This paper uses student answers to publicly released questions from an international testing agency together with statistical methods from Item Response Theory to place secondary students from two Indian states -Orissa and Rajasthan -on a worldwide distribution of mathematics achievement. These...

Gender has been among the most pervasive forms of inequality across all classes, social groups and communities especially in developing countries. Literature indicates evident gender bias in labor market opportunities including wage gap, which can be partially explained by performance in...

This paper uses student answers to publicly released questions from an international testing agency together with statistical methods from Item Response Theory to place secondary students from two Indian states -Orissa and Rajasthan -on a worldwide distribution of mathematics achievement. These...