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Testing
Bergbauer, Annika B.; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
over 6 waves in the international PISA student achievement test 2000-2015. Our empirical model exploits the country panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887083
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Institutional effects in a simple model of educational production
Bishop, John H.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2002
The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411167
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Class-size effects in school systems around the world : evidence from between-grade variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411229
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171330
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461554
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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. - 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/10009792478
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Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - 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/10010257594
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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016
international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454341
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
The international surveys of pupil achievement - PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS - have been widely used to compare … surveys, and especially their variation across countries. We investigate this issue drawing on data from PISA and PIRLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398844