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This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than mere access to education, is what impacts economic...
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As school after school shuts down in the face of the Covid-19 crisis (in now more than 140 countries), online learning opportunities have been elevated from a bonus extracurricular facility to a critical lifeline for education.
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This sixth volume of PISA 2012 results examines 15-year-old students’ performance in financial literacy in the 18 … to students’ and their families’ background and to students’ mathematics and reading skills. The volume also explores … students’ access to money and their experience with financial matters. In addition, it provides an overview of the current …
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Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Can they analyse, reason and communicate their ideas … are evaluated: problem solving and financial literacy. Students respond to a background questionnaire and, as an option … the parents through a third optional questionnaire. Sixty-six countries and economies, including all 34 OECD member …
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This report focuses on the development of reading proficiency during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. The span of time between the ages of 15 and 24 is a critical period of development for young people. Once compulsory education is completed, individual decisions about...
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The PISA 2009 Technical Report describes the methodology underlying the PISA 2009 survey. It examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses. The reader will find a wealth of...
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. Tests are typically administered to between 4 500 and 10 000 students in each country. PISA assesses how far students near …
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countries have been able to bring previously out-of-school children into the education system and improve performance at the …
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from the 2012 data collection (PISA 2012) focuses on mathematics and compares the competencies of students in 65 countries … and economies. Around 510 000 students between the ages of 15 years 3 months and 16 years 2 months participated in PISA … because they are obtained from samples of students, rather than from a census of all students, and they are obtained using a …
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between 4 500 and 10 000 students in each country. PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have …
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