an entire database with all data files, documentation and reports has to be downloaded. It would be nice if one is able to download only the data files for a country per study, cycle, and population of interest, but nothing else. This version…
July 25, 2024
Today, the R Analyzer for Large-Scale Assessments (RALSA) package for the R statistical environment has been updated to version 1.4.7. This update replaces the F-statistic with…
April 26, 2024
The R Analyzer for Large-Scale Assessments (RALSA) has been updated to version 1.4.5. This update fixes a number of issues in the graphing capabilities of the descriptive functions and the GUI. In addition to these fixes…
February 2, 2024
The R Analyzer for Large-Scale Assessments (RALSA) has been updated to version 1.4.0. This update fixes a number of issues, completely revamps the conversion function…
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October 26, 2023
RALSA has been updated to version 1.3.7. This update focuses mainly on some critical issues that were introduced after the changes in the last versions of R and CRAN policies on package documentation.
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June 23, 2023
RALSA has been updated to version 1.3.5. This update focuses on adding more functionality to the existing graph capabilities, bug fixes and overall improvement of the workflow, and fixes existing features following updates of packages RALSA depends on. Saving syntaxes from the GUI now appends the new synatx to existing files instead of overwriting them. Support for PIRLS 2021 is now added. Here is the full list of changes…
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July 8, 2022
RALSA has been updated to version 1.3.0. This update focuses mainly on bugfixes and improvements in the GUI and its workflow, but also introduces some new features.
New functionality
lsa.crosstabs function…May 4, 2022
RALSA has been updated to version 1.2.0. The main accent in this update is introducing graphical representation of the statistics for the percentages and averages, percentiles, and benchmarks. These…
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March 30, 2022
RALSA has been updated to version 1.1.5. The update brings new functionality for an existing analysis type, new data preparation function, improvements and bug fixes. Here is what’s new in this update:
New functionality
March 25, 2022
The International Educational Research and Evaluation Institute (https://www.ineri.org) is organizing a three-day online training on using the R Analyzer for Large-Scale Assessments (RALSA) R package to analyze large-scale assessments’ and surveys’ data. The three-day training will take place from April 25 till April 27, 2022. The training includes both lectures and hands-on practice sessions.