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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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.
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…
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.
February 4, 2022
RALSA
was updated to version 1.1.0. The update brings one more analysis type, a new feature for two of the existing analysis types, support for a new study, support for an additional datasets type within a supported study, many bugfixes, and a lot of improvements. Here is what’s new…
November 16, 2021
RALSA
was presented at the International Research Conference (IRC) organized by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The conference is held in Dubai in three modes — onsite, online, and hybrid.
The presentation given…
October 21, 2021
RALSA
was updated to version 1.0.2. This is a maintenance update and includes some bugfixes, dropping a package dependency, and some improvements. Here is what’s new…
October 4, 2021
We are very happy to announce a new publication on the RALSA
package in the Springer Open Large-scale Assessments in Education journal (an IEA-ETS Research Institute Journal). The publication…