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Štastný, Vít; Greger, David; Soukup, Petr – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2021
In many countries, out-of-school tutoring in academic subjects has become a widespread phenomenon that affects high proportions of students. Scholarly literature has considered various determinants of participation in such tutoring, but school quality has as yet been rather neglected. The aim of the study is to explore the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Science Instruction, School Effectiveness, Correlation
Atmacasoy, Abdullah – Online Submission, 2017
Against the backdrop of PISA 2015 results, the aim of this study is to review basic structures of German education system by exploring curriculum development process, key features of each educational level and teacher education in order to grasp how Germany has amended her poor performance after PISA 2000 and persistently improved the quality of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Development, Teacher Education
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Holzberger, Doris; Philipp, Anja; Kunter, Mareike – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This study extends previous research on teachers' self-efficacy by exploring reciprocal effects of teachers' self-efficacy and instructional quality in a longitudinal panel study. The study design combined a self-report measure of teacher self-efficacy with teacher and student ratings of instructional quality (assessing cognitive activation,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Quality
Luschei, Thomas – Claremont Graduate University (NJ1), 2010
To the extent that Americans look abroad for lessons about education, they primarily concern themselves with wealthy nations that perform well on international tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In this paper, the author argues that Americans…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Low Income Groups, Developing Nations, International Education
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Ho, Esther Sui-Chu – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
This paper seeks to examine the quality and equality of basic education of Hong Kong based on the first three cycles of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Results from these three assessments suggested that the Hong Kong students have an outstanding performance in mathematics, science and reading. In particular, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Educational Quality