Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

Education has a fundamental role in promoting the integration of students with an immigrant background in host … outcomes for students with an immigrant background as, among others, they need to overcome adversities related to displacement …, socio-economic disadvantage and language barriers. Building on the 2018 Report “The Resilience of Students with an Immigrant …

gender segregation in occupational preferences. Students also differ by gender in selecting particular fields of employment … within status categories. These differences make up the horizontal segregation of students' expectations and, in PISA 2006 …

also on the student’s progress through education, as those children who were the youngest in their grade cohort at entry … parents of the initial disadvantage experienced by the youngest children in their first years of school. The paper concludes … International Student Assessment (PISA), this paper provides a comparative analysis of the impact of a student’s month of birth on …

International Survey (TALIS) of teachers of 15-year-old students with school-level data from the Programme for International Student … Assessment (PISA), a survey of 15-year-old students. The purpose of this study is to present an exploratory analysis of the … needs for support. Survey responses were collected from teachers and students in eight countries. Data from 26 610 teachers …

In 2015, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked students to describe their well-being in … addition to collecting information on students’ subject-specific skills. This paper provides a comprehensive overview and … students’ well-being. …

students with special education needs (SEN). As a result, some students are currently excluded from the PISA target population … at the sampling stage, and in some countries, exclusion rates are growing as more and more students are recognized as … countries which call for the inclusion of students with SEN in order to give every student the right to demonstrate their skills …

Students are much more than their grades. Beyond performing well in school, students must learn to manage their … visualisations that respond to the needs of different kinds of users. The proposed PISA dashboard on students’ well-being has the … potential to offer policy makers, educators, parents, and other stakeholders a comparative perspective on how well schools are …