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OECD Publishing, 2024
This PISA volume examines 15-year-old students' understanding of money matters in 20 countries and economies, and provides insights into differences in performance linked to factors, such as socio-economic background and family interactions. The results highlight the importance that all students receive financial education, in particular those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Douglas Bourn, Editor – UCL Press, 2023
Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today's global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
OECD Publishing, 2024
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students around the world know and can do. This volume -- Volume III, Creative Minds, Creative Schools -- is one of five volumes presenting the results of the eighth round of the PISA assessment. For the first time, in 2022, PISA assessed students' capacity to engage in…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Institutional Characteristics, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing, 2024
This volume of PISA examines the readiness of students to engage with learning strategies, to be motivated to learn and to be confident in their abilities and in their capacity to improve their skills and knowledge. Countries like Korea have reduced mathematics anxiety, Portugal excels in critical thinking, and more low-performing students in…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Learning Strategies, Disadvantaged, Low Achievement
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Kiray, Seyit Ahmet, Ed.; Tomevska-Ilievska, Elizabeta, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Current Studies in Educational Disciplines 2021" is published annually from the selected papers invited by the editors. This edition includes 6 sections and 14 papers from the field of Environmental Education, Science Education, Educational Technology, Mathematics Education, Assessment in Education and STEM Education. All submissions…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Education, Educational Technology, Mathematics Education
OECD Publishing, 2017
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in science, reading and mathematics, but what they can do with what they know. Results from PISA show educators and policy makers the quality and equity of learning outcomes achieved elsewhere, and allow them to learn from the policies and practices…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
Hirsch, Christian R., Ed.; McDuffie, Amy Roth, Ed. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2016
Mathematical modeling plays an increasingly important role both in real-life applications--in engineering, business, the social sciences, climate study, advanced design, and more--and within mathematics education itself. This 2016 volume of "Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education" ("APME") focuses on this key topic from a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, STEM Education
OECD Publishing, 2017
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in science, reading and mathematics, but what they can do with what they know. Results from PISA show educators and policy makers the quality and equity of learning outcomes achieved elsewhere, and allow them to learn from the policies and practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2011
At a time when the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and partner countries are trying to figure out how to reduce burgeoning debt and make the most of shrinking public budgets, spending on education is an obvious target for scrutiny. Education officials, teachers, policy makers, parents and students struggle to determine…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Time Factors (Learning), Educational Finance, International Education
DeVillar, Robert A., Ed.; Jiang, Binbin, Ed.; Cummins, Jim, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national and global trajectories in key areas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Global Approach, Learning Processes
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
This report explores the factors and conditions that could help more students succeed at school despite challenging socio-economic backgrounds. It does this by studying resilient students and what sets them apart from their less successful peers. Understanding how educational systems can support disadvantaged students and help them "beat the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Success
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2003
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) represents a commitment by OECD member countries to monitor the outcomes of educational systems in terms of student achievement within a common international framework. This publication presents the guiding principles of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education