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A Maturing Global Testing Regime Meets the World Economy: Test Scores and Economic Growth, 1960-2012
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Direct linkKamens, David H. – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article considers the growth of the international testing regime. It discusses sources of growth and empirically examines two related sets of issues: (1) the stability of countries' achievement scores, and (2) the influence of those national scores on subsequent economic development over different time lags. The article suggests that…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Scores, Achievement Tests, Economic Development
Canadian and United States Students' Performances on the OECD's PISA 2012 Problem-Solving Assessment
Dossey, John A.; Funke, Joachim – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2016
This article presents an overview of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 Problem-Solving assessment. The assessment examined the capabilities of 15-year-olds in 40 nations and four large international cities, as well as the Canadian Provinces, to solve a set…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
Download full textCarlson, Ronald; McChesney, Christopher – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The authors examined the state of United States student academic readiness for higher education from a global perspective utilizing data from the Organization of Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests over a half a million 15 year old student's skills and knowledge.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Preparation, Scores, Comparative Analysis
Lockheed, Marlaine E. – World Bank, 2015
The number of countries that regularly participate in international large-scale assessments has increased sharply over the past 15 years, with the share of countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment growing from one-fifth of countries in 2000 to over one-third of countries in 2015. What accounts for this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina – Education Economics, 2015
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what "could" happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the…
Descriptors: Government Role, Educational Quality, Governance, Correlation
Cheung, Hoi Yan; Chan, Alex W. H. – Research in Education, 2008
This study investigates the relationship between Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores in mathematics, science and reading and the employment rates in the following four economic activities: research and development, agriculture, industry, and service industries. Thirty-three countries were included in the study, and most…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Research and Development, Females, Industry
