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Underwood, Catherine – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2021
The most recent OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey enables educators, policy makers and the wider community to compare Australian students with each other, as well as with their counterparts across the world. PISA measures the extent to which 15-year-old students near the end of compulsory education have acquired the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Reading, Student Attitudes
Classick, Rachel; Gambhir, Geeta; Liht, Jose; Sharp, Caroline; Wheater, Rebecca – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
Differences in achievement between disadvantaged pupils and their more advantaged peers are a focus for policy in all parts of the UK. A gap in educational outcomes between pupils from less-affluent backgrounds compared to their peers is evident by the time they start school and only widens as they move through the school years. In 2018, nearly 80…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Classick, Rachel; Gambhir, Geeta; Liht, Jose; Sharp, Caroline; Wheater, Rebecca – UK Department for Education, 2021
Social mobility and improving the performance of disadvantaged pupils is a focus for policy in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The findings from PISA 2018 provide a unique opportunity to explore the impact of disadvantage on pupils aged 15, to contextualise achievement outcomes with information about home-life and school, as well as providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students