to gather information from students, schools and parents on students’ home backgrounds, students’ approaches to learning … to assess how well students read, navigate and understand electronic texts. Additionally, this publication provides the …

students for success in college and the workplace: recruit, develop, reward, and retain effective teachers and principals … assessing the knowledge and skills of secondary school students. This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of …

children who are not at school, and the ways in which data are used. It then seeks to identify assessment practices in these …

, and parents of students who sit the PISA test can choose to complete a questionnaire about the home environment. Seventy … 2012. A questionnaire about students’ background is distributed to all participating students. Students may also choose to …

economic and social well-being. Access to education by itself is an incomplete goal for development; many students leave the …

includes analyses of the policy implications in the domains of system management and resource distribution, students and …

analysis of student performance on individual mathematics test items in order to reveal students’ strengths and weaknesses …

decade, students in Japan have become more engaged in learning. However, the government aspires to improve learning outcomes … reforming its education system not only to produce better learning outcomes, but to equip students with the skills they need to … second in a series of reports examining how education systems are handling the challenge of preparing their students for a …

of students by ability or socio-economic status. At the macro level, school segregation can deprive children of … choice, especially how certain aspects of school-choice policies may be associated with sorting students into different … opportunities to learn, play and communicate with other children from different social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which can …

reading literacy, plus an evaluation of students’ global competence – their ability to understand and appreciate the … the questionnaires distributed to students and school principals used to elicit information about student backgrounds and … the school learning environment, as well as some questionnaires distributed to parents and teachers to assess factors …