This study finds that approaching 10% of the variation in high school student achievement is explained by teacher … effects in Australia. It uses data from the 2011 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) sample of Australian Year 8 …

employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for … discontinuity design (RDD) based on administrative rules on age of school enrolment. The class assigning mechanism operates via a … postponed the school starting age by 6 months and produced a large increase in the compliance rate. This enables one to gauge …

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School …) the My School website launch. We find scarce evidence of meaningful adjustments over time, but we do find evidence of … significantly different policies and practices across school groups. …

school in Australia through the My School website. Policy lessons are described to provide insight for OECD member countries …This case study describes the policy-making process in Australia leading to the public release of information on every … which may be grappling with similar issues in developing school accountability systems, particularly those working within …

Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

school than bilingual indigenous children who speak Spanish as a second language …