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Can Equity in Education Foster Social Mobility? PISA in Focus. No. 89
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OECD Publishing, 2018
Equity is a fundamental value and guiding principle of education policy and practice, but it is not necessarily actualised in schools and education systems around the world. There are large variations across PISA-participating countries and economies in the magnitude of the difference that socio-economic status makes in students' learning,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Mobility, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Equality of Educational Opportunity: A Myth or Reality in U.S. Schooling
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Schmidt, William H.; Cogan, Leland S.; Houang, Richard T.; McKnight, Curtis – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2009
To explore whether equality of educational opportunities is a reality in US eighth grade mathematics classrooms, this paper utilizes data from US states and districts that participated in the 1999 TIMSS-R study. Analyses explore the relationship between classroom coverage of specific mathematics content and student achievement as measured by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Mathematics Education
Comparing the Similarities and Differences of PISA 2003 and TIMSS. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 32
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Wu, Margaret – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
This paper makes an in-depth comparison of the PISA (OECD) and TIMSS (IEA) mathematics assessments conducted in 2003. First, a comparison of survey methodologies is presented, followed by an examination of the mathematics frameworks in the two studies. The methodologies and the frameworks in the two studies form the basis for providing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Comparative Analysis