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The effect heterogeneity of central examinations: evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS-Repeat and PISA
Wossmann, Ludger - In: Education Economics 13 (2005) 2, pp. 143-169
This paper uses extensive student-level micro databases of three international student achievement tests to estimate heterogeneity in the effect of external exit examinations on student performance along three dimensions. First, quantile regressions show that the effect tends to increase with...
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence
Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest …
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What Does Subject Knowledge Give for Its Applying in New Context. The First Results from Studies TIMSS-2011 and PISA‑2012
Tyumeneva, Yulia; Valdman, Alena; Carnoy, Martin - In: Educational Studies (2014) 1, pp. 8-24
Russian databases of international studies TIMSS and PISA. The sample included 4241 Russian students. They participated in … both studies TIMSS-2011 and PISA-2012. Based on the previous literature and content comparison of TIMSS-PISA math items we … argue that TIMSS items can represent formal subject knowledge, while PISA items represent real-life context problems. We …
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The Students Who Come to the University are Weak in Mathematics, Why and Where is the Problem?
Syam, Mahmoud; Chabi, Mohamed; Al Wadi, Muneer - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
8 and first year University students and the end of secondary stage. These international tests are TIMSS for grades 4 … and 8, PISA for grade 10, and ACT and ACCUPLACER for first year University students. It is found that the problem starts …
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The mathematics skills of school children: how does England compare to the high performing east Asian jurisdictions?
Jerrim, John; Choi, Álvaro - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013
English policymakers have been disappointed with children’s performance on TIMSS and PISA, particularly in comparison …
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Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?
Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This …
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A new International Database on Education Quality: 1965-2010
Altinok, Nadir; Diebolt, Claude; Meulemeester, Jean-Luc De - HAL - 2012
The aim of this paper is to propose a new database allowing a comparative evaluation of the relative performance of schooling systems around the world. We measure this performance through pupils achievement in standardized tests. We merge all existing regional and international student...
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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Study (TIMSS), the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the Progress in International Reading Literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763825
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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700868
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Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Study (TIMSS), the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), the Programme of International Reading Literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700954