Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While … 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly by international comparison and socio-economic and/or immigrant … backgrounds have a large impact. Another problem is that the proportion of younger people that completes tertiary education is …

Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing … Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the 2003 OECD PISA study, with the performance gap between immigrant and native … the PISA tests suggests that the reforms over the past decade or so to attenuate these difficulties have had considerable …

Study (TIMSS), the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), the Programme of International Reading Literacy …

), the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Programme of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS …

This paper analyzes the factors affecting the acquisition of skills of the teenagers who took the PISA 2006 test and … completed their primary education at a public school. The analysis is based on the estimation of an educational production … function, taking into account the data emerging from the combination of two sources of information: the PISA 2006 database and …

This paper uses large multi-country datasets on educational scores – namely PISA and TIMSS – to examine the factors …

effects. Empirical evidence then, using PISA 2006 and focusing on Italian case, shows that education of mothers is an issue …

terms of time devoted to supervision and spillover effects. Empirical evidence, using Italian PISA 2006, shows that highly …

pseudo-panel database is available. To do this we use the Basque Country data from PISA 2003 and 2006. The results suggest a …