Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very … differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar … socio-economic status is smaller in school systems with large immigrant populations and where immigrant students are as …

Most students think that what they learned in school is useful for them or their future. Students’ attitudes towards … school are associated with their reading skills. Students who report that the climate at their school is conducive to …

learning. Teachers tend to give girls and socio-economically advantaged students better school marks, even if they don’t have … better performance and attitudes than boys and socio-economically disadvantaged students. It seems that marks not only … measure students’ progress in school, they also indicate the skills, behaviours, habits and attitudes that are valued in …

Children spend about a third of their waking hours in school during most weeks in the year. Thus, schools have a … significant impact on children’s quality of life – including their relationships with peers and adults, and their dispositions … towards learning and life more generally. Longitudinal studies suggest that students’ results on the PISA test are correlated …

The percentage of students who expect to complete university is highest in Korea (80%) and lowest in Latvia (25%). Many … high-performing students do not expect to go to university, representing potentially lost talent to an economy and society … while many low-performing students think they will make it to university, even if their current performance suggests they …

While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on … it shrank between 2003 and 2012. Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio … performance among students and schools, other factors are more important in determining the performance of school systems as a …

In most countries and economies, students who attend schools in urban areas tend to perform at higher levels than other … students. Socio-economic status explains only part of the performance difference between students who attend urban schools and … other students. Schools in urban settings are larger, tend to benefit from better educational resources, and often enjoy …

Only in some countries is a larger proportion of immigrant students in schools related to lower student performance … – and this relationship is mostly explained by the concentration of disadvantaged students in these schools. Immigrant … students from the same country of origin and similar socio-economic background often perform differently in different school …