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Social segregation in secondary schools : how does England compare with other countries?
Jenkins, Stephen (contributor);  … - 2006
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross … for sampling variation in the estimates. England is shown to be a middle-ranking country, as is the USA. High segregation … Scotland. In explaining England’s position, we argue that its segregation is mostly accounted for by unevenness in social …
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Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? : a focus on the English PISA sample
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - 2014
educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398731
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The Mathematics Skills of School Children : How Does England Compare to the High Performing East Asian Jurisdictions?
Jerrim, John - 2013
to the results of young people from East Asia. In this paper we provide new insight into the England – East Asia gap by …, reforming the secondary school system may not be the most effective way for England to ‘catch up'. Rather earlier intervention …
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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
This study aims to identify the main determinants of student performance in reading and maths across eight European Union countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia). Based on student-level data from the OECD’s PISA 2018 survey and by means of the...
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Social Segregation in Secondary Schools : How Does England Compare with Other Countries?
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England's secondary schools, employing a cross … for sampling variation in the estimates. England is shown to be a middle-ranking country, as is the USA. High segregation … Scotland. In explaining England's position, we argue that its segregation is mostly accounted for by unevenness in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317676
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Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries : Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
International surveys of educational achievement are typically analysed in isolation from each other with no indication as to whether new results confirm or contradict those from earlier surveys. The paper pulls together results from four surveys to compare average levels of achievement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319196
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Extern vergleichende Prüfungen verbessern die Schülerleistungen
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara; Hanushek, E.A.; Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 20, pp. 16-19
Weltweit steigt der Einsatz schulischer Leistungsüberprüfungen. Eine neue Studie des ifo Instituts, die die Auswirkungen von Reformen von Tests und Prüfungssystemen in 59 Ländern in den Jahren zwischen 2000 und 2015 anhand der PISA-Mikrodaten von über 2 Mio. Schülern untersucht, zeigt,...
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004
It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? : Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262033
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Gender Equality in Educational Achievement : An East-West Comparison
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender equality in educational achievement. There are...
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