Caro, D. H., & Kyriakides, K. (Eds.) (2019). Assessment design and quality of inferences in PISA: limitations and recommendations for improvement, [Special issue] Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 26:4, 363-368, DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2019.1645990
Wölfer, R., Caro, D. H. & Hewstone, M. (2019). Academic Benefit of Outgroup Contact for Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Students. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(3), 419–433. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430218809882
Steinmann, I., Strietholt, R., & Caro, D. .H. (2018). Participation in Extracurricular Activities and Student Achievement: Evidence from German All-Day Schools. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2018.1540435.
Caro, D. H. (2018). Socio-economic Gaps in Subject Interest: The Mediating Role of Parental Cognitive Involvement. Large-scale Assessments in Education, 6(13), 1-38.
Caro, D. H, Kyriakides, L., & Televantou, I. (2017): Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice.
Baird, J.-A, Caro, D. H., & Hopfenbeck, T.N. (2016). Student Perceptions of Predictability of Examination Requirements and Relationship with Outcomes in High-Stakes Tests in Ireland. Irish Educational Studies, 35(4), 361-379.
Caro, D. H., Lenkeit, J., & Kyriakides, L. (2016). Teaching strategies and differential effectiveness across learning contexts: Evidence from PISA 2012. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 49, 30-41.
Baird, J.-A., Meadows, M., Leckie, G., & Caro, D. H. (2015). Rater Accuracy and Training Group Effects in Expert and Supervisor-Based Monitoring Systems. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 24(1), 44-59.
Caro, D.H. (2015). Causal mediation in educational research: An illustration using international assessment data. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 8(4), 577-597.
Lenkeit, J., Caro, D. H., & Strand, S. (2015). Tackling the remaining attainment gap between students with and without immigrant background: an investigation into the equivalence of SES constructs. Educational Research and Evaluation, 21(1), 60-83.
Lenkeit, J., & Caro. D. H. (2014). Performance status and change – Measuring education system effectiveness with data from PISA 2000-2009. Educational Research and Evaluation, 20(2), 146-174.
Caro, D. H., Cortina, K. S., & Eccles, J. (2014). Socioeconomic Background, Education, and Labour Force Outcomes: Evidence from a Regional U.S. Sample. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(6), 934-957. DOI:10.1080/01425692.2013.868784.
Caro, D. H., Sandoval-Hernandez, A., & Lüdtke, O. (2014). Cultural, Social and Economic Capital Constructs in International Assessments: An Evaluation Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 25(3), 433-450.
Mirazchiyski, P., Caro, D. H., Sandoval-Hernandez, A. (2013). Youth Future Civic Participation in Europe: Differences between the East and the Rest. Social Indicators Research, 115(3), 1031–1055.
Caro, D. H. & Schulz, W (2012). Ten Hypotheses about Tolerance among Latin American Adolescents. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 11(3), 213-234.
Caro. D. H. & Cortés, D. (2012). Measuring family socioeconomic status: An illustration using data from PIRLS 2006. IERI Monograph Series: Issues and Methodologies in Large-Scale Assessments, 5, 9-33.
Caro, D. H. & Lenkeit, J (2012). An analytical approach to study educational inequalities: 10 hypothesis tests in PIRLS 2006. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 35(1), 3-30.
Caro, D. H. & Mirazchiyski, P. (2012). Socioeconomic Gradients in Eastern European Countries: Evidence from PIRLS 2006. European Educational Research Journal, 11(1), 96-110.
Caro. D. H. (2011). Parent-Child Communication and Academic Performance: Associations at the Within- and Between-Country Level. Journal for Educational Research Online, 3(2), 15-37.
Caro, D. H., McDonald, T., & Willms, J. D. (2009). Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence. Canadian Journal of Education, 32(3), 558-590.
Caro, D. H., & Lehmann, R. (2009). Achievement inequalities in Hamburg schools: how do they change as students get older? School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 20(4), 407 – 431.
Caro, D. H., Lenkeit, J., Lehmann, R., & Schwippert, K. (2009). The role of academic achievement growth in school track recommendations. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 35(4), 183–192.
Charyk, T., Polgar, D., Girotti, M. J., Vingilis, E., Caro, D. H., Corbett, B. A., & Parry, N. (2009). Evaluation of an Adolescent Hospital-based Injury Prevention Program. The Journal of Trauma, 66(5), 1451-1460.
Statistical Software
Caro, D. H., & Biecek, P. (2017). intsvy: An R Package for Analyzing International Large-Scale Assessment Data. Journal of Statistical Software, 81(7), doi: 10.18637/jss.v081.i07.
Caro, D. H., & Biecek, P. (2021). intsvy: International Assessment Data Manager. R package version 2.5. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=intsvy.
Online Presence
Caro, D.H., & Lenkeit, J. (2017). Why global education rankings don’t reveal the whole picture. The Conversation.
Caro, D.H. (2016). The R package ‘intsvy’: An alternative statistical tool for data analysis. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement Newsletter, 44, 11-13
Caro, D.H., & Lenkeit, J. (2015). Which countries punch above their weight in education rankings?. The Conversation. (>200k reads, case study invited to present at The Conversation event).