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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Do Migrant Girls Perform Better than Migrant Boys? Deviant Gender Differences between the Reading Scores of 15-Year-Old Children of Migrants Compared to Native Pupils
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Dronkers, Jaap; Kornder, Nils – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
In this paper, we analyse the gender differences between the educational performance of 15-year-old children of migrants from specific regions of origin countries living in different destination countries with the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 wave. We study whether this gender difference of migrant pupils deviates…
Descriptors: Migrants, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
The High Performance of Dutch and Flemish 15-Year-Old Native Pupils: Explaining Country Differences in Math Scores between Highly Stratified Educational Systems
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Prokic-Breuer, Tijana; Dronkers, Jaap – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
This paper aims to explain the high scores of 15-year-old native pupils in The Netherlands and Flanders by comparing them with the scores of pupils in countries with the same highly stratified educational system: Wallonia, the German "Lander," the Swiss German cantons, and Austria. We use the data from the Programme for International Pupil…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Exit Examinations, Students, Foreign Countries
School Sector Variation on Non-Cognitive Dimensions: Are Non-Public but Publicly Supported Schools More Effective?
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Avram, Silvia; Dronkers, Jaap – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
Denominational schooling makes up an important part of European educational systems. Given its specificity, denominational schooling can be expected to place a greater weight on values teaching and moral education. It also may be more successful in creating a warm and caring atmosphere, thus helping students to better emotionally connect to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Parochial Schools, Public Schools
A Cross-National Analysis of the Relations of School Choice and Effectiveness Differences between Private-Dependent and Public Schools
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Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, Silvia – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded private sector and the public sector in a sample of 26 countries. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and school effectiveness processes and thus to account for selectivity issues involved in the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Private Sector, School Choice, Reading Achievement
Do School Segregation and School Resources Explain Region-of-Origin Differences in the Mathematics Achievement of Immigrant Students?
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Dronkers, Jaap; Levels, Mark – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
Levels and Dronkers (2006) showed that educational achievement differs between immigrant students from different regions of origin (Latin America, Northern Africa, and Western Asia). This follow-up paper establishes whether these differences in educational achievement between immigrant students from different regions of origin can be explained by…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
School Achievement Of Pupils From The Lower Strata In Public, Private Government-Dependent And Private Government-Independent Schools: A Cross-National Test Of The Coleman-Hoffer Thesis
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Corten, Rense; Dronkers, Jaap – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
We consider the question whether pupils from the lower social strata perform better in private government-dependent schools than in public or private-independent schools, using the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 data on European high schools. In the 1980s, Coleman and Hoffer (1987) found in the USA that the performance…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Public Schools, Private Schools, Academic Achievement