Focuses on the relationship between schooling and occupation in Uganda in the ten years prior to and the ten years after independence in 1962. (Author/RK)

In the debate about the effect of education and training on productivity the central problem has always been to find a satisfactory measure of productivity. Examines a test that is being used and which might be suitable for such purposes. (Author/RK)

Examines the hypothesis that family origins will be of substantially greater import in determining the formation of aspirations than will ability and performance in Brazil. Presents data to evaluate the adequacy of the first stages of the Sewell and associates social psychological model of status attainment for Brazil. (Author/RK)

Presents an attempt to identify the main dimensions of an educational system. These dimensions in turn allow the identification of those variables which are most useful in describing and differentiating between systems for purposes of research, planning, etc. (Author/RK)

Provision of free education at all levels is one of the most cherished political goals in modern society. Argues that in reality free education is likely to have the opposite effect to the one advocated by politicians, namely that it might further aggravate rather than alleviate social disparities. (Author/RK)

Examines the educational consequences of government efforts to restructure the ethnic stratification system in West Malaysia. (Author)

Examines another dimension of the vocational training issue, namely the relationship of training and performance in specific jobs. It explores the relative effects of alternative types of job training on the performance and promotion of tradesmen in a large, modern factory in south India. (Author)

Compares the effectiveness of formal schooling with learning from experience and considers, as one of its objectives, the extent that worker productivity is related to different levels of schooling. (Author/RK)

Investigates the effects of certain aspects of the school context upon the attitudes of teachers, using data from a survey of Norwegian upper-secondary teachers. Specifically, the influence of the teacher's principal, his colleagues, the age composition of the school staff, school size, and the achievement level and social origin of students are…

Explores the extent to which individuals with six grades of primary schooling improve or decline in their cognitive abilities after being out of school for some time, and suggested several reasons for the variance in retention. (Author/RK)

The aim of this article is to give some basic information on the IEA survey in science, reading comprehension and literature so that the scene is set for the reader to understand the terminology and procedures reported in the articles which follow. (Author)

In this article the results from six states in Australia involved in a cross-national analyses of an IEA Science Project are regarded as replications, on the basis of which general statements are made about learning conditions associated with the performance in science of Australian students. (Author/RK)

In this article, we examine what IEA data tell us about the situation of the gifted in Belgium. (Author)

This article has briefly described the democratization process of decision-making in Finnish secondary education. (Author)