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No. 10 | 01 Nov 2011 |
What Can Parents Do to Help Their Children Succeed in School?
Most parents know, instinctively, that spending more time with their children and being actively involved in their education will give their children a good head-start in life. But as many parents have to juggle competing demands at work and at home,... |
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No. 33 | 01 Nov 2013 |
What Do Immigrant Students Tell Us About the Quality of Education Systems?
Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar... |
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No. 23 | 01 Dec 2012 |
What Do Students Expect To Do After Finishing Upper Secondary School?
The percentage of students who expect to complete university is highest in Korea (80%) and lowest in Latvia (25%).Many high-performing students do not expect to go to university, representing potentially lost talent to an economy and society while... |
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No. 24 | 01 Jan 2013 |
What Do Students Think About School?
Most students think that what they learned in school is useful for them or their future. Students’ attitudes towards school are associated with their reading skills. Students who report that the climate at their school is conducive to learning tend... |
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No. 14 | 01 Mar 2012 |
What Kinds of Careers do Boys and Girls Expect for Themselves?
When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer “a man” to the first question, and “a woman” to the... |
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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. 28 | 01 May 2013 |
What Makes Urban Schools Different?
In most countries and economies, students who attend schools in urban areas tend to perform at higher levels than other students. Socio-economic status explains only part of the performance difference between students who attend urban schools and... |
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No. 117 | 26 Apr 2022 |
What can we do to ensure a level playing field for all students?
Many education systems aim to provide learning opportunities to all students regardless of their backgrounds in order for them to realise their potential. Education systems are expected to break down barriers to social mobility. However, too often,... |
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No. 121 | 28 Apr 2023 |
What can we learn from the PISA reading-fluency test?
Proficient readers use and engage with a variety of texts, including books, online articles and social media. They can find information, understand the literal and the implied meaning, and reflect critically on content and form. But before students... |
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No. 72 | 24 May 2017 |
What do 15-year-olds really know about money?
Globalisation and digital technologies have made financial services and products more widely accessible and at the same time more complex to handle. Responsibility for investing in higher education or planning for retirement is increasingly assumed... |
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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. 81 | 07 Feb 2018 |
What do science teachers find most satisfying about their work?
Teachers play a vital role in the lives of their students. They impart knowledge, provide pastoral care, act as role models and, above all, create an environment that’s conducive to learning. But teaching is fraught with numerous challenges that... |
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No. 70 | 21 Mar 2017 |
What do we know about teachers’ selection and professional development in high-performing countries?
High-performing countries use various mechanisms to select the best candidates to the teaching profession. In Finland, Hong-Kong (China), Macao (China) and Chinese Taipei, students who wish to enter teacher-training programmes must pass a competitive... |
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No. 69 | 27 Feb 2017 |
What kind of careers in science do 15-year-old boys and girls expect for themselves?
On average across OECD countries, almost one in four students – whether boy or girl – expects to work in an occupation that requires further science training beyond compulsory education. This brief highlights the kinds of science careers 15-year-olds... |
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No. 84 | 15 May 2018 |
What kinds of activities are common among teenagers who work well with others?
Schools are not just four walls inside of which students learn how to read, write and think. Schools provide a venue where young people meet each other, and where they develop relationships and friendships that may last for decades. At school,... |
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No. 6 | 01 Jul 2011 |
When Students Repeat Grades or Are Transferred Out of School
School systems handle the challenges of diverse student populations in different ways. Some countries have non-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual schools... |
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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. 68 | 31 Jan 2017 |
Where did equity in education improve over the past decade?
The persistence of social inequities in education – the fact that children of wealthy and highly educated parents tend to do better in school than children from less privileged families – is often seen as a difficult-to-reverse feature of education... |
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No. 103 | 28 Jan 2020 |
Where did reading proficiency improve over time?
Evolving technologies have changed the ways people read and exchange information, whether at home, at school or in the workplace. When PISA assessed 15-year-olds’ reading literacy for the first time, in 2000, only in two countries – Canada and Norway... |
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No. 35 | 01 Jan 2014 |
Who Are the School Truants?
