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No. 41 | 01 Jul 2014 |
Do 15-year-olds Know How to Manage Money?
On average across the 13 OECD countries and economies that participated in the PISA financial literacy assessment, 10% of students can analyse complex financial products and solve non-routine financial problems, while 15% can, at best, make simple... |
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No. 42 | 01 Aug 2014 |
When is Competition Between Schools Beneficial?
In most school systems, over 50% of 15-year-olds students attend schools that compete with another school to attract students from the same residential area. Across countries and economies, performance is unrelated to whether or not schools have to... |
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No. 43 | 01 Sept 2014 |
Are Disadvantaged Students more Likely to Repeat Grades?
One in eight students across OECD countries has repeated a grade at least once before the age of 15. Many countries reduced the rate of grade repetition between 2003 and 2012. One in five disadvantaged 15-year-olds has repeated a grade. Even among... |
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No. 44 | 01 Oct 2014 |
How is Equity in Resource Allocation Related to Student Performance?
How educational resources are allocated is just as important as the amount of resources available. High-performing countries and economies tend to allocate resources more equitably across socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged schools. Among... |
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No. 45 | 01 Nov 2014 |
Do Countries with High Mean Performance in PISA Maintain their Lead as Students Age?
Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high standards internationally tend to be the same countries where these young adults tend to perform well at the age of 26 to 28. School systems need to ensure that their students perform at a high... |
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No. 46 | 01 Dec 2014 |
Does Homework Perpetuate Inequities in Education?
While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged... |
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No. 47 | 01 Jan 2015 |
How has Student Performance Evolved Over Time?
Every three years, when PISA results are published, the world’s media focuses on countries’ rankings in mathematics, reading and science performance. Often, what is lost in the subsequent national-level soulsearching about how to improve student... |
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No. 48 | 01 Feb 2015 |
Does Math Make You Anxious?
Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards mathematics. Teachers’ use of... |
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No. 49 | 01 Mar 2015 |
What Lies Behind Gender Inequality in Education?
While PISA reveals large gender differences in reading, in favour of 15-year-old girls, the gap is narrower when digital reading skills are tested. Indeed, the Survey of Adult Skills suggests that there are no significant gender differences in... |
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No. 50 | 01 Apr 2015 |
Do teacher-student relations affect students' well-being at school?
Children spend about a third of their waking hours in school during most weeks in the year. Thus, schools have a significant impact on children’s quality of life – including their relationships with peers and adults, and their dispositions towards... |
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No. 51 | 01 May 2015 |
What do parents look for in their child's school?
When choosing a school for their child, parents in all participating countries value academic achievement highly; but they are often even more concerned about the safety and environment of the school and the school’s reputation. The children of... |
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No. 52 | 01 Jun 2015 |
How have schools changed over the past decade?
The quantity and quality of resources available to schools improved significantly between 2003 and 2012, on average across OECD countries. Greater financial investments in education provided schools with better teaching staff, instructional materials... |
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No. 53 | 09 Jul 2015 |
Can the performance gap between immigrant and non-immigrant students be closed?
The share of students with an immigrant background increased between 2003 and 2012, both in traditional and new destination countries. The performance difference in mathematics between immigrant and non-immigrant students decreased, on average,... |
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No. 54 | 25 Aug 2015 |
Is spending more hours in class better for learning?
Regardless of the type of school attended (public or private, advantaged or disadvantaged), 15-year-old students spent more time in mathematics lessons in 2012 than in 2003. The average amount of time spent in mathematics classes varies by more than... |
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No. 55 | 15 Sept 2015 |
Who are the best online readers?
The top-performing country in the PISA assessment of digital reading was Singapore, followed by Korea, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Canada and Shanghai-China. Students in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Korea, Singapore and the United States show the most... |
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No. 56 | 13 Oct 2015 |
How confident are students in their ability to solve mathematics problems?
On average across OECD countries, students’ belief that they can solve mathematics problems (mathematics self-efficacy) is associated with a difference of 49 score points in mathematics – the equivalent of one year of school. There is a strong... |
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No. 57 | 16 Nov 2015 |
Can schools help to integrate immigrants?
Only in some countries is a larger proportion of immigrant students in schools related to lower student performance – and this relationship is mostly explained by the concentration of disadvantaged students in these schools. Immigrant students from... |
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No. 58 | 09 Dec 2015 |
Who wants to become a teacher?
Across OECD countries, 5% of students expect to work as teachers: 3% of boys and 6% of girls. The academic profile of students who expect to work as teachers varies, but in many OECD countries,students who expect to work as teachers have poorer... |
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No. 59 | 12 Jan 2016 |
Does it matter how much time students spend on line outside of school?
