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No. 103 | 17 Jun 2014 |
Evaluating Measurement Invariance of TALIS 2013 Complex Scales
This paper evaluates measurement invariance of complex scales from a social survey using both a continuous approach and a categorical approach to help inform future decisions in choosing the most appropriate methods to perform the validation of... |
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No. 102 | 27 May 2014 |
Comparison of PIAAC and PISA Frameworks for Numeracy and Mathematical Literacy
This paper describes key aspects of the frameworks for the assessment of adult numeracy and mathematical literacy in PIAAC and PISA, which are OECD two flagship programs for international comparative assessment of competencies. The paper examines... |
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No. 101 | 17 Dec 2013 |
Returns to Skills Around the World
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human... |
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No. 100 | 16 Jan 2014 |
Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education
Higher education plays an important role in providing people with skills for innovation, but a number of important questions remain as to what kind of higher education teaching can be conducive to the strengthening of skills for innovation. This... |
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No. 99 | 18 Dec 2013 |
Learning Standards, Teaching Standards and Standards for School Principals
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in... |
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No. 98 | 13 Dec 2013 |
Coping with Very Weak Primary Schools: Towards Smart Interventions in Dutch Education Policy
This case study looks at the effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at reducing the number of underperforming primary schools in a system with a long tradition of school autonomy. It reviews relevant Dutch policy developments in education since... |
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No. 97 | 13 Dec 2013 |
Balancing Trust and Accountability? The Assessment for Learning Programme in Norway
This report explores the development of implementation strategies used to enhance the programme “Assessment for Learning – 2010-2014” in Norwegian schools. Norway’s educational governance is highly decentralised, with 428 municipalities and 19... |
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No. 96 | 12 Dec 2013 |
The Simple, the Complicated, and the Complex: Educational Reform Through the Lens of Complexity Theory
This paper explores the nature of complexity theory and its applications for educational reform. It briefly explains the history of complexity theory and identifies the key concepts of complex adaptive systems, and then moves on to define the... |
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No. 95 | 06 Jan 2014 |
Schooling Matters
Many international comparisons of education over the past 50 years have included some measure of students’ opportunity to learn (OTL) in their schooling. Results have typically confirmed the common sense notion that a student’s exposure in school to... |
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No. 94 | 04 Nov 2013 |
Learning Study
Learning Study is a collaborative, action-research approach to improve the effectiveness of student learning by enhancing the professional competence of teachers. This is achieved through the collaborative construction of the pedagogical content... |
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No. 93 | 20 Aug 2013 |
PISA in Low and Middle Income Countries
This paper explores the participation of low- and middle-income countries in OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). It provides a detailed description of partner countries’ participation across PISA rounds and the challenges... |
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No. 92 | 14 May 2013 |
Understanding School Building Policy and Practice in Belgium's Flemish Community
This paper describes a conceptual framework that can be used to interpret the general policy issues driving the design, construction, maintenance and evaluation of school buildings in Belgium’s Flemish Community. Within the context of this framework,... |
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No. 91 | 17 Apr 2013 |
Sparking Innovation in STEM Education with Technology and Collaboration
This report highlights innovative technology-supported pedagogic models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, explores what to expect from collaboration in a designed network, and, thereafter, sketches lessons for... |
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No. 90 | 29 Mar 2013 |
Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools
The Italian Ministry of Education launched in 2007 a National Plan for Digital Schools (Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale) to mainstream Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Italian classrooms and use technology as a catalyser of innovation in... |
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No. 89 | 27 Mar 2013 |
Learning from International Experiences with Interactive Whiteboards
This paper describes teacher strategies and experiences with interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and draws on the published research in this area to understand how a systemic approach to technology-based innovations in schools can contribute to quality... |
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No. 88 | 19 Feb 2013 |
Monitoring Adult Learning Policies
The main task of the Working Group on Adult Learning of the INES Labour Market, Economic and Social Outcomes network is the development of indicators on Adult Learning for publication in the annual volume “Education at a Glance” of the OECD. As part... |
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No. 87 | 10 May 2013 |
Analysis of the Predictive Power of PISA Test Items
The predictive power of the PISA test items for future student success is examined based on data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) for the PISA 2003 cohort. This working paper analyses how students’ responses to mathematics and... |
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No. 86 | 10 Jan 2013 |
Progression in Student Creativity in School
Creativity is widely accepted as being an important outcome of schooling. Yet there are many different views about what it is, how best it can be cultivated in young people and whether or how it should be assessed. And in many national curricula... |
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No. 85 | 10 Oct 2012 |
Looking Beyond the Numbers: Stakeholders and Multiple School Accountability
How to hold autonomous schools and school governing boards accountable for their decisions and performance has become a particularly pressing question for central governments in many OECD countries. Increasing complexity in education systems has led... |
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No. 84 | 03 Oct 2012 |
Business-Driven Innovation: Is it Making a Difference in Education?
This paper analyses business-driven innovation in education by looking at education-related patents. It first draws a picture of the challenges for innovation in the formal education sector, which suffers from a poor knowledge ecology: science is... |
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Evaluating Measurement Invariance of TALIS 2013 Complex Scales
Deana Desa
17 Jun 2014
This paper evaluates measurement invariance of complex scales from a social survey using both a continuous approach and a categorical approach to help inform future decisions in choosing the most appropriate methods to perform the validation of...
Comparison of PIAAC and PISA Frameworks for Numeracy and Mathematical Literacy
Iddo Gal and Dave Tout
27 May 2014
This paper describes key aspects of the frameworks for the assessment of adult numeracy and mathematical literacy in PIAAC and PISA, which are OECD two flagship programs for international comparative assessment of competencies. The paper examines...
Returns to Skills Around the World
Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold and Ludger Woessmann
17 Dec 2013
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human...
Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education
Sabine Hoidn and Kiira Kärkkäinen
16 Jan 2014
Higher education plays an important role in providing people with skills for innovation, but a number of important questions remain as to what kind of higher education teaching can be conducive to the strengthening of skills for innovation. This...
Learning Standards, Teaching Standards and Standards for School Principals
Centre of Study for Policies and Practices in Education (CEPPE), Chile
18 Dec 2013
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in...
Coping with Very Weak Primary Schools: Towards Smart Interventions in Dutch Education Policy
Mark van Twist, Martijn van der Steen, Marieke Kleiboer, Jorren Scherpenisse and Henno Theisens
13 Dec 2013
This case study looks at the effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at reducing the number of underperforming primary schools in a system with a long tradition of school autonomy. It reviews relevant Dutch policy developments in education since...
Balancing Trust and Accountability? The Assessment for Learning Programme in Norway
Therese Hopfenbeck, Astrid Tolo, Teresa Florez and Yasmine El Masri
13 Dec 2013
This report explores the development of implementation strategies used to enhance the programme “Assessment for Learning – 2010-2014” in Norwegian schools. Norway’s educational governance is highly decentralised, with 428 municipalities and 19...
The Simple, the Complicated, and the Complex: Educational Reform Through the Lens of Complexity Theory
Sean Snyder
12 Dec 2013
This paper explores the nature of complexity theory and its applications for educational reform. It briefly explains the history of complexity theory and identifies the key concepts of complex adaptive systems, and then moves on to define the...
Schooling Matters
William H. Schmidt, Pablo Zoido and Leland S. Cogan
06 Jan 2014
Many international comparisons of education over the past 50 years have included some measure of students’ opportunity to learn (OTL) in their schooling. Results have typically confirmed the common sense notion that a student’s exposure in school to...
Learning Study
Eric C.K. Cheng and Mun Ling Lo
04 Nov 2013
Learning Study is a collaborative, action-research approach to improve the effectiveness of student learning by enhancing the professional competence of teachers. This is achieved through the collaborative construction of the pedagogical content...
PISA in Low and Middle Income Countries
Simone Bloem
20 Aug 2013
This paper explores the participation of low- and middle-income countries in OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). It provides a detailed description of partner countries’ participation across PISA rounds and the challenges...
Understanding School Building Policy and Practice in Belgium's Flemish Community
Geert Leemans and Hannah von Ahlefeld
14 May 2013
This paper describes a conceptual framework that can be used to interpret the general policy issues driving the design, construction, maintenance and evaluation of school buildings in Belgium’s Flemish Community. Within the context of this framework,...
Sparking Innovation in STEM Education with Technology and Collaboration
Kiira Kärkkäinen and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin
17 Apr 2013
This report highlights innovative technology-supported pedagogic models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, explores what to expect from collaboration in a designed network, and, thereafter, sketches lessons for...
Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools
Francesco Avvisati, Sara Hennessy, Robert B. Kozma and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin
29 Mar 2013
The Italian Ministry of Education launched in 2007 a National Plan for Digital Schools (Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale) to mainstream Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Italian classrooms and use technology as a catalyser of innovation in...
Learning from International Experiences with Interactive Whiteboards
Sara Hennessy and Laura London
27 Mar 2013
This paper describes teacher strategies and experiences with interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and draws on the published research in this area to understand how a systemic approach to technology-based innovations in schools can contribute to quality...
Monitoring Adult Learning Policies
Anna Borkowsky
19 Feb 2013
The main task of the Working Group on Adult Learning of the INES Labour Market, Economic and Social Outcomes network is the development of indicators on Adult Learning for publication in the annual volume “Education at a Glance” of the OECD. As part...
Analysis of the Predictive Power of PISA Test Items
Maciej Jakubowski
10 May 2013
The predictive power of the PISA test items for future student success is examined based on data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) for the PISA 2003 cohort. This working paper analyses how students’ responses to mathematics and...
Progression in Student Creativity in School
Bill Lucas, Guy Claxton and Ellen Spencer
10 Jan 2013
Creativity is widely accepted as being an important outcome of schooling. Yet there are many different views about what it is, how best it can be cultivated in young people and whether or how it should be assessed. And in many national curricula...
Looking Beyond the Numbers: Stakeholders and Multiple School Accountability
Edith Hooge, Tracey Burns and Harald Wilkoszewski
10 Oct 2012
How to hold autonomous schools and school governing boards accountable for their decisions and performance has become a particularly pressing question for central governments in many OECD countries. Increasing complexity in education systems has led...
Business-Driven Innovation: Is it Making a Difference in Education?
Dominique Foray and Julio Raffo
03 Oct 2012
This paper analyses business-driven innovation in education by looking at education-related patents. It first draws a picture of the challenges for innovation in the formal education sector, which suffers from a poor knowledge ecology: science is...