OECD-PISA
ICT use at home for school related tasks: what is the effect on a student’s achievement? Empirical evidence from OECD PISA data
... on OECD PISA 2006 data for 33 countries, and adopted an “endogenous treatment model”, where the frequency of computer use is modelled on the basis of specific observable characteristics belonging to ...
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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
... the OECD-PISA consortium in order to administer the French version of the questionnaire to a random sample of students from Valle d’Aosta’s secondary ...
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Data fusion with international large scale assessments: a case study using the OECD PISA and TALIS surveys
... bine PISA and TALIS in order to more carefully and universally describe school systems, with the intent of reporting associations between performance, equality, and educa- tional policy, and how these factors ...
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Patterns of parental involvement in selected OECD countries : cross national analyses of PISA
... the OECD. PISA started in 2000 and takes place every three ...of PISA is to examine factors related to the educational attainment of 15-year olds, near the end of their compulsory ...education. ...
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Maths in Primary School
... the OECD among fifteen year old pupils, indicates Ireland’s performance in mathematics to be in the average ...from OECD countries shows that the greater the social inclusion in schools the better the pupil ...
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MULTILEVEL RELATIONS BETWEEN EXTERNAL ACCOUNTABILITY, INTERNAL ACCOUNTABILITY, AND MATH ACHIEVEMENT: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS
... The past two decades have seen educational accountability combined with student as- sessment spread fast across educational systems worldwide. Although there exist substantial cross-national variations in specific policy ...
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Validation study of the PISA 2000, PISA 2003 and TIMSS-2003 international studies of pupil attainment
... the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) studies in 2000 and ...while PISA emphasises literacy, using the term to apply to science and mathematics as well as reading, all three being ...and ...
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Budgetary balances and restrictions in the European Monetary Union
... The high level of unemployment causes a large fiscal drag. Just prior to reforms in 1992, transfer payments for unemployment benefits and sick leave pay grew 21 percent (OECD, 1994e, p. 79). Reform of the labor ...
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Background questionnaires of PISA: a study of the assessment indicators
... The PISA assessment system has generated and continues to generate intense debate about its structure and ...the PISA tests, used in different studies and the results of these ...to PISA and results, ...
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The transformative capacity of play and the arts for learning and student engagement: implications for pre-service teacher education
... Paris, France: OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Retrieved from http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/PISA-2009-In-. Brief.pdf..[r] ...
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Additional analysis of Wales’ performance in PISA 2012
... (mathematics, science and reading) is related to performance in the corresponding GCSE subjects. The relationship is expressed through a correlation coefficient. A correlation coefficient describes the strength of a ...
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Achievement of 15 year olds in England : PISA 2012 national report (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment), December 2013
... the OECD on ...the OECD average), pupils in England were less likely to attribute the failing to external factors such as hard course materials (61 per cent compared with the OECD average of 71 per ...
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa
... Test scores on achievement tests depend on both cognitive and noncognitive skills. The predictive power of achievement tests is therefore potentially due to all components. The question of this paper is whether it is ...
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Neoliberal performance and resistance in Australia's flexible learning sector
... In Australia, the social and economic consequences of educational disengagement have been at the forefront of educational policymaking and debate for well over a decade. Chapter 1 explored international trends in this ...
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Readability analysis of PISA 2012 mathematics, science and reading assessments
... The results of the analysis for PS2 using all four readability tests show that the mean reading age required to access the PISA science stimuli ranges from 8.3 to 15.8 years. The New Dale-Chall test calculates the ...
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PISA DEBATES AND BLAME MANAGEMENT AMONG THE NORWEGIAN EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES: PRESS COVERAGE AND DEBATE INTENSITY IN THE NEWSPAPERS
... from PISA 2000 (released December 2001) gave legitimacy to this turnaround (OECD, ...in PISA as evidence of successful direction: ‘The results from PISA 2009 ...since PISA 2006’ ...
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Knowledge of public health informatics among Italian medical residents: design and preliminary validation of a questionnaire
... (10) Hygiene and Epidemiology Section, Department of Translational Research, New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (11) Postgraduate School of Hygiene[r] ...
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Human Mobility Control and Labour Market of Migrants in Sicily the Case Study of the Cara of Mineo
... Human Mobility Control and Labour Market of Migrants in Sicily the Case Study of the Cara of Mineo Antonella Elisa Castronovo Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, [r] ...
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SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND PHYSICS TASKS
... these factors imply that the issue of physics tasks cannot be treated lightly and that it is necessary to seriously consider and investigate the causes of the current situation. it is simply not possible to exclude ...
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The Multilateral Tax Instrument: How to Avoid a Stalemate on Distributional Issues?
... The idea that states should have a “fair share” of the MNE corporate tax base is intuitively appealing; it may develop into a kind of battle cry of NGOs defending developing countries’ tax interests. Finding a workable ...
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