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Accounting for Educational Expectations and Achievement among Native and Migrant Students in Qatar
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Jibril Ali; Hassan Alsakhe; Ibrahim Ibrahim; Nabil Khattab; Muznah Madeeha; Mustafa Shouia – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The study draws on the theory of 'migrant optimism' and anticipated discrimination to examine whether a gap in educational expectations and achievement exists between immigrant and native students in Qatar and explores whether the impact of educational expectations on educational achievement is contingent upon the migratory status of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Is PISA More Important to School Reforms than Educational Research? The Selective Use of Authoritative References in Media and in Parliamentary Debates
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Lundahl, Christian; Serder, Margareta – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020
Two separate data searches underlie this analysis of how references to educational research and to PISA are used in the Swedish education debate. The data consist of 380 newspaper articles from the eight largest print media outlets in Sweden and 200 protocols from parliamentary debates (2000 to 2016) that made explicit reference to 'PISA' and/or…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Understanding Validity Issues in International Large Scale Assessments
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Meiko Lin; Erin Bumgarner; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This policy brief, the third in the AERI-NEPC eBrief series "Understanding validity issues around the world", discusses validity issues surrounding International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs. ILSA programs, such as the well-known Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
International Comparative Assessments: Broadening the Interpretability, Application and Relevance to the United States. Research in Review 2012-5
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Di Giacomo, F. Tony; Fishbein, Bethany G.; Buckley, Vanessa W. – College Board, 2013
Many articles and reports have reviewed, researched, and commented on international assessments from the perspective of exploring what is relevant for the United States' education systems. Researchers make claims about whether the top-performing systems have transferable practices or policies that could be applied to the United States. However,…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, International Assessment, Relevance (Education), Testing Programs
Equity and Segregation in the Spanish Education System
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Ferrer, Ferran; Ferrer, Gerard; Baldellou, Jose Luis Castel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
This article discusses educational inequalities within the territorial context of Spain, and more particularly in the autonomous community of Catalonia. The analysis, which takes a comparative international approach, looks at the question from two points of view. First, from the angle of students, an analysis is made of the impact produced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Global Approach, Equal Education