. In particular, low life satisfaction among academically high-performing students from Confucian East Asia is found to be … contrast, high life satisfaction among Latin American students can be explained by high peer well-being, high meaning in life … life satisfaction. Meanwhile, competition and cooperation among students does only affect life satisfaction of students in …

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 …

What are students like as learners as they near the end of compulsory education? The answer matters greatly, not only … learners. This report analyses the results, focusing on students’ motivation, self-beliefs and use of various learning …

effective in fostering students’ sense of belonging and participation in school? These questions are of great concern to … information on students’ literacy skills, but also on their attitudes and values, their social backgrounds, and on important …

This paper studies the linkages between schools’ inputs and students’ performance in Latin America. We exploit the … and students’ performance in mathematics. First, this research shows that students’ characteristics and their environment … (i.e. sex, age and economic, social and cultural status of students and schools) explain close to 30% of the variation in …

Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Can they analyse, reason and communicate their ideas … are evaluated: problem solving and financial literacy. Students respond to a background questionnaire and, as an option …