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Borgonovi, Francesca; Han, Seong Won; Greiff, Samuel – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Effective collaborative problem solving comprises cognitive dimensions, in which men tend to outperform women, and social dimensions in which women tend to outperform men. We extend research on between-country differences in gender gaps by considering collaborative problem solving and its association with two indicators of societal-level gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Cultural Differences
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Ömür, Çoban – World Journal of Education, 2020
This research was conducted in Turkey and it examined the relationships between fifteen-year-old students' PISA 2018 literacy scores and student-level and school-level variables. This study aimed to examine the relationships between students' hindering, teachers' hindering, socioeconomic status, parental support and student achievement. The…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Literacy
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Christa L. Taylor – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Access to data from the 2022 PISA creative thinking assessment (PISA CT) provides a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of gender differences in creativity. However, in addition to the general theoretical and methodological considerations discussed elsewhere in this special issue, there are several matters specific to gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Creative Thinking, Scores, Creativity
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Avcu, Akif – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2021
In contrast to traditional statistical approaches, which assume the existence of a latent common cause leading to the emergence and covariance of indicators, network modeling assumes that latent features emerge because of interactions between indicators. Clearly, such a way of treating the results of the Program for International Student…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
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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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Kartianom Kartianom; Heri Retnawati; Kana Hidayati – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
Conducting a fair test is important for educational research. Unfair assessments can lead to gender disparities in academic achievement, ultimately resulting in disparities in opportunities, wages, and career choice. Differential Item Function [DIF] analysis is presented to provide evidence of whether the test is truly fair, where it does not harm…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Bias, Item Response Theory, Test Theory
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Furno, Marilena – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2022
We relate students' math scores in the OECD-PISA test to school characteristics. The average math score for Italian students has been increasing in 2009. The determinants of this growth are analyzed by the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, that is particularly useful in comparing groups. The progress in educational attainments shows a different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Hall, Marissa; Rathburn, Amy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
Demand for jobs in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and in the health care field is projected to grow faster than the average for all occupations in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019). However, the current STEM and health care workforces are characterized by demographic disparities and a lack of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a study of 15-year-old students' performance in reading, mathematics, and science literacy conducted every 3 years. The PISA 2018 results provide a global view of U.S. students' performance compared to their peers in nearly 80 countries and education systems. By design, PISA aims to…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education, Achievement Tests
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Jerrim, John; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar David – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Grade retention has been the focus of the education debate in Spain for decades. On average, more than 30% of students have repeated at least one grade before they finish (or dropout from) their compulsory studies. The present research provides new evidence on this issue by investigating the influence of Spain's school entry age upon students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, School Entrance Age, Age Differences
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David Molina-Muñoz; José Miguel Contreras-García; Ana María Lara-Porras; María del Mar Rueda-García – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2023
Results of the PISA 2018 tests show that the average score in mathematics of the Spanish students is below the European Union and the OECD averages. These differences may be caused by factors related to the student or by those related to the school the student belongs to. The aim of this work is to identify the variables causing the differences in…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Özkan, Umut Birkan – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2021
This study uses PISA 2018 data to analyze, from a multinational perspective, whether interest in environmental issues is a determining factor of science literacy. A relational survey model is used as a quantitative research design to analyze secondary data obtained from the PISA 2018 evaluation data of 98,306 students at the age of 15 in 15…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Student Interests, Environment, Achievement Tests
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Koyuncu, Ilhan; Bulus, Metin; Firat, Tahsin – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the moderator role of gender and socioeconomic status (SES) factors in the relationship between students' metacognitive skills and reading performance. The sample of the study was 6890 students in the age group of 15 years-old who participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Correlation, Metacognition
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Jibril Ali; Hassan Alsakhe; Ibrahim Ibrahim; Nabil Khattab; Muznah Madeeha; Mustafa Shouia – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The study draws on the theory of 'migrant optimism' and anticipated discrimination to examine whether a gap in educational expectations and achievement exists between immigrant and native students in Qatar and explores whether the impact of educational expectations on educational achievement is contingent upon the migratory status of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Kunina-Habenicht, Olga; Goldhammer, Frank – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
As a relevant cognitive-motivational aspect of ICT literacy, a new construct "ICT Engagement" is theoretically based on self-determination theory and involves the factors ICT interest, Perceived ICT competence, Perceived autonomy related to ICT use, and ICT as a topic in social interaction. In this manuscript, we present different…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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