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Subject-Specific Strength and Weaknesses of Fourth-Grade Students in Europe: A Comparative Latent Profile Analysis of Multidimensional Proficiency Patterns Based on PIRLS/TIMSS Combined 2011
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Wendt, Heike; Kasper, Daniel – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background: In 2011 the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) were conducted at fourth grade in a number of participating countries with a shared representative sample. In this article we investigate whether there are multidimensional proficiency patterns…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Educational Tracking, Inequality and Performance: New Evidence from a Differences-in-Differences Technique
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Lavrijsen, Jeroen; Nicaise, Ides – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
One of the important differences between educational systems from different countries is the age at which students are placed into separate tracks. We examined the effects of the age at which tracking occurred on student achievement in a comparative perspective, making use of recent waves of three internationally standardized student assessments…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Comparative Education