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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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It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all … OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact …, the difference between students who had attended for more than one year and those who had not attended at all averaged 54 …
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Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. In addition …, students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are twice as likely to be low performers. Lack of fairness and inclusion … all children succeed in their schooling. …
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is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables …Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged … background -- resilient students -- are the focus of Against the Odds. The report shows that overcoming barriers to achievement …
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-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual … schools and teachers to meet the particular needs of every student. Other countries group students, whether in different … schools or in different classes within schools, with the aim of serving students according to their particular academic …
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educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and …
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educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and …
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to which students and schools with different socio-economic backgrounds have access to similar educational resources, and … and different aspects of socio-economic background. Chapter 4 compares the performance of students with an immigrant … background with the performance of other students. Chapter 5 analyses the impact of socio-economic background of schools on …
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