education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …-level data in combination with its longitudinal continuation in the LSAY data, to measure the degree to which individual PISA …

Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that …. Insufficient supply of high-quality vocational programmes and tertiary education study places hamper human capital formation and … growth. Stabilising and simplifying vocational education by more focus on high quality apprenticeships would support …

This paper presents an overview of gender differences in education outcomes in OECD countries. A rich set of indicators …-performance in education. Possible explanatory factors include incentives provided by changing employment opportunities for women …

other educational institutional features. Using data from the 2006 PISA survey, we study how central examinations affect the …

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students’ literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …

education systems. We use data from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) wave. Compared with previous … educational inequality of opportunity for students in different education contexts. The findings clearly indicate that the effects …

This paper uses two large multi-country datasets on educational scores – PISA and TIMSS – to examine the performance of … perception of a positive educational legacy, Russian scores are not stellar and have mostly deteriorated. Using an education …

Overall, the education system fares well by international comparison. Slovenia has one of the highest shares of the … population aged 25 to 64 to have completed at least upper secondary education, and ranks high in international educational … of the education system. Low enrolment rates in short vocational education programmes and in certain higher education …

This paper uses data from PISA 2006 on science, mathematics and reading to analyse immigrant school gaps – negative …