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Explaining urban-rural differences in educational achievement in Thailand : evidence from PISA literacy data
Kiatanantha Lounkaew - In: Economics of education review 37 (2013), pp. 213-225
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The effectiveness of vocational versus general secondary education : evidence from the PISA 2012 for countries with early tracking
Kuzmina, Julia; Carnoy, Martin - In: International journal of manpower 37 (2016) 1, pp. 2-24
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PISA 2009 Results: What Makes a School Successful? : Resources, Policies and Practices (Volume IV)
2010
, Chapter 1 presents a summary of features shared by "successful" school systems. Chapter 2 details how resources, policies and … organisational features (how students are sorted into grades, schools, and programmes, school autonomy, etc.) of schools and systems … (behaviours, discipline, parental involvement, school leadership, etc.) and how they affect performance. The final chapter …
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Private or public school advantage? : evidence from 40 countries using PISA 2012-Mathematics
Sakellariou, Christos N. - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 29, pp. 2875-2892
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The experience of middle-income countries participating in PISA 2000-2015
Lockheed, Marlaine E.; Prokic-Bruer, Tijana; Shadrova, Anna - 2015
countries, and by the World Bank as part of its on-going dialogue with its client countries regarding participation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421855
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The experience of middle-income countries participating in PISA 2000-2015
Lockheed, Marlaine E.; Prokic-Bruer, Tijana; Shadrova, Anna - 2015
countries, and by the World Bank as part of its on-going dialogue with its client countries regarding participation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447296
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National testing policies and educator based testing for accountability : the role of selection in student achievement
Smith, William C, - In: OECD journal: economic studies (2017), pp. 131-149
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Green at Fifteen? : How 15-Year-Olds Perform in Environmental Science and Geoscience in PISA 2006
2009
The OECD’s PISA 2006 assessment of the science competencies of 15-year-olds offers the first comprehensive and internationally comparative knowledge base of students’ knowledge about the environment and environment-related issues. Green at Fifteen? presents an analysis of this knowledge...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958608
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Does the quality of pre-primary education pay off in secondary school? : an international comparison using PISA 2003
Schütz, Gabriela - 2009
Attendance of pre-primary institutions is positively associated with PISA test scores in most countries. Several indicators of structural quality of pre-primary education are identified that can account for the variation in the estimated coefficients on pre-primary attendance across countries,...
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