ABSTRACTChildren's development is fostered by both high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings and high quality home learning environments. As we know little about the interrelations between these two environments, we examine whether the child's attendance in a high quality...

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are...

Both, a high quality of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting and a high quality of the home learning environment foster children's development. However, we know little about the interactions between ECEC quality and the home learning environment. We examine whether the child's...

Durch die G8-Schulreform haben sich die PISA-Leistungen von GymnasiastInnen in der neunten Klasse verbessert. Insbesondere leistungsstärkere SchülerInnen schneiden bei den PISA-Tests besser ab, während Leistungsschwächere kaum oder gar nicht profitieren - sie scheinen Probleme mit dem...

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

Both, a high quality of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting and a high quality of the home learning environment foster children's development. However, we know little about the interactions between ECEC quality and the home learning environment. We examine whether the child's...

Durch die G8-Schulreform haben sich die PISA-Leistungen von GymnasiastInnen in der neunten Klasse verbessert. Insbesondere leistungsstärkere SchülerInnen schneiden bei den PISA-Tests besser ab, während Leistungsschwächere kaum oder gar nicht profitieren – sie scheinen Probleme mit dem...