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Do Country Stereotypes Exist in PISA? A Clustering Approach for Large, Sparse, and Weighted Data
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Saarela, Mirka; Kärkkäinen, Tommi – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Certain stereotypes can be associated with people from different countries. For example, the Italians are expected to be emotional, the Germans functional, and the Chinese hard-working. In this study, we cluster all 15-year-old students representing the 68 different nations and territories that participated in the latest Programme for…
Descriptors: Weighted Scores, Stereotypes, Standardized Tests, Student Characteristics
An International Comparison Investigating the Relationship between National Culture and Student Achievement
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Fang, Zheng; Grant, Leslie W.; Xu, Xianxuan; Stronge, James H.; Ward, Thomas J. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the connections between national culture and student achievement. Using Hofstede's six cultural dimensions and the two dimensions from the World Values survey, we conducted multiple regressions to determine the most significant predictors of student achievement as measured by the 2009 Program for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, National Norms, Cultural Influences, Cultural Context
Scientific Literacy: Resurrecting the Phoenix with Thinking Skills
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Deming, John C.; O'Donnell, Jacqueline R.; Malone, Christopher J. – Science Educator, 2012
Prior research suggests that students' understanding of scientific concepts is pre-determined by their reasoning ability. Other efforts suggest that American students' scientific literacy is in decline. One difficulty Bybee (2009) acknowledges is that there are two divergent philosophical models of scientific literacy. The first describes the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts, National Norms, Scientific Literacy
The Relationship between Studying Music and Mathematics Performance on the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment
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Prokop, Kristie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
On assessments such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (Stigler & Hiebert, 1999) and Program for International Assessment (PISA) ("PISA 2006 Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World", 2007) students in the United States have not been performing as well in mathematics as students in other countries. In…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, National Norms, Comparative Analysis, Educational Improvement
National IQs Predict Educational Attainment in Math, Reading and Science across 56 Nations
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Lynn, Richard; Mikk, Jaan – Intelligence, 2009
The results of the 2006 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) study of reading comprehension, mathematical ability, and science understanding administered to 15 year olds in 56 countries [OECD (2007). PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World. Paris: OECD.] are examined to assess the predictive validity of the national IQs…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, National Norms, Differences, Achievement Tests
Relevance of Education and Intelligence at the National Level for the Economic Welfare of People
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Rindermann, Heiner – Intelligence, 2008
Cognitive abilities are important for the economic and non-economic success of individuals and societies. For international analyses, the collection of IQ-measures from Lynn and Vanhanen was supplemented and meliorated by data from international student assessment studies (IEA-Reading, TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS). The cognitive level of a nation is highly…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Economic Factors, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability