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Promoting Learning and Development in K-12 Out-of-School Time Settings. Proceedings of a Workshop--In Brief
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Contributor; Jen Saunders, Rapporteur – National Academies Press, 2024
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an ad-hoc committee to examine learning and development in out-of-school time settings across the K-12 age span. To inform its deliberations, the committee held three public sessions, on October 19, 2023, February 8, 2024, and April 18, 2024. This publication summarizes the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Large-Scale Assessments and Educational Policies in Italy
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Damiani, Valeria – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Despite Italy's extensive participation in most large-scale assessments, their actual influence on Italian educational policies is less easy to identify. The present contribution aims at highlighting and explaining reasons for the weak and often inconsistent relationship between international surveys and policy-making processes in Italy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
TIMSS and PISA Impact--The Case of Jordan
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Ababneh, Emad; Al-Tweissi, Ahmad; Abulibdeh, Khattab – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Jordan has participated in international large-scale assessments (LSAs) since 1991 and in most of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies (TIMSS) as well as the Programme for International Student Assessments (PISA). After a short description of education system and policy-making context in the country, this article provides an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
International Large-Scale Assessment Studies and Educational Policy-Making in Chile: Contexts and Dimensions of Influence
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Cox, Cristián; Meckes, Lorena – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, Chile has participated in all major international large-scale assessment studies (ILSAs) of the IEA and OECD, as well as the regional ones conducted by UNESCO in Latin America, after it had been involved in the very first international Science Study in 1970-1971. This article examines the various ways in which these studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students