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The Effects of Private Schooling on Pupil Achievement: A Global Systemic Analysis
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M. Danish Shakeel; Angela K. Dills – Comparative Education, 2024
Globally, the private school share of enrollment increased from about 14 percent in 2000 to about 18 percent in 2019. We estimate the systemic effect of private enrollment share on learning outcomes. Estimates of the systemic effect of private school enrollment capture any competitive effects as well as any differences between public and private…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Science Achievement
The OECD's 'Well-Being 2030' Agenda: How PISA's Affective Turn Gets Lost in Translation
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Jeremy Rappleye; Hikaru Komatsu; Yukiko Uchida; Jeanne Tsai; Hazel Markus – Comparative Education, 2024
Well-being 2030 has become the latest rationale for the OECD's education work. This vision has given rise to new assessments of student well-being beginning with PISA 2015. The OECD, recognising the problems of PISA 2015, conceptualised a wider student well-being construct in PISA 2018, and attempted to measure 'students' feelings'. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Comparing OECD Educational Models through the Prism of PISA
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Bulle, Nathalie – Comparative Education, 2011
The PISA survey influences educational policies through an international competitive process which is not wholly rationally-oriented. Firstly, PISA league tables act normatively upon the definition of formal educational aims while the survey tests cannot evaluate the educational systems' relative strengths with regards to such aims. We argue that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Competition