Search Results - subject:"Resilient students"

Does public spending improve educational resilience? A longitudinal analysis of OECD-PISA data

Agasisti, Tommaso; Longobardi, Sergio; Regoli, Andrea - 2014

“Resilient students” are those who, despite their disadvantaged background, are able to obtain good educational results …. This paper proposes a statistical procedure for identifying the proportion of resilient students for countries …

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Educational institutions, resources, and students' resiliency: an empirical study about OECD countries

Agasisti, Tommaso; Longobardi, Sergio - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 1055-1067

This paper uses the OECD-PISA 2009 data for studying the factors associated with the probability of poor students being resilient, i.e. obtaining good test scores despite their disadvantaged socioeconomic background. The results reveal that not only students' individual characteristics matter,...

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Inequality in education: can Italian disadvantaged students close the gap? A focus on resilience in the Italian school system

Agasisti, Tommaso; Longobardi, Sergio - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

international assessments have highlighted that in each country there is a relevant proportion of “resilient students”, i …. The aim is to target a specific category of resilient students, namely those who are characterised by a low socioeconomic …

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