In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common online activities among 15-year-olds were browsing the Internet for fun and participating in social networks, with over 70% of... |
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No. 60 | 10 Feb 2016 |
Who are the low-performing students?
No country or economy participating in PISA 2012 can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved basic proficiency skills in mathematics, reading and science. Some 28% of students score below the baseline level of proficiency in at least... |
PISA in Focus
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Do 15-year-olds Know How to Manage Money?
OECD
01 Jul 2014
On average across the 13 OECD countries and economies that participated in the PISA financial literacy assessment, 10% of students can analyse complex financial products and solve non-routine financial problems, while 15% can, at best, make simple...
When is Competition Between Schools Beneficial?
OECD
01 Aug 2014
In most school systems, over 50% of 15-year-olds students attend schools that compete with another school to attract students from the same residential area. Across countries and economies, performance is unrelated to whether or not schools have to...
Are Disadvantaged Students more Likely to Repeat Grades?
OECD
01 Sept 2014
One in eight students across OECD countries has repeated a grade at least once before the age of 15. Many countries reduced the rate of grade repetition between 2003 and 2012. One in five disadvantaged 15-year-olds has repeated a grade. Even among...
How is Equity in Resource Allocation Related to Student Performance?
OECD
01 Oct 2014
How educational resources are allocated is just as important as the amount of resources available. High-performing countries and economies tend to allocate resources more equitably across socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged schools. Among...
Do Countries with High Mean Performance in PISA Maintain their Lead as Students Age?
OECD
01 Nov 2014
Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high standards internationally tend to be the same countries where these young adults tend to perform well at the age of 26 to 28. School systems need to ensure that their students perform at a high...
Does Homework Perpetuate Inequities in Education?
OECD
01 Dec 2014
While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged...
How has Student Performance Evolved Over Time?
OECD
01 Jan 2015
Every three years, when PISA results are published, the world’s media focuses on countries’ rankings in mathematics, reading and science performance. Often, what is lost in the subsequent national-level soulsearching about how to improve student...
Does Math Make You Anxious?
OECD
01 Feb 2015
Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards mathematics. Teachers’ use of...
What Lies Behind Gender Inequality in Education?
OECD
01 Mar 2015
While PISA reveals large gender differences in reading, in favour of 15-year-old girls, the gap is narrower when digital reading skills are tested. Indeed, the Survey of Adult Skills suggests that there are no significant gender differences in...
Do teacher-student relations affect students' well-being at school?
OECD
01 Apr 2015
Children spend about a third of their waking hours in school during most weeks in the year. Thus, schools have a significant impact on children’s quality of life – including their relationships with peers and adults, and their dispositions towards...
What do parents look for in their child's school?
OECD
01 May 2015
When choosing a school for their child, parents in all participating countries value academic achievement highly; but they are often even more concerned about the safety and environment of the school and the school’s reputation. The children of...
How have schools changed over the past decade?
OECD
01 Jun 2015
The quantity and quality of resources available to schools improved significantly between 2003 and 2012, on average across OECD countries. Greater financial investments in education provided schools with better teaching staff, instructional materials...
The share of students with an immigrant background increased between 2003 and 2012, both in traditional and new destination countries. The performance difference in mathematics between immigrant and non-immigrant students decreased, on average,...
Is spending more hours in class better for learning?
OECD
25 Aug 2015
Regardless of the type of school attended (public or private, advantaged or disadvantaged), 15-year-old students spent more time in mathematics lessons in 2012 than in 2003. The average amount of time spent in mathematics classes varies by more than...
Who are the best online readers?
OECD
15 Sept 2015
The top-performing country in the PISA assessment of digital reading was Singapore, followed by Korea, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Canada and Shanghai-China. Students in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Korea, Singapore and the United States show the most...
On average across OECD countries, students’ belief that they can solve mathematics problems (mathematics self-efficacy) is associated with a difference of 49 score points in mathematics – the equivalent of one year of school. There is a strong...
Can schools help to integrate immigrants?
OECD
16 Nov 2015
Only in some countries is a larger proportion of immigrant students in schools related to lower student performance – and this relationship is mostly explained by the concentration of disadvantaged students in these schools. Immigrant students from...
Who wants to become a teacher?
OECD
09 Dec 2015
Across OECD countries, 5% of students expect to work as teachers: 3% of boys and 6% of girls. The academic profile of students who expect to work as teachers varies, but in many OECD countries,students who expect to work as teachers have poorer...
In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common online activities among 15-year-olds were browsing the Internet for fun and participating in social networks, with over 70% of...
Who are the low-performing students?
OECD
10 Feb 2016
No country or economy participating in PISA 2012 can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved basic proficiency skills in mathematics, reading and science. Some 28% of students score below the baseline level of proficiency in at least...