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Atasoy, Ramazan; Çoban, Ömür; Yatagan, Murat – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2022
We aimed to examine the effect of ICT use, parental support and student hindering on science achievement in Turkey, USA and South Korea with using PISA 2018 data. PISA is one of the biggest international assessment study aiming comparison of students' academic capabilities in science, mathematics and reading among participant countries. For this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Parent Influence
Callan, Gregory L.; Marchant, Gregory J.; Finch, W. Holmes; Flegge, Lindsay – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
A multilevel mediated regression model was fit to Programme for International Student Assessment achievement, strategy use, gender, and family- and school-level socioeconomic status (SES). Two metacognitive strategies (i.e., understanding and summarizing) and one learning strategy (i.e., control strategies) were found to relate significantly and…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Institutional Characteristics, Gender Differences, Learning Strategies
de Lange, Marloes; Dronkers, Jaap; Wolbers, Maarten H. J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
Living in a single-parent family is negatively related with children's educational performance compared to living with 2 biological parents. In this article, we aim to find out to what extent the context of the school's share of single-parent families affects this negative relationship. We use pooled data from the Organisation for Economic…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Academic Achievement, Family Structure, Fatherless Family
Kim, Doo Hwan; Law, Helen – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
In many industrialised societies, women remain underrepresented in the sciences, which can be predicted by the gender gap in math achievement at school. Using PISA 2006 data, we explore the role of family background and single-sex schooling in girls' disadvantage in maths in South Korea and Hong Kong. This disadvantage is found to be associated…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, Family Characteristics, Social Structure
OECD Publishing, 2015
Over the past century, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries have made significant progress in narrowing or closing long-standing gender gaps in many areas of education and employment, including educational attainment, pay and labour market participation. But new gender gaps in education are opening. Young men…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Gender Differences
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This report focuses on the development of reading proficiency during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. The span of time between the ages of 15 and 24 is a critical period of development for young people. Once compulsory education is completed, individual decisions about post-secondary education, employment and other life choices…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Compulsory Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Pasztor, Adel – Intercultural Education, 2008
This paper examines the integration of Turkish labour migrant children in four countries across Europe in terms of their educational performance. By looking at the PISA 2003 (Programme for International Student Assessment) data pertaining to mathematics achievement of 15-year-olds, it explores the effects of ethnicity, gender and family…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Family Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
Marks, Gary N. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
It is often assumed that schools themselves play an important role in students not completing school. However, the literature is inconsistent on what school characteristics influence school leaving, and identified school effects may be spurious due to the absence, or poor measurement, of appropriate individual-level influences. The importance of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background, Socioeconomic Influences
Thorpe, Graham – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2006
The UK reading literacy data from the OECD PISA 2000 study are analysed using multilevel methods. The main analyses focus on the composite reading literacy scale resulting from the study and the explanatory variables used are 16 of the scales derived from answers given to the pupil questionnaire administered as part of the survey, together with…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Secondary School Students, Differences
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) is a triennial survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds. It is the product of collaboration between participating countries and economies through the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), and draws on leading international expertise to develop valid…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Achievement Tests
Zelmanova, Olga; Korsnakova, Paulina; Tramonte, Lucia; Willms, J. Douglas – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
Like many other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, children in Slovakia are allocated to different types of schools at an early age based upon their perceived aptitude. Part of the selection process includes an attempt to identify those children who are particularly academic-oriented. Primary and secondary education in Slovakia is divided…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students, Secondary Schools