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No. 94 | 12 Mar 2019 |
Does attending a rural school make a difference in how and what you learn?
The rural education landscape once consisted of one-room schools where a single teacher educated, took care of and supervised students of diverse ages. While multi-grade teaching is still common in many schools, particularly in primary education,... |
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No. 40 | 01 Jun 2014 |
Does Pre-primary Education Reach Those Who Need it Most?
Attendance in pre-primary education is associated with better student performance later on. Fifteen-year-old students in 2012 were more likely than 15-year-olds in 2003 to have attended at least one year of pre-primary education. The gap in... |
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No. 16 | 01 May 2012 |
Does Performance-Based Pay Improve Teaching?
PISA has long established that high-performing education systems tend to pay their teachers more. They also often prioritise the quality of teaching over other choices, including class size. But in the current budgetary climate, paying everybody more... |
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No. 1 | 01 Feb 2011 |
Does Participation in Pre-Primary Education Translate into Better Learning Outcomes at School?
It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact, the... |
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No. 13 | 01 Feb 2012 |
Does Money Buy Strong Performance in PISA?
This issue will show that strong performers do not invest scarce resources in smaller classes, but in higher teachers' salaries. They are neither the countries that spend the most on education, nor are they the wealthiest countries; rather they are... |
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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. 3 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Does Investing in After-School Classes Pay Off?
With all the competition to get into the right universities to secure the best jobs, secondary school students are often encouraged to take after-school classes in subjects already taught in school to help them improve their performance – even if... |
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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. 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. 73 | 20 Jun 2017 |
Do students spend enough time learning?
In some countries and economies, such as Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong (China), Qatar,Thailand, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, students spend at least 54 hours per week learning at and outside of school combined, whereas in others, like... |
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No. 107 | 06 Jul 2020 |
Do students learn in co-operative or competitive environments
The benefits of co-operative behaviours have been broadly documented in various social contexts, including neighbourhoods, hospitals, companies and in education. In education, when students, teachers, parents and the school principal know and trust... |
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No. 98 | 09 Jul 2019 |
Do parents of 15-year-olds know many of their child’s school friends and their parents?
Parents often establish fruitful relationships with teachers, students and other parents at their child’s school. By doing so, they might gain new friends and help their child’s academic career; but more crucially, they may contribute indirectly to... |
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No. 111 | 08 Mar 2021 |
Do girls and boys engage with global and intercultural issues differently?
In recent years, more attention has been paid to the way gender interacts with intercultural and global learning opportunities. While evidence shows that schools are shaping a gendered citizenry, the notions of citizenship in this research has been... |
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No. 105 | 09 Mar 2020 |
Do boys and girls have similar attitudes towards competition and failure?
While in most countries today women attain higher levels of education than men, on average, they are less likely than men to be employed and they earn less. There are many reasons why these gender gaps open; some are apparent in secondary school. For... |
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No. 109 | 22 Oct 2020 |
Do all students have equal opportunities to learn global and intercultural skills at school?
Many education systems seek to create an open, diverse and tolerant society, as education can play a significant role in countering racial, ethnic and national prejudice among children and adolescents. Education for living in an interconnected and... |
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No. 21 | 01 Oct 2012 |
Do Today's 15-Year-Olds Feel Environmentally Responsible?
Most 15-year-olds in OECD countries have some understanding of environmental issues and feel that threats to the environment are a serious concern for them and/or for other people in their country.Scientific understanding of the environment is key if... |
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No. 8 | 01 Sept 2011 |
Do Students Today Read for Pleasure?
Students who are highly engaged in a wide range of reading activities are more likely than other students to be effective learners and to perform well at school. Research also documents a strong link between reading practices, motivation and... |
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No. 32 | 01 Sept 2013 |
Do Students Perform Better in Schools with Orderly Classrooms?
Most students enjoy orderly classrooms for their language-of-instruction lessons. Socio-economically disadvantaged students are less likely to enjoy orderly classrooms than advantaged students. Orderly classrooms – regardless of the school’s overall... |
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No. 37 | 01 Mar 2014 |
Do Students Have the Drive to Succeed?
When students believe that investing effort in learning will make a difference, they score significantly higher in mathematics. The fact that large proportions of students in most countries consistently believe that student achievement is mainly a... |
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No. 36 | 01 Feb 2014 |
Do Parents' Occupations Have an Impact on Student Performance?
Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. The strength of the relationship... |
PISA in Focus
English Also available in: French
- ISSN: 22260919 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/22260919
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Does attending a rural school make a difference in how and what you learn?
Alfonso Echazarra and Thomas Radinger
12 Mar 2019
The rural education landscape once consisted of one-room schools where a single teacher educated, took care of and supervised students of diverse ages. While multi-grade teaching is still common in many schools, particularly in primary education,...
Does Pre-primary Education Reach Those Who Need it Most?
OECD
01 Jun 2014
Attendance in pre-primary education is associated with better student performance later on. Fifteen-year-old students in 2012 were more likely than 15-year-olds in 2003 to have attended at least one year of pre-primary education. The gap in...
Does Performance-Based Pay Improve Teaching?
OECD
01 May 2012
PISA has long established that high-performing education systems tend to pay their teachers more. They also often prioritise the quality of teaching over other choices, including class size. But in the current budgetary climate, paying everybody more...
Does Participation in Pre-Primary Education Translate into Better Learning Outcomes at School?
OECD
01 Feb 2011
It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact, the...
Does Money Buy Strong Performance in PISA?
OECD
01 Feb 2012
This issue will show that strong performers do not invest scarce resources in smaller classes, but in higher teachers' salaries. They are neither the countries that spend the most on education, nor are they the wealthiest countries; rather they are...
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...
Does Investing in After-School Classes Pay Off?
OECD
01 Apr 2011
With all the competition to get into the right universities to secure the best jobs, secondary school students are often encouraged to take after-school classes in subjects already taught in school to help them improve their performance – even if...
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...
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...
Do students spend enough time learning?
OECD
20 Jun 2017
In some countries and economies, such as Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong (China), Qatar,Thailand, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, students spend at least 54 hours per week learning at and outside of school combined, whereas in others, like...
Do students learn in co-operative or competitive environments
Alfonso Echazarra
06 Jul 2020
The benefits of co-operative behaviours have been broadly documented in various social contexts, including neighbourhoods, hospitals, companies and in education. In education, when students, teachers, parents and the school principal know and trust...
Do parents of 15-year-olds know many of their child’s school friends and their parents?
Alfonso Echazarra
09 Jul 2019
Parents often establish fruitful relationships with teachers, students and other parents at their child’s school. By doing so, they might gain new friends and help their child’s academic career; but more crucially, they may contribute indirectly to...
Do girls and boys engage with global and intercultural issues differently?
Tarek Mostafa
08 Mar 2021
In recent years, more attention has been paid to the way gender interacts with intercultural and global learning opportunities. While evidence shows that schools are shaping a gendered citizenry, the notions of citizenship in this research has been...
Do boys and girls have similar attitudes towards competition and failure?
Pauline Givord
09 Mar 2020
While in most countries today women attain higher levels of education than men, on average, they are less likely than men to be employed and they earn less. There are many reasons why these gender gaps open; some are apparent in secondary school. For...
Do all students have equal opportunities to learn global and intercultural skills at school?
Tarek Mostafa
22 Oct 2020
Many education systems seek to create an open, diverse and tolerant society, as education can play a significant role in countering racial, ethnic and national prejudice among children and adolescents. Education for living in an interconnected and...
Do Today's 15-Year-Olds Feel Environmentally Responsible?
OECD
01 Oct 2012
Most 15-year-olds in OECD countries have some understanding of environmental issues and feel that threats to the environment are a serious concern for them and/or for other people in their country.Scientific understanding of the environment is key if...
Do Students Today Read for Pleasure?
OECD
01 Sept 2011
Students who are highly engaged in a wide range of reading activities are more likely than other students to be effective learners and to perform well at school. Research also documents a strong link between reading practices, motivation and...
Do Students Perform Better in Schools with Orderly Classrooms?
OECD
01 Sept 2013
Most students enjoy orderly classrooms for their language-of-instruction lessons. Socio-economically disadvantaged students are less likely to enjoy orderly classrooms than advantaged students. Orderly classrooms – regardless of the school’s overall...
Do Students Have the Drive to Succeed?
OECD
01 Mar 2014
When students believe that investing effort in learning will make a difference, they score significantly higher in mathematics. The fact that large proportions of students in most countries consistently believe that student achievement is mainly a...
Do Parents' Occupations Have an Impact on Student Performance?
OECD
01 Feb 2014
Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. The strength of the relationship...