Across OECD countries, 18% of students skipped classes at least once in the two weeks prior to the PISA test, and 15% of students skipped a day of school or more over the same period. Few students in high-performing school systems skip classes or... |
PISA in Focus
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What Can Parents Do to Help Their Children Succeed in School?
OECD
01 Nov 2011
Most parents know, instinctively, that spending more time with their children and being actively involved in their education will give their children a good head-start in life. But as many parents have to juggle competing demands at work and at home,...
Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar...
The percentage of students who expect to complete university is highest in Korea (80%) and lowest in Latvia (25%).Many high-performing students do not expect to go to university, representing potentially lost talent to an economy and society while...
What Do Students Think About School?
OECD
01 Jan 2013
Most students think that what they learned in school is useful for them or their future. Students’ attitudes towards school are associated with their reading skills. Students who report that the climate at their school is conducive to learning tend...
What Kinds of Careers do Boys and Girls Expect for Themselves?
OECD
01 Mar 2012
When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer “a man” to the first question, and “a woman” to the...
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...
What Makes Urban Schools Different?
OECD
01 May 2013
In most countries and economies, students who attend schools in urban areas tend to perform at higher levels than other students. Socio-economic status explains only part of the performance difference between students who attend urban schools and...
What can we do to ensure a level playing field for all students?
Miyako Ikeda
26 Apr 2022
Many education systems aim to provide learning opportunities to all students regardless of their backgrounds in order for them to realise their potential. Education systems are expected to break down barriers to social mobility. However, too often,...
What can we learn from the PISA reading-fluency test?
Francesco Avvisati
28 Apr 2023
Proficient readers use and engage with a variety of texts, including books, online articles and social media. They can find information, understand the literal and the implied meaning, and reflect critically on content and form. But before students...
What do 15-year-olds really know about money?
OECD
24 May 2017
Globalisation and digital technologies have made financial services and products more widely accessible and at the same time more complex to handle. Responsibility for investing in higher education or planning for retirement is increasingly assumed...
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...
What do science teachers find most satisfying about their work?
Tarek Mostafa
07 Feb 2018
Teachers play a vital role in the lives of their students. They impart knowledge, provide pastoral care, act as role models and, above all, create an environment that’s conducive to learning. But teaching is fraught with numerous challenges that...
What do we know about teachers’ selection and professional development in high-performing countries?
OECD
21 Mar 2017
High-performing countries use various mechanisms to select the best candidates to the teaching profession. In Finland, Hong-Kong (China), Macao (China) and Chinese Taipei, students who wish to enter teacher-training programmes must pass a competitive...
What kind of careers in science do 15-year-old boys and girls expect for themselves?
OECD
27 Feb 2017
On average across OECD countries, almost one in four students – whether boy or girl – expects to work in an occupation that requires further science training beyond compulsory education. This brief highlights the kinds of science careers 15-year-olds...
What kinds of activities are common among teenagers who work well with others?
Jeffrey Mo
15 May 2018
Schools are not just four walls inside of which students learn how to read, write and think. Schools provide a venue where young people meet each other, and where they develop relationships and friendships that may last for decades. At school,...
When Students Repeat Grades or Are Transferred Out of School
OECD
01 Jul 2011
School systems handle the challenges of diverse student populations in different ways. Some countries have non-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual schools...
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...
Where did equity in education improve over the past decade?
OECD
31 Jan 2017
The persistence of social inequities in education – the fact that children of wealthy and highly educated parents tend to do better in school than children from less privileged families – is often seen as a difficult-to-reverse feature of education...
Where did reading proficiency improve over time?
Francesco Avvisati
28 Jan 2020
Evolving technologies have changed the ways people read and exchange information, whether at home, at school or in the workplace. When PISA assessed 15-year-olds’ reading literacy for the first time, in 2000, only in two countries – Canada and Norway...
Who Are the School Truants?
OECD
01 Jan 2014
Across OECD countries, 18% of students skipped classes at least once in the two weeks prior to the PISA test, and 15% of students skipped a day of school or more over the same period. Few students in high-performing school systems skip classes or...