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Beaton, Albert E.; Postlethwaite, T. Neville; Ross, Kenneth N.; Spearritt, Donald; Wolf, Richard M. – 1999
This booklet examines high-profile issues and major questions involved in international educational achievement studies. Some of these questions, which education activists and the public most often ask, are as follows: What benefits do international studies of achievement have for development of curricula in countries participating in this study?…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Halls, W. D., Ed. – 1990
The global status of comparative education from the 1960s to the present is presented in three parts. Part 1 comprises a general review of the background to seven regional studies. The review provides a picture of the overall historical development; the modifications in the concept of comparative education that have occurred; the general…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Development
