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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522451
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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524932
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Schooling resources, educational institutions, and student performance : the international evidence
Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version
The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international … institutions, scrutiny of achievement, and teacher influence on teaching methods. A large influence of teacher unions on curriculum … are not caused by differences in schooling resources but are mainly due to differences in educational institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476923
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Better schools for Europe
Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger - In: EIB papers 6 (2001) 2, pp. 8-22
. Therefore, we speculate that a reform of the institutions which govern the incentives within European schooling systems may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011498701
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New evidence on the missing resource-performance link in education
Woessmann, Ludger - 2001
New evidence confirms the conclusion of former surveys that the link between school resources and student performance is generally missing in educational production. While the conventional within-country cross-section evidence remains controversial, recent contributions which control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473860
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 30 (2016) 3, pp. 3-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623143
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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement
Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516640
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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement
Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496971