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Yuan, Zhenguo; Tan, Jiang; Ye, Renmin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Using an international education database, PISA 2012, this study compares 15-year-old students' mathematics anxiety and its relationships with educational issues among five Asia Pacific economies (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Shanghai, & Singapore), using descriptive, figural, partial correlative, multiple regressive, and factor analysis…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
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dos Santos, Roberta Alvarenga; Paulista, Cássio Rangel; da Hora, Henrique Rego Monteiro – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
The demand for in-depth studies on educational data presupposes the application of technologies that allow data analysis of vast quantities, and subsequently, drawing relevant information and knowledge. The research objective herein is to employ data mining techniques on PISA databases to identify potential patterns that may explain the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Gil-Izquierdo, María; Han, Seong Won – Education Economics, 2020
In this paper, we have employed data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, 2012 edition) on the EU-15 countries in order to investigate the effect of using ICT at home on achievement. By employing Propensity Score Matching, we provide robust evidence that in most countries there is a negative association between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Use, Homework, Family Environment
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Shala, Arif; Grajcevci, Albulene – Journal of Learning for Development, 2023
The current analysis aims to research the impact of ICT usage on students' achievement in the 2018 PISA assessment, specifically achievement in mathematics, science and reading scales. In this assessment, a total of 5,058 randomly selected students from 224 schools across Kosovo took part in the study. In addition, to the subscales assessing…
Descriptors: Internet, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Sulkunen, Sari; Niemi, Pekka; Ahonen, Timo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
The present study examined gender gap in Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) Reading and mediators of the gender gap in a Finnish sample (n = 1,309). We examined whether the gender gap in PISA Reading performance can be understood via the effects of reading fluency, achievement behaviour (mastery orientation and task-avoidant…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Reading Fluency, Recreational Reading
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Pllana, Duli – World Journal of Education, 2022
Highschool homework as an integral part of the study skills benefits students' learning outcomes significantly. Consistency of completing homework contributes to rising scores in any given assignment such as quizzes, regular tests, standardized tests, etc. The purpose of homework aims at different targets and it is designed for specific groups and…
Descriptors: Homework, Learning Processes, High School Students, Study Skills
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Suter, Larry E. – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2019
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) by the OECD measures student study time during formal school periods and during periods of out-of-school-time (OST). The purpose of these items is to account for differences in country to country achievement levels. However, analyses of the impact of additional study time on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Yang, Wenjie; Fan, Guorui – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This study analyzes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data, revealing that the test itself reflects China's educational problems as well as the resultant effect of digital governance. Examining the root cause of these problems, this study demonstrates that the education reforms implemented in response to the PISA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Bowd, Justin; Bowles, Terry; McKenzie, Vicki – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2016
Recent reports based on PISA data have shown a generally positive relationship between the amount of time spent on homework and achievement, and a negative relationship between a measure of socioeconomic status and homework time for secondary students. These findings suggest that homework practices are either reflecting or contributing to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Predictor Variables, Homework
Loveless, Tom – Brookings Institution, 2014
This year's Brown Center Report on American Education represents the third installment of volume three and the 13th issue overall since the publication began in 2000. Three studies are presented. All three revisit a topic that has been investigated in a previous Brown Center Report. The topics warrant attention again because they are back in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Common Core State Standards, Achievement Tests
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Güzeller, Cem Oktay; Eser, Mehmet Taha; Aksu, Gökhan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
This study attempts to determine the factors affecting the mathematics achievement of students in Turkey based on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2012 and the correct classification ratio of the established model. The study used mathematics achievement as a dependent variable while sex, having a study room, preparation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students, Grade 10
OECD Publishing, 2019
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning…
Descriptors: Test Results, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Xia, Nailing – RAND Corporation, 2010
There is considerable debate about the relative importance of family versus school factors in producing academic and nonacademic student outcomes, and whether and how their impacts vary across different student groups. In addition to critically reviewing and synthesizing earlier work, this study extends the literature by (a) using the ECLS-K, a…
Descriptors: Blacks, Whites, Asians, Latin Americans
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Schneider, Thorsten – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2004
Selecting elite students out of a huge collective is a difficult task. The main problem is to provide automated processes to reduce human work. ECMS (Educational Contest Management System) is an online tool approach to help--fully or partly automated--with the task of selecting such elite students out of a mass of candidates. International tests…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Automation