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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. 5 | 01 Jun 2011 |
How Do Some Students Overcome Their Socio-Economic Background?
Are socio-economically disadvantaged students condemned to perpetuate an intergenerational cycle of poor academic achievement, poor job prospects and poverty? Not if they attend schools that provide them with more regular classes. Resilient students... |
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No. 4 | 01 May 2011 |
Has Discipline in School Deteriorated?
Classrooms and schools with more disciplinary problems are less conducive to learning, since teachers have to spend more time creating an orderly environment before instruction can begin. Interruptions in the classroom disrupt students’ concentration... |
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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. 2 | 01 Mar 2011 |
Improving Performance: Leading from the Bottom
Since the PISA 2000 and 2009 surveys both focused on reading, one can track in detail how student reading performance has changed over that period. Among the 26 OECD countries with comparable results in both assessments, Chile, Germany, Hungary,... |
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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... |
PISA in Focus
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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...
How Do Some Students Overcome Their Socio-Economic Background?
OECD
01 Jun 2011
Are socio-economically disadvantaged students condemned to perpetuate an intergenerational cycle of poor academic achievement, poor job prospects and poverty? Not if they attend schools that provide them with more regular classes. Resilient students...
Has Discipline in School Deteriorated?
OECD
01 May 2011
Classrooms and schools with more disciplinary problems are less conducive to learning, since teachers have to spend more time creating an orderly environment before instruction can begin. Interruptions in the classroom disrupt students’ concentration...
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...
Improving Performance: Leading from the Bottom
OECD
01 Mar 2011
Since the PISA 2000 and 2009 surveys both focused on reading, one can track in detail how student reading performance has changed over that period. Among the 26 OECD countries with comparable results in both assessments, Chile, Germany, Hungary,...
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...