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No. 65 | 11 Oct 2011 |
Student Standardised Testing
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning student standardised testing in which there are no-stakes for students (“standardised testing”) through a literature review and a review of the trends in standardised testing in OECD... |
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No. 64 | 02 Dec 2011 |
Alignment in Complex Education Systems
The majority of OECD countries now implement one form or another of standards-based assessment and evaluation. The core logic of standards-based systems rests upon the alignment of three key elements: standards defining the knowledge and skills – or... |
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No. 63 | 17 Oct 2011 |
An Analysis of Skill Mismatch Using Direct Measures of Skills
The focus of this study is on the potential causes of skill mismatch, the extent of skill mismatch, the sociodemographic make-up of skill mismatch, and the consequences of skill mismatch in terms of earnings as well as employer sponsored adult... |
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No. 62 | 06 Feb 2012 |
Access to Education Over the Working Life in Sweden
To facilitate individuals to adjust their skills to changes in market demands, Sweden has a relatively generous policy to stimulate formal adult education at the compulsory, upper secondary and tertiary levels. This paper provides an overview of what... |
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No. 61 | 20 Sept 2011 |
ICT and Initial Teacher Education
This working paper aims to give an overview of the national policies that exist in the field of ICT and initial teacher education. Information on this topic was initially gathered via a survey, in the form of a country questionnaire, which was... |
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No. 60 | 21 Feb 2011 |
A Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected Desired/Learning Outcomes in Engineering
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse... |
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No. 59 | 21 Feb 2011 |
Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected and Desired Learning Outcomes in Economics
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse... |
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No. 58 | 08 Apr 2011 |
Integrating Formative and Summative Assessment
A long-held ambition for many educators and assessment experts has been to integrate summative and formative assessments so that data from external assessments used for system monitoring may also be used to shape teaching and learning in classrooms.... |
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No. 57 | 17 Feb 2011 |
Gendered Career Expectations of Students
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent career plans reported in PISA 2006. Its main focus is on the differences in the status and area of employment expected by girls and boys in high school. In almost all countries, girls lead... |
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No. 56 | 01 Feb 2011 |
OECD Educationtoday Crisis Survey 2010
The second OECD educationtoday Crisis Survey was carried out in 2010. Twenty-five OECD member countries completed the questionnaire. The results of the survey relies largely on the informed opinion of education officials regarding various aspects of... |
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No. 55 | 07 Jan 2011 |
Workforce Skills and Innovation
This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence in the literature on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline,... |
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No. 54 | 22 Nov 2010 |
Using Student Test Results for Accountability and Improvement
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning using student test results in OECD countries. Initially the report provides an overview of how student test results are reported in OECD countries and how stakeholders in these countries use... |
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No. 53 | 09 Nov 2010 |
Taking on the Completion Challenge
This paper reviews international research in the field of dropout from upper secondary education and training in OECD countries in order to present possible solutions to policymakers faced with the completion challenge. The paper begins by presenting... |
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No. 52 | 21 Oct 2010 |
Markets in Education
In the last three decennia, many governments have introduced market mechanisms in education. They have done so by enhancing parental choice and encouraging school competition, through policies like abolishing catchment areas, creating voucher... |
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No. 50 | 01 Jul 2010 |
Education, Alcohol Use and Abuse Among Young Adults in Britain
In this article we explore the relationship between education and alcohol consumption. We examine whether the probability of abusing alcohol differs across educational groups. We use data from the British Cohort Study, a longitudinal study of one... |
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No. 49 | 09 Jun 2011 |
The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland
Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, especially in formerly socialist countries. However, the transition to market economies led to significant restructuring of school systems... |
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No. 48 | 01 Jul 2010 |
Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Training Policies in a Comparative Perspective
To design policies that allow to educate and train teachers, capable of helping students to acquire the competencies needed to evolve in today‘s societies and labour markets is an amazing challenge. In today‘s context, with the undergoing economic... |
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No. 47 | 01 Apr 2010 |
International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment
This report presents the findings of our review of the evidence base on comparative practices of teacher selection and recruitment, specifically on the different mechanisms countries use to assess teacher readiness to take up teaching posts, with... |
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No. 46 | 31 Mar 2010 |
Analysis of PISA 2006 Preferred Items Ranking Using the Percent-Correct Method
This paper uses an approximate average percent-correct methodology to compare the ranks that would be obtained for PISA 2006 countries if the rankings had been derived from items judged by each country to be of highest priority for inclusion. The... |
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No. 45 | 05 Mar 2010 |
How Technology Changes Demands for Human Skills
This paper places the competencies to be measured by the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in the context of the technological developments which are reshaping the nature of the workplace and work in the... |
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Student Standardised Testing
Allison Morris
11 Oct 2011
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning student standardised testing in which there are no-stakes for students (“standardised testing”) through a literature review and a review of the trends in standardised testing in OECD...
