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William Nicholas Bork Rodriguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A secondary analysis of PISA 2018 data was conducted to investigate the reading achievement of students with an immigrant background. While prior research suggests the importance of demographic characteristics in secondary PISA analyses, a major critique is that PISA centers destination characteristics over origin ones, limiting the study of the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Fernando Senar; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Andrés Sandoval-Hernández; Cecilio Lapresta-Rey – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This study aims to explore the effect of cultural capital on the perception of parental involvement policies offered by schools in various countries. Using PISA (2018) data, a multilevel model is implemented for each participant country to adopt a comparative perspective. While the results suggest a complex effect, moderated by idiosyncratic…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Parent Participation, School Policy, Cultural Differences
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Fatma Ünal; Hakan Kogar – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of missing data imputation methods, namely regression imputation (RI), multiple imputation (MI) and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) on differential item functioning (DIF). In this regard, the datasets used in the research were created by deleting some of the data via the missing completely at random…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Misbah Samar; Karena Menzie-Ballantyne; Miriam Ham – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2024
In 2015, Pakistan committed to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4's provision of quality education for all. Target 4.7 of this Goal acknowledges that delivering quality education means ensuring that students develop a set of attributes characterised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in terms of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development
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Ingeborg Katrin Lid Berget – Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
Mathematical modelling is emphasised in curricula worldwide. Since 2006, mathematical modelling has been considered a fundamental process in the mathematics subject in Norwegian upper secondary schools. This study aimed to identify tensions in the approaches to mathematical modelling expressed in teacher interviews (N = 4) and framework discourses…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Kateryn Rannu; Aleksandra Ljalikova; Katrin Poom-Valickis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite Estonia being ranked among the highest performing nations in the world-wide testing of students, these encouraging results are somewhat overshadowed by the challenge to overcome the divided school system with different languages of learning that impacts crucially on students' social, academic and professional paths. The study examines…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Jean-Baptiste M. B. Sanfo; Keiichi Ogawa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
The language used as a medium of instruction (MOI) has implications for learning outcomes. In most African classrooms, an international language is solely or dominantly used as an MOI. There is a debate about how this practice is associated with students' learning outcomes. This study uses Zambian PISA for Development 2018 data and school fixed…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage