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Direct linkHalldorsson, Almar M.; Olafsson, Ragnar F. – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
Among 41 participating countries in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, the gender difference in favour of females was greatest in Iceland in the three subjects tested: mathematics, science and reading. The aims of this article are to put these findings in national and international context, and report on a number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, National Standards, Validity
Sikora, Joanna; Saha, Lawrence J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
In this article, we investigate whether adolescent girls are more determined to enter professional careers compared to boys across countries. To this end, we analyse the data from the 2006 survey of OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). First, we establish whether girls are more ambitious than boys net of their academic…
Descriptors: Females, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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
