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The use (and misuse) of PISA in guiding policy reform: the case of Spain?
Choi, Ãlvaro; Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2015
Assessment (PISA) 2012 results. These reforms were mainly implemented in secondary education based upon the assumption that this … serves as a note of caution against simplistic interpretation of the PISA rankings; policymakers must take a more nuanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273265
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Emigrants from Great Britain: what do we know about their lives?
Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2015
Each year more than 300,000 individuals leave Great Britain to start a new life overseas. Indeed, recent estimates suggest that up to 4.7 million British nationals now live abroad. Yet, in contrast to the substantial literature on the economic and social welfare of immigrants into Great Britain,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253086
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Disadvantaged children’s ``low'' educational expectations: Are the US and UK really so different to other industrialized nations?
Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011
In most countries, children from disadvantaged backgrounds are under-represented amongst the undergraduate population. One explanation is that they do not see higher education as a realistic goal; that it is ‘not for the likes of them’. In this paper, I use the Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644123
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Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants in Great Britain
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010
Accurate estimates of the extent of ethnic parity amongst benefit claimants are very important for policymakers who provide interventions for these groups. We use new administrative data on benefit claimants in Great Britain to document differences in labour market outcomes between Ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542889
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Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010
survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which sets response … enough by the PISA organisers to publish the results, and 2003, when response rates were a little lower and deemed of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542893
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills: Are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2012
The international surveys of pupil achievement – PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS – have been widely used to compare … surveys, and especially their variation across countries. We investigate this issue drawing on data from PISA and PIRLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132453
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University access for disadvantaged children: A comparison across English speaking countries
Jerrim, John; Vignoles, Anna; Finnie, Ross - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2012
In this paper we consider whether certain countries are particularly adept (or particularly poor) at getting children from disadvantaged homes to study for a bachelor’s degree. A series of university access models are estimated for four English speaking countries (England, Canada,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132455
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Why do East Asian children perform so well in PISA? An investigation of Western-born children of East Asian descent
Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
Assessment (PISA) rankings. This has caught the attention of Western policymakers, who want to know why East Asian children … obtain such high PISA scores, and what can be done to replicate their success. In this paper I investigate whether children … of East Asian descent, who were born and raised in a Western country (Australia), also score highly on the PISA test. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132462
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England's "plummeting" PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline
Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study … via a case study for England, where apparent decline in PISA test performance has caused policymakers much concern …. Results suggest that England's drop in the PISA international ranking is not replicated in TIMSS, and that this contrast may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132463