PISA 2006 results showed huge differences in educational attainment across Spanish regions. The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors explaining these differences. Our results indicate that differences in family characteristics of students from different regions are crucial in explaining...

El objetivo de la presente investigación es proponer políticas y acciones que contribuyan a mejorar el nivel del capital humano en la Costa Caribe colombiana. El diagnóstico de la educación en esta región se torna preocupante en aspectos relacionados con la cobertura, nivel de analfabetismo...

The Bologna Process: What is its origin? What are the final objectives of this university reform? Who will gain and who will lose by it? You do not have to do sociological research to find out that outside the university world nobody knows anything about it because even inside that world, the...

This research estimates the impact of Plan Ceibal in students’ achievement at public primary school in Uruguay. Plan Ceibal is the first national model of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) which is being carried out in Uruguay since 2007 in some provinces, but reached national scale during 2009. The...

This article studies from the hierarchical linear models, the hypothesis of positive incidence that the variables of pedagogy and educational commitment generate on the academic performance. For this, the scores obtained by 62769 middle school students in the 2012 PISA tests in 12 countries are...

This work has as main objective to determine the effect country, type of institution (its ownership, public or private) and their resources on educational outcomes for students of Latin-American education system from PISA 2009. The results obtained by applying a multilevel analysis reveal that...

This article studies from the hierarchical linear models, the hypothesis of positive incidence that the variables of pedagogy and educational commitment generate on the academic performance. For this, the scores obtained by 62769 middle school students in the 2012 PISA tests in 12 countries are...

This work has as main objective to determine the effect country, type of institution (its ownership, public or private) and their resources on educational outcomes for students of Latin-American education system from PISA 2009. The results obtained by applying a multilevel analysis reveal that...

Spanish Abstract: El sistema de promoción automática, en oposición al de retención escolar, asegura a los estudiantes el ingreso al siguiente nivel de escolaridad como medida para reducir la deserción y eliminar los costos de repetición. Este artículo examina el efecto de la introducción...

In this paper we are interested in investigating the student's performance in the ICFES test in Medellin, taking into account different inputs and the interaction between these inputs and outcomes. We characterize the teaching process by assuming that it could be described by an academic...