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The impact of teacher skills on student performance across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014 - Preliminary version
Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing...
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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021
results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on determinants of students' performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 6, pp. 692-707
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Assessed by a teacher like me : race, gender and subjective evaluations
Ouazad, Amine - 2008
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Assessed by a teacher like me : race, gender, and subjecttive evaluations
Ouazad, Amine - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908564
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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 …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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Educational policies and the gender gap in test scores : a cross-country analysis
Hermann, Zoltán; Kopasz, Marianna - 2018
Girls tend to outperform boys in reading tests, while they usually lag behind boys in math. However, the size of the gender gap varies to a great extent between countries. While the existing literature explains these differences as being mainly due to cultural factors, this paper explores...
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International evidence on school tracking : a review
Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 7 (2009) 1, pp. 26-34
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