Alignment in Complex Education Systems
Janet Looney
02 Dec 2011
The majority of OECD countries now implement one form or another of standards-based assessment and evaluation. The core logic of standards-based systems rests upon the alignment of three key elements: standards defining the knowledge and skills – or...
An Analysis of Skill Mismatch Using Direct Measures of Skills
Richard Desjardins and Kjell Rubenson
17 Oct 2011
The focus of this study is on the potential causes of skill mismatch, the extent of skill mismatch, the sociodemographic make-up of skill mismatch, and the consequences of skill mismatch in terms of earnings as well as employer sponsored adult...
Access to Education Over the Working Life in Sweden
Anders Stenberg
06 Feb 2012
To facilitate individuals to adjust their skills to changes in market demands, Sweden has a relatively generous policy to stimulate formal adult education at the compulsory, upper secondary and tertiary levels. This paper provides an overview of what...
ICT and Initial Teacher Education
Caroline Rizza
20 Sept 2011
This working paper aims to give an overview of the national policies that exist in the field of ICT and initial teacher education. Information on this topic was initially gathered via a survey, in the form of a country questionnaire, which was...
A Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected Desired/Learning Outcomes in Engineering
OECD
21 Feb 2011
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse...
Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected and Desired Learning Outcomes in Economics
OECD
21 Feb 2011
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse...
Integrating Formative and Summative Assessment
Janet Looney
08 Apr 2011
A long-held ambition for many educators and assessment experts has been to integrate summative and formative assessments so that data from external assessments used for system monitoring may also be used to shape teaching and learning in classrooms....
Gendered Career Expectations of Students
Joanna Sikora and Artur Pokropek
17 Feb 2011
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent career plans reported in PISA 2006. Its main focus is on the differences in the status and area of employment expected by girls and boys in high school. In almost all countries, girls lead...
OECD Educationtoday Crisis Survey 2010
Dirk Van Damme and Kiira Kärkkäinen
01 Feb 2011
The second OECD educationtoday Crisis Survey was carried out in 2010. Twenty-five OECD member countries completed the questionnaire. The results of the survey relies largely on the informed opinion of education officials regarding various aspects of...
Workforce Skills and Innovation
Phillip Toner
07 Jan 2011
This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence in the literature on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline,...
Using Student Test Results for Accountability and Improvement
Morten Anstorp Rosenkvist
22 Nov 2010
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning using student test results in OECD countries. Initially the report provides an overview of how student test results are reported in OECD countries and how stakeholders in these countries use...
Taking on the Completion Challenge
Cecilia S. Lyche
09 Nov 2010
This paper reviews international research in the field of dropout from upper secondary education and training in OECD countries in order to present possible solutions to policymakers faced with the completion challenge. The paper begins by presenting...
Markets in Education
Sietske Waslander, Cissy Pater and Maartje van der Weide
21 Oct 2010
In the last three decennia, many governments have introduced market mechanisms in education. They have done so by enhancing parental choice and encouraging school competition, through policies like abolishing catchment areas, creating voucher...
Education, Alcohol Use and Abuse Among Young Adults in Britain
María del Carmen Huerta and Francesca Borgonovi
01 Jul 2010
In this article we explore the relationship between education and alcohol consumption. We examine whether the probability of abusing alcohol differs across educational groups. We use data from the British Cohort Study, a longitudinal study of one...
The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland
OECD
09 Jun 2011
Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, especially in formerly socialist countries. However, the transition to market economies led to significant restructuring of school systems...
Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Training Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Pauline Musset
01 Jul 2010
To design policies that allow to educate and train teachers, capable of helping students to acquire the competencies needed to evolve in today‘s societies and labour markets is an amazing challenge. In today‘s context, with the undergoing economic...
International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment
Andrew J. Hobson, Patricia Ashby, Joanna McIntyre and Angi Malderez
01 Apr 2010
This report presents the findings of our review of the evidence base on comparative practices of teacher selection and recruitment, specifically on the different mechanisms countries use to assess teacher readiness to take up teaching posts, with...
Analysis of PISA 2006 Preferred Items Ranking Using the Percent-Correct Method
Ray Adams, Alla Berezner and Maciej Jakubowski
31 Mar 2010
This paper uses an approximate average percent-correct methodology to compare the ranks that would be obtained for PISA 2006 countries if the rankings had been derived from items judged by each country to be of highest priority for inclusion. The...
How Technology Changes Demands for Human Skills
Frank Levy
05 Mar 2010
This paper places the competencies to be measured by the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in the context of the technological developments which are reshaping the nature of the workplace and work in the...