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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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Whether in flight from conflict, with the hope of building a better life, or to seize a social or economic opportunity, people have been crossing borders for as long as there have been borders to cross. Modern means of transportation and communication, the globalisation of the labour market, and...
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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