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Immigrant and Refugee Students across "Receiving" Nations: To What Extent Can Educators Rely on PISA for Answers?
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Rubinstein-Avila, Eliane – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2016
Massive population shift is a current global reality--especially given some of the latest development on European shores; some are calling it a humanitarian crisis. Although the United States (US) receives a large number of immigrants (documented and not) and about 70,000 refugees each year, it is certainly not the only nation to do so.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Migrant Children, International Assessment
Conclusions from PISA and TIMSS Testing
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Tienken, Christopher H. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2013
Secretary of Education Duncan (2010) lamented the state of U.S. education in 2010 after the release of the results from the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). He wrote: "Unfortunately, the 2009 PISA results show that American students are poorly prepared to compete in today's knowledge economy. President Obama has…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
What Aspects of Schooling Are Important? School Effects on Tertiary Entrance Performance
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Marks, Gary N. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to identify school effects on student performance for tertiary entrance in Australia, taking into account student-level predictors using longitudinal data from the 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study. It finds that aspects of schooling, such as positive attitudes to school and disciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Performance Factors
The Inequalities in School Choice in Spain in Accordance to PISA Data
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Escardibul, Josep-Oriol; Villarroya, Anna – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
In Spain as in other European countries, policies on school choice have been implemented in tandem with the channelling of public resources into private education. Given the application of public money to private schooling, the primary objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which Spanish families enjoy equality in their ability to…
Descriptors: Private Education, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries
Student and School Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement: International Comparisons between Korea, Japan and the USA
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Shin, Jongho; Lee, Hyunjoo; Kim, Yongnam – School Psychology International, 2009
The purpose of the study was to comparatively investigate student- and school-level factors affecting mathematics achievement of Korean, Japanese and American students. For international comparisons, the PISA 2003 data were analysed by using the Hierarchical Linear Modeling method. The variables of competitive-learning preference, instrumental…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Performance Factors
Immigrant Children's Educational Achievement in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
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Levels, Mark; Dronkers, Jaap; Kraaykamp, Gerbert – American Sociological Review, 2008
This article explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries, and immigrant communities help explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we analyze the mathematical performance of 7,403 pupils from 35 different origin countries in 13…
Descriptors: Immigration, Immigrants, Mathematics Achievement, Migrant Children