Search Results - subject:"PISA data"

School Achievement of Pupils From the Lower Strata in Public, Private Government-Dependent and Private Government-Independent Schools: A cross-national test of the Coleman-Hoffer thesis

Corten, Rense; Dronkers, J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

comparable public schools. Dronkers and Robert (2003) found in PISA-data for 19 comparable countries that private government … social composition of the school. As a follow-up we now investigate, again with the PISA-data of these 19 countries, whether …

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School quality, educational attainment and aggregation bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2004

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261766

School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2003

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy.The analysis suggests that the probability of finding tatistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261014

School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2003

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy.The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

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Making the most of Norwegian Schools

Boarini, Romina - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Traditionally, the Norwegian compulsory education system has focused strongly on the linked goals of equal opportunities to learn, comprehensive and inclusive education. While some of these objectives have been met successfully, a number of educational outcomes, notably measures of pupil...

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Towards better Schools and more Equal Opportunities for Learning in Italy

Boarini, Romina - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Compulsory school education in Italy produces poor results in terms of 15-year olds’ performance on PISA tests, compared with other OECD countries, despite a relatively high level of expenditure. While the influence of social background is smaller than in many OECD countries, it is largely...

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Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates the reading of fiction books by 15-year-olds in 18 OECD countries. It appears that girls read fiction books more often than boys, whereas boys read comic books more often than girls. The intensity by which children read fiction books is influenced by parental education,...

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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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