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Badescu, Mircea – European Training Foundation, 2022
This report provides the main findings and results from the 2022 collection of statistics on education, skills and employment in the ETF's partner countries. In addition, it provides the results of some ETF new strands of work: youth transition and skills mismatch. A statistical snapshot enabling the EU's candidate countries to reference…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Indicators, Cultural Differences, Dropouts
Open Society Foundations, 2015
This paper and the four commissioned works on which it is based are guided by the important question: How can we start valuing practices and outcomes of teaching and learning that are difficult to reduce to numbers? As the process of developing indicators for the Post-2015 education targets unfolds, some of the targets are at risk of being dropped…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Preschool Education
Lewin, Keith M. – Open Society Foundations, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments related to the development of indicators of educational progress in the context of the Post 2015 deliberations to generate a new international architecture for educational investment through to 2030. There have been a plethora of suggestions and several parallel consultation processes…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Preschool Education
Verger, Antoni; Bonal, Xavier; Zancajo, Adrián – Open Society Foundations, 2015
This report reviews the conceptual debates and existing data sources that relate to three ambiguous and controversial targets included in the post-2015 education framework: Relevant Learning Outcomes; Knowledge, Skills, Values, and Attitudes (for education for global citizenship and sustainable development); and Teachers and Safe, Inclusive, and…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Preschool Education
Berliner, David C. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Trying to understand PISA is analogous to the parable of the blind men and the elephant. There are many facets of the PISA program, and thus many ways to both applaud and critique this ambitious international program of assessment that has gained enormous importance in the crafting of contemporary educational policy. One of the facets discussed in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Janta, Barbara; van Belle, Janna; Stewart, Katherine – RAND Europe, 2016
There is a strong association between the quality of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) provision and the outcomes for children, with high quality ECEC being associated with better child outcomes later in life. This brief reviewed the broad range of indicators that have been linked to quality, with a focus on understanding how these…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care, Outcomes of Education
Blomeke, Sigrid; Suhl, Ute; Kaiser, Gabriele – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
The effectiveness of teacher education was examined by taking two indicators into account: future teachers' mean achievement on a paper-and-pencil test as an indicator of quality, and the variability of teacher achievement due to background characteristics as an indicator of equity. In detail, the effects of gender and language on mathematics…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Cultural Differences, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Street, Brian V. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
I analyse what exactly is being addressed when the notion of "literacy inequalities" is cited in the context of international policy with regard to education in general and literacy in particular. Whilst literacy statistics are used as indicators of social inequality and as a basis for policy in improving rights, educational attainment, etc., I…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Cultural Differences, Foreign Policy, Ethnography
Dockery, Alfred Michael – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2013
This study provides new evidence on the inter-relationships between Indigenous Australians' association with their traditional culture and their engagement with vocational education and training. It builds on previous work to develop a "richer" measure of the concept of cultural attachment. This report discusses the links between…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Vocational Education, Cultural Maintenance, Educational Attainment
Danhier, Julien; Martin, Émilie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2014
The Belgian educational field includes separate educational systems reflecting the division of the country into linguistic communities. Even if the French-speaking and the Dutch-speaking communities keep sharing important similarities in terms of funding rules and structures, they present a huge gap between their respective pupils' achievement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Baidak, Nathalie; Ubaghs, James – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2015
Since 2010, annually updated data on instruction time has been available on the Eurydice website. Given the great similarities between the two data collections, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Eurydice networks have decided to produce one single data collection tool and conjointly manage the data collection on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Factors (Learning), Compulsory Education, Instruction
Arku, Frank Sena; Filson, Glen C.; Shute, James – Social Indicators Research, 2008
The paper indicates using community development and sustainable livelihood theories as lenses that well-being indicators vary among societies, especially in developing countries due to cultural differences. The study which was carried in three rural communities in Ho Municipality in the Ghana was to show the extent to which men's and women's sense…
Descriptors: Community Development, Females, Well Being, Cultural Differences
Lovat, Terence; Clement, Neville; Dally, Kerry; Toomey, Ron – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2010
The article's main focus is on exploring ways in which modern forms of values education are being utilized to address major issues of social dissonance, with special focus on dissonance related to religious difference between students of Islamic and non-Islamic backgrounds. The article begins by appraising philosophical and neuroscientific…
Descriptors: Values Education, Religious Conflict, Religious Factors, Islam
Ford, Donna Y. – Gifted Child Today, 2010
Each year, the U.S. Department of Education publishes its comprehensive report "The Condition of Education." As the author perused this year's edition, she was reminded of an important reality, one that all education professionals must be mindful of: America and its schools are more racially and culturally different than ever before. The term…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Diversity, Educational Indicators, Cultural Pluralism
Arrueta, Jose Antonio; Avery, Helen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article concerns the impact of educational reforms on young people in Bolivian society as they transition into adulthood, against the backdrop of globalisation and far-reaching structural changes. Ethnicity and cultural capital are linked in complex ways with social stratification in Bolivia. In a pluricultural society, the language of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Cultural Capital
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