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Inequality of Learning amongst Immigrant Children in Industrialised Countries
Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Literature examining immigrants’ educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822206
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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Study (TIMSS), the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the Progress in International Reading Literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763825
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Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Study (TIMSS), the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), the Programme of International Reading Literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700954
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Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison
Viola, SchnepfSylke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
), the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Programme of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703031
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How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Programme of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566721
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Chancengleichheit und lebenslanges Lernen: Zur Zukunft der Bildung in Deutschland
Ritzen, Jo; Hinte, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884068
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Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884354
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Student Scores in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from PISA 2009
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959841
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An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …-level data in combination with its longitudinal continuation in the LSAY data, to measure the degree to which individual PISA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271990
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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students’ literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233797