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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Hanushek, Eric A.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten: Deutsche und internationale Evidenz

Schlotter, Martin; Wößmann, Ludger - 2010

TIMSS-, PISA-,IGLU- und DJI-Kinderpanel-Datensätze. Die teils neue Evidenz belegt, dass der Besuch …

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Does a generous welfare state crowd out student effort? Panel data evidence from international student tests

Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

Student achievement has been identified as an important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the hypothesis that redistributive government activities have a negative effect on investment in human capital using data from international comparative student achievement tests in...

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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005

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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nichtkognitive Fähigkeiten: deutsche und internationale Evidenz

Schlotter, Martin; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 3, pp. 99-120

TIMSS-, PISA-, IGLU- und DJI-Kinderpanel- Datensatze. Die teils neue Evidenz belegt, dass der Besuch frühkindlicher … on data from TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, and the DJI Children Longitudinal Study. The results show that attending preschool …

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Insights into survey error of large scale educational achievement surveys

Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2018

While educational achievement surveys revolutionised research on education crossnationally, the surveys have been repeatedly subject of heated debate since first results were published. This paper reviews existing research examining the design and methodology of educational achievement surveys....

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What Does Subject Knowledge Give for Its Applying in New Context. The First Results from Studies TIMSS-2011 and PISA‑2012

Tyumeneva, Yulia; Valdman, Alena; Carnoy, Martin - In: Educational Studies (2014) 1, pp. 8-24

Russian databases of international studies TIMSS and PISA. The sample included 4241 Russian students. They participated in … both studies TIMSS-2011 and PISA-2012. Based on the previous literature and content comparison of TIMSS-PISA math items we … argue that TIMSS items can represent formal subject knowledge, while PISA items represent real-life context problems. We …

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The Students Who Come to the University are Weak in Mathematics, Why and Where is the Problem?

Syam, Mahmoud; Chabi, Mohamed; Al Wadi, Muneer - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

8 and first year University students and the end of secondary stage. These international tests are TIMSS for grades 4 … and 8, PISA for grade 10, and ACT and ACCUPLACER for first year University students. It is found that the problem starts …

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2008

Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...

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The mathematics skills of school children: how does England compare to the high performing east Asian jurisdictions?

Jerrim, John; Choi, Álvaro - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

English policymakers have been disappointed with children’s performance on TIMSS and PISA, particularly in comparison …

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