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Aguayo-Téllez, Ernesto; Martínez-Rodríguez, Flor E. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Using an unanticipated policy reform in Mexico that shifted 4 months the cutoff date for elementary school eligibility in 2006 and information on academic performance of 15-year-old students from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 survey, who entered first grade in 2006, this paper estimates the effects of starting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
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Radhika Kapoor; Erin Fahle; Klint Kanopka; David Klinowski; Ana Trindade Ribeiro; Benjamin W. Domingue – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Group differences in test scores are a key metric in education policy. Response time offers novel opportunities for understanding these differences, especially in low-stakes settings. Here, we describe how observed group differences in test accuracy can be attributed to group differences in latent response speed or group differences in latent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Zhu, Gang – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper discusses the emergence of the new global educational governance characterized by 1) global educational reform movement, 2) the active participation of the international organizations in global educational policy making, and 3) the emerging performative culture. Against this background, this article contextualizes the East Asian…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Asian Culture, Confucianism, International Cooperation
Crotty, Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This investigation focuses upon the nation of Finland. Described by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs ("This is Finland", n.d.) as a parliamentary democracy, Finland is a free-market economy with a young but progressive history. While the nation's scores on the 2015 triennial PISA continue to indicate above average performance on all three…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Equal Education, Immigrants, Gender Differences
OECD Publishing, 2020
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: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Money Management, Socioeconomic Influences
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Rujun Xu; James Soland – International Journal of Testing, 2024
International surveys are increasingly being used to understand nonacademic outcomes like math and science motivation, and to inform education policy changes within countries. Such instruments assume that the measure works consistently across countries, ethnicities, and languages--that is, they assume measurement invariance. While studies have…
Descriptors: Surveys, Statistical Bias, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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López Rupérez, Francisco; García García, Isabel; Expósito-Casas, Eva – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
There is important empirical evidence that shows that quality of leadership at a school level is one of the factors with the greatest impact on students' performance. The purpose of this article is to provide territorialized diagnosis of quality of school leadership in Spain and its regions based on PISA 2015 Spanish sample. Several quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership
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Hermann, Zoltán; Kopasz, Marianna – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Girls tend to outperform boys in reading tests, while they usually lag behind boys in mathematics. However, the size of the gender gap varies to a great extent between countries. While the existing literature explains these differences as being mainly due to cultural factors, this paper explores whether this cross-country variation is related to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Scores
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Lewis, Steven – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article examines emerging techniques of educational governance--based on time, difference and potential--enabled by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's PISA-based Test for Schools ('PISA for Schools'). I show how PISA for Schools facilitates the production of difference through comparative test data, allowing educators…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Colin Harrison; Greg Brooks; P. David Pearson; Sari Sulkunen; Renata Valtin – European Union, 2025
This joint NESET-EENEE analytical report is based on a detailed literature review of the most recent European and international research on effective approaches to the teaching of literacy, highlighting practices that have been properly evaluated and are supported by evidence of impact. Interest in this subject comes in the light of PISA 2022…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy Education, International Assessment
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Cannistrà, Marta; Agasisti, Tommaso; Amagir, Aisa; Poder, Kaire; Holz, Oliver; Vartiak, Lukas; De Witte, Kristof – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Given the expected advantages for individuals and societies, financial literacy is high on the policy agenda in many countries. This paper reports the results from a unique survey conducted on a sample of 13-16-year-old students in five European countries, aimed at measuring and comparing their level of financial literacy skills. The results…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Money Management, Cross Cultural Studies, Secondary School Students
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Aydarova, Elena – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
Critical policy analysis examining how powerful actors use educational policies to reproduce unequal social structures presents many challenges. These challenges are amplified by the politics of spectacle, where duplicity comes to dominate how educational policies are conceptualized, presented to the public, and subsequently enacted. The pursuit…
Descriptors: Humor, Ethics, Policy Analysis, Justice
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Eriyanti, Ribut Wahyu; Kusumastuti, Frida; Salahudin; Yumitro, Gonda; Roziqin, Ali; Dintarini, Mayang; Arrozy, Ahmad; Wicaksono, Agung Prasetyo; Muhibah, Siti – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This paper explores 1) why humanistic literacy is important in welcoming the industrial revolution 4.0, especially in the academic community and 2) how the implementation of MBKM (Collegiate Independent Learning) programs can be the main support in responding to industry 4.0. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate "how" the academic…
Descriptors: Humanism, Literacy, Likert Scales, Achievement Tests
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Auld, Euan; Morris, Paul – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has unveiled plans to move into the field of early childhood education through the introduction of the International Early Learning Study (IELS), a new comparative test of five-year olds that is being piloted in three nations. This article explores the dynamics of this new project…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, International Assessment, International Organizations, Governance
OECD Publishing, 2018
Migration flows are profoundly changing the composition of classrooms. Results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reveal that in 2015, almost one in four 15-year-old students in OECD countries reported that they were either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent. Between 2003 and 2015, the share of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Resilience (Psychology), Student Characteristics, Adjustment (to Environment)
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