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You, Hye Sun; Park, Sunyoung; Delgado, Cesar – Science Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of US schools associated with two measures of scientific literacy (content knowledge and "procedural and epistemic" knowledge) using the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data. Because outcomes are nested within students, and students within schools, a…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Grades (Scholastic)
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Demir, Ergül – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
In this study, it was aimed to model the school characteristics in multivariate structure, and according to this model, aimed to test the invariance of this model across five randomly selected countries and economies from PISA 2012 sample. It is thought that significant differences across group in the context of school characteristics have the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Multivariate Analysis
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Karakolidis, Anastasios; Pitsia, Vasiliki; Emvalotis, Anastassios – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2016
The main aim of the present study was to carry out an in-depth examination of mathematics underperformance in Greece. By applying a binary multilevel model to the PISA 2012 data, this study investigated the factors which were linked to low achievement in mathematics. The multilevel analysis revealed that students' gender, immigration status,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Multivariate Analysis
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Bielefeldt, Talbot – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
In November 2004, economists Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann published a statistical analysis of the relationship between technology and student achievement using year 2000 data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The 2000 PISA was the first in a series of triennial assessments of 15-year-olds conducted by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multivariate Analysis, Academic Achievement, Educational Technology
Creswell, John; Underwood, Catherine – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2004
The primary focus of this report is to examine the effect that geographical location may have on the performance of students from schools from all parts of Australia who participated in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2000). Approximately 5,477 students from 231…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Location, Rural Urban Differences, Academic Achievement