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 …

What are students like as learners as they near the end of compulsory education? The answer matters greatly, not only … learners. This report analyses the results, focusing on students’ motivation, self-beliefs and use of various learning …

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 …

-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 …

, parents and students struggle to determine the merits of shorter or longer school days or school years, how much time should … how students use learning time, both in and out of school. What are the ideal conditions to ensure that students use their … learning time efficiently? What can schools do to maximise the learning that occurs during the limited amount of time students …

educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and …