großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …

, we find that almost 70% of the 43-point increase (more than one standardized school year) in the PISA scores of first …-generation immigrant students in an environment with stagnant Swiss PISA results was due to changes in the individual background … characteristics of the new immigrants (direct effect) and improved school composition (lower shares of students who did not speak the …

countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten … years reveals that on average female students underperform (outperform) males in maths (reading) test scores in most of the … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …

substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on credits earned, test scores, high school graduation and college enrollment … students with below average reading skills, emphasizing the need to target interventions toward appropriately skilled students. …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and … outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition …

International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students’ literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive … students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation … competitive behaviour is negatively evaluated by schoolmates, especially when the class is more homogeneous in terms of students …

This paper uses two large multi-country datasets on educational scores – PISA and TIMSS – to examine the performance of … production function, we distinguish between individual and family background factors and those relating to the school and … of school autonomy – but there are also some clear particularities in the Russian case. …