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Direct linkBray, Mark; Kobakhidze, Magda Nutsa; Suter, Larry E. – Comparative Education Review, 2020
Recent years have brought a major shift in the field of international comparative education with the rise of quantitative assessments of student achievement. Within these studies, outside-school-time (OST) as a supplement and complement to schooling has been included. However, OST is difficult to define and measure; and challenges multiply when…
Descriptors: International Education, Comparative Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Download full textDaley, Nola; Casillas, Alex; Walton, Kate E.; Burrus, Jeremy – ACT, Inc., 2023
Social and emotional (SE) skills are "individual capacities that (a) are manifested in consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, (b) can be developed through formal and informal learning experiences, and (c) influence important socioeconomic outcomes throughout the individual's life" (Organisation for Economic…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Social Emotional Learning, Intervention
OECD Publishing, 2018
Over the past century, technological development and better access to services has resulted in significant improvements to quality of life. Despite this, however, levels of stress, anxiety and depression are rising. Education can play a role in supporting well-being during and beyond schooling. Schools are increasingly concerned not only with…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Well Being, Quality of Life, Self Esteem
Fitzpatrick, Manuela; Figueroa, Diana Toledo; Golden, Gillian; Crosby, Shiana – OECD Publishing, 2018
This policy profile on education in Kazakhstan is part of the Education Policy Outlook series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Building on the OECD's substantial comparative and sectorial policy knowledge base, the series offers a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Pedersen, James M. – Childhood Education, 2019
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has reported that boys all over the world underperform their female peers at school. This trend creates problems for this generation of males and could also pose unforeseen consequences for the next generation. A review of journals, magazines, and other media outlets uncovered a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Underachievement
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2020
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is one of the world's leading educational research centres. Since it was established in 1930, ACER has built a strong reputation as a provider of reliable support and expertise to education policymakers and professional practitioners. Each year, ACER is involved in a large number of research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Goodwin, Bryan – McREL International, 2022
Policymakers and educators have attempted to "reform" or fix schools in different ways. However studies suggest these reforms have produced, at best, mixed results (Fullan, 2011; Taylor & Tyler, 2012; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2015) and did little to close racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps…
Descriptors: Students, Student Needs, Achievement Gap, Achievement Gains
Andere, Eduardo – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Teachers are seen as the main reason behind the high, equal, and consistent student performance in Finland as measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and there is a lot of truth in this. Candidates for teacher training programs are selected through a rigorous process, for example. However, using primarily the case of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Academic Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education
Gouëdard, Pierre – OECD Publishing, 2021
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducts the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a global yardstick for evaluating the quality, equity and efficiency of school systems. PISA regularly measures what 15-year-old students know and can do, and relates it to a wide range of aspects. For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Avvisati, Francesco; Cherian, Michelle; Encinas-Martin, Marta; Fraser, Pablo; Perez, Eva – OECD Publishing, 2018
This report uses the most recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data, primarily from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 and Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013 cycles, and seeks to evaluate the Ibero-American, countries where Spanish or Portuguese are the predominant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
Miao, Xin; Nadaf, Ali; Zhou, Zhuotong – International Review of Education, 2023
This article investigates the importance of global competence and its incorporation in interventions from Grade 5 to Grade 12 public education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to prepare learners for local and global challenges, such as sustainable development, technological innovation, climate change, etc. Using data from the Programme for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Evidence, Global Approach
Johnston, Olivia; Wildy, Helen – Australian Journal of Education, 2016
This article reviews the international literature about streaming and the effects of this practice on the learning outcomes for secondary school students in Australia. Streaming in secondary schools across Australia has again increased in popularity after more than a century of literature that often discourages the practice. This article discusses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Ability Grouping
Lewis, Steven – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This paper explores Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Schools, a local variant of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD's) influential PISA that not only assesses an individual school's performance in reading, mathematics and science against international schooling systems, but also promotes 17…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Educational History, Achievement Tests
Shmis, Tigran; Ustinova, Maria; Chugunov, Dmitry – World Bank, 2020
This book presents the main findings of a study on school learning environments and student outcomes, which the World Bank conducted in 2019 in three regions of the Russian Federation. Using data collected through the [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] OECD School User Survey and the pilot "Trends in Mathematics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Space Utilization
