institutions in the formation of students’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Besides that, the role of school peers in the … formation of students’ cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. The main emphasis is on investigating the role of educational …

This paper discusses a method to compare progress in reading achievement from primary to secondary school across … different schools. Value-added models are preferred over raw scores as they better reflect school efforts. The method discussed … in this paper uses measures of achievement in primary schools from PIRLS and compares them to secondary school results …

successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA results are among the OECD’s highest, but the dispersion of performance is … student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between … Nouvelle-Zélande se montre performante et novatrice à de nombreux égards. Les résultats moyens obtenus à l’enquête PISA font …

dieser Reform auf die Schülerkompetenzen anhand von PISA-Daten analysiert und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass diese Reform die …

grade 6 to grade 4; students in high-track schools were not affected. To eliminate state specific and school …This paper evaluates a school reform in Bavaria that moved the timing of tracking in low- and middle-track schools from …-type-specific shocks, I estimate a triple-differences model using three PISA waves. The results indicate that the reform reduced the …

Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that … spending. More focused pre-school spending on disadvantaged children could improve skill formation. Better-targeted funding for … disadvantaged children combined with strengthened incentives for schools to attract and support these students would help raising …

großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …