School accountability is one of the most controversial recent reforms taking place in education systems around the … that, under higher levels of accountability, higher school autonomy on curriculum management and assessment could render …

overlaps with two distinct school cohorts. School-entry regulations are used as an exogenous source of variation for grade …) linearity assumptions, make it possible to account for differences in school-starting age across students who are expected to be … in different grades. On average, students’ test scores increase by about one-fifth of a standard deviation over a school …

extent to which , national policy actors use PISA in policies and practices, to evaluate and improve school …

School systems aspire to provide equal opportunity for all, irrespective of socio-economic status (SES). Much of the … criticism of recent school reforms that introduce accountability, autonomy, and choice emphasizes their potentially negative … in school systems employing these institutional features. The rigorous micro-econometric analyses are based on the PISA …

This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning school choice schemes, and how they intertwine with equity … considerations, through a literature review and analysis of the effects different types of school choice programmes have on equity …. In the last 25 years, more than two-thirds of OECD countries have increased school choice opportunities for parents. The …

Accountability, autonomy, and choice play a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries. This report … provides new evidence on whether students perform better in school systems that have such institutional measures in place. We … of a large set of student, family, school, and country characteristics. The student-level data used in the analysis comes …

in 2009 and substantively changed the school inspection system. Its analysis looks in particular at the co … of the prior inspection system, the reform combined internal and external evaluation in school supervision practice and … external school evaluation. The overall goals and aims of the reform gained the support of the various stakeholders. However …