This sixth volume of PISA 2012 results examines 15-year-old students’ performance in financial literacy in the 18 … to students’ and their families’ background and to students’ mathematics and reading skills. The volume also explores … students’ access to money and their experience with financial matters. In addition, it provides an overview of the current …

This first volume of PISA 2012 results summarises the performance of students in PISA 2012. It describes how … performance is defined, measured and reported, and then provides results from the assessment, showing what students are able to do … relationship between the frequency and intensity of students’ exposure to subject content in school, what is known as “opportunity …

harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …

It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically "self-select" their … decisions. We exploit the random assignment of college students to professors in a large body of required coursework to examine … in contemporaneous and follow-on related courses, but the effects are quite heterogeneous across subjects. Students of …

availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the … education level of their parents …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long … basic skills apparently led to generally reduced performance by high-achieving students, while an accountability system … other technical subjects. Both types of systems are associated with increased "cramming" by students in college. The results …

We explore the extent to which schools manipulate the composition of students in the test-taking pool in order to …

students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more modest …

students. However, very little empirical work has to date been completed on this topic. This paper provides the first empirical … every third, fourth, and fifth grader in a large school district over four years, we match students' test score gains and … substantial evidence that higher grading standards benefit students. We find that these effects are not uniform: High …