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Yuan Teng; Kwok Kuen Tsang – Educational Studies, 2024
Educational decentralisation has been implemented globally. However, few studies have compared the effects of different decentralisation strategies on students' academic achievement in diverse cultural contexts. Using data from 49 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, this study attempts to fill…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Academic Achievement, Teacher Participation
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Sabine Meinck; Jörg-Henrik Heine; Julia Mang; Gabriel Nagy – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2024
This study uses evidence from a longitudinal survey (PISA Plus, Germany) to examine the potential of bias in international large-scale assessments (ILSAs). In PISA Plus, participation was mandatory at the first measurement point, but voluntary at the second measurement point. The study provides evidence for relevant selection bias regarding…
Descriptors: Bias, Risk, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
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Fernando Senar; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Andrés Sandoval-Hernández; Cecilio Lapresta-Rey – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This study aims to explore the effect of cultural capital on the perception of parental involvement policies offered by schools in various countries. Using PISA (2018) data, a multilevel model is implemented for each participant country to adopt a comparative perspective. While the results suggest a complex effect, moderated by idiosyncratic…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Parent Participation, School Policy, Cultural Differences
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Ninni Wahlström – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
How could the technicality arising from eleven percent of students being excluded from a PISA test in Sweden trigger a polarized debate followed by investigations by both the OECD and national authorities? This question is explored in the study by drawing on discursive institutionalism, especially the concept of normative background ideas,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Jiesi Guo; Herbert W. Marsh; Philip D. Parker; Xiang Hu – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Our study is among the first to provide a comprehensive review of cross-national patterns of gender differences in various STEM-related constructs--achievement, beliefs, attitudes, aspirations, and participation, concerning country-level gender equality. We complement our review with empirical analyses utilizing rigorous methodologies and richer…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, STEM Education, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
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Mehmet Karakus; Alisher Tlessov; Anas Hajar; Matthew Courtney – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Recent decades have witnessed a global expansion of private supplementary tutoring, known as shadow education--additional support in academic subjects that takes place outside of regular school hours. Using the data of 55 countries from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022, this study examines the association between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Private Education, Tutoring
OECD Publishing, 2024
Engagement and performance in mathematics at the upper secondary level have been the concern of successive governments in England. This report was commissioned as part of the country's policy reflections for transforming how maths is viewed and experienced in England. The report explores outcomes such as the share of students studying maths and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Educational Change
Lisa De Bortoli; Catherine Underwood; Tim Friedman; Eveline Gebhardt – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2024
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparative study of student performance directed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). PISA measures the cumulative outcomes of education by assessing how well 15-year-olds, who have nearly completed compulsory schooling in most…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students