Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. Across OECD countries …, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in how well students …

In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common …% of students doing one of these every day or almost every day. Students who spent more than six hours per day on line … average across OECD countries, 7% of students spend this much time on line during a typical weekday. …

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 …

Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high standards internationally tend to be the same countries where … these young adults tend to perform well at the age of 26 to 28. School systems need to ensure that their students perform at …

measures students’ ability to apply their knowledge in three core subjects – science, reading and mathematics – to familiar … international assessment – measures students’ ability to solve problems collaboratively in 52 education systems around the world. …

Schools are not only places where students acquire academic skills; they are also social environments where children … can develop the social and emotional competencies that they need to thrive. Yet despite the global interest in students … life at school. The data from PISA 2015 show that students differ greatly, both between and within countries, in how …

Many students view PISA as a low-stakes assessment. Their lack of willingness to give the assessment “their all” is … reflected in students’ performance. Boys are often disengaged, resulting in low test performance. Disengagement should be …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …