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Direct linkOECD Publishing, 2022
The world demands bold action to meet the global goal of zero net emissions by 2050. Young people will experience the consequences of climate change more directly during their lifetime than any previous generation in recent history. Education can play a pivotal role in preparing new generations for a greener future. What students learn may mean…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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Download full textKastberg, David; Murray, Gordon; Ferraro, David; Arieira, Carlos; Roey, Shep; Mamedova, Saida; Liao, Yuqi – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The Program for International Student Assessment Young Adult Follow-up Study (PISA YAFS) is a follow-up study with students who participated in PISA 2012 in the United States. The study is designed to measure how performance on PISA 2012 relates to subsequent measures of outcomes and skills of young adults on an online assessment, Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Young Adults
Jerrim, John; Wyness, Gill – London Review of Education, 2016
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important international study of 15-year-olds' academic achievement. Although PISA has traditionally been used to draw comparisons across countries, there is growing interest in the production of regional (i.e. city,state, or provincial level) results. In this paper we present the…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Gonzales, Patrick; Kelly, Dana – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This Data Point uses data from the 2012 administration of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) financial literacy assessment. PISA is an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy and, in 2012, general problem solving and financial literacy. PISA is coordinated by the…
Descriptors: Money Management, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Knowledge Level
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
Cartwright, Fernando – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This study examines the feasibility of reporting scores of a test based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 instrument that was administered to a sample of 25-year-old Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) respondents on the PISA scale. Each of these respondents also participated in PISA 2000. The study examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Information and communication technologies revolutionise not only the speed at which information can be transmitted, but also how information is conveyed and received. Technological innovations have a profound effect on the types of skills that are demanded in today's labour markets and the types of jobs that have the greatest potential for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Technological Advancement, Information Literacy
Parental Involvement in Selected PISA Countries and Economies. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 73
Borgonovi, Francesca; Montt, Guillermo – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Studies have highlighted the beneficial effects of parental involvement in children's educational lives. Few studies, however, analyse parental involvement in a cross-national perspective and few evaluate a wide array of forms of involvement. In 2009, 14 countries and economies implemented the parental questionnaire option in the PISA 2009 cycle.…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Rose, Norman; von Davier, Matthias; Xu, Xueli – Educational Testing Service, 2010
Large-scale educational surveys are low-stakes assessments of educational outcomes conducted using nationally representative samples. In these surveys, students do not receive individual scores, and the outcome of the assessment is inconsequential for respondents. The low-stakes nature of these surveys, as well as variations in average performance…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Educational Assessment, Data Analysis, Case Studies
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer "a man" to the first question, and "a woman" to the second, there's probably a reason. And the reason is simply that more men than…
Descriptors: Careers, Females, Labor Market, Engineering
Gluszynski, Tomasz; Bayard, Justin – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Over the last decade, Canada has experienced a substantial increase in the number of individuals participating in post-secondary education (PSE). This trend emphasizes the importance of understanding the pathways leading to PSE enrolment and the competencies that are associated with them. This chapter describes a range of possible education and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Education Work Relationship
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
Students who are highly engaged in a wide range of reading activities are more likely than other students to be effective learners and to perform well at school. Research also documents a strong link between reading practices, motivation and proficiency among adults. Proficiency in reading is crucial for individuals to make sense of the world they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Advantaged, Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading
Hudson, John; Kühner, Stefan – UNICEF, 2016
This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on 'bottom-end inequality' -- the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle -- and addresses the question 'how far behind are…
Descriptors: Children, Child Health, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Are students more engaged and do they perform better in science if their school encourages them to work on science projects, participate in science fairs, belong to a science-related club or go on science-related field trips--in addition to teaching them the mandatory science curriculum? To find out, PISA (Programme for International Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Field Trips, Science Projects, Extracurricular Activities
National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
"PISA 2012 Data Tables, Figures, and Exhibits" is a companion publication to the report entitled: "Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Mathematics, Science, and Reading Literacy in an International Context. First Look at PISA 2012. NCES 2014-024". PISA 2012 assessed students' mathematics, reading, and science literacy.…
Descriptors: International Programs, Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Achievement
