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This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation. The report also...
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Value-added estimates are a significant improvement upon measures of school performance currently used in most education systems across OECD countries. They provide a fundamentally more accurate and valuable quantitative basis for school improvement planning, policy development and for enacting...
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This book presents the results of the project on Young Adults with Low Levels of Education, conducted jointly by the OECD and the Canadian Policy Research Networks. It examines the extent to which young men and women with low levels of education are marginalised, the role family background plays...
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At some point in their child’s education, many parents have considered whether it would be worth the expense to enrol … their child in a private school. For parents, private schools may offer a particular kind of instruction that is not … available in public schools. If private schools also attract higher-performing students and better teachers than public schools …
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It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all … OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact …, the difference between students who had attended for more than one year and those who had not attended at all averaged 54 …
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educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and …
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educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and …
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Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), this report examines the … performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing … students’ performance – such as their attitudes to school, their motivation and learning strategies as well as their social …
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and informal settings and how is it used by students? Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Student … Assessment (PISA), Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World? What PISA Studies Tell Us, examines whether access to … computers for students is equitable across countries and student groups; how students use ICT and what their attitudes are …
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students attend make a difference in performance; the relative impact of school climate, school policies and school resources …
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