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Do Parents' Occupations Have an Impact on Student Performance?

OECD - 2014

Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while … students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. The strength of the …. Finland and Japan achieve high levels of performance by ensuring that the children of parents who work in elementary …

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Students’ numeracy skills and practices

OECD - 2018

The results of the Survey of Adult Skills confirm that there is a strong link between the level of numeracy performance and the use of these skills in practice. In view of these findings, countries could further encourage the teaching of numeracy-related disciplines in a wider variety of higher...

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Does it matter how much time students spend on line outside of school?

OECD - 2016

In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common …% of students doing one of these every day or almost every day. Students who spent more than six hours per day on line … average across OECD countries, 7% of students spend this much time on line during a typical weekday. …

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The High Cost of Low Educational Performance : The Long-run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes

2010

This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation. The report also...

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PISA: Programme for International Student Assessment (Edition 2015)

OECD - 2015

. 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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Education Database: Enrolment of international students by origin (Edition 2018)

OECD - 2018

This dataset contains the number of people who physically crossed an international border between two countries and are studying in a given education programme in the reference period of the data collection, by sex.

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