PISA 2012 results in focus: what 15-year-olds know and what they can do with what they know [PDF]
The findings in this paper allow policy makers around the world to gauge the knowledge and skills of students in their own countries in comparison with those in other countries, set policy targets against measurable goals achieved by other education ...
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The quality of the Catalan and Spanish education systems: A perspective from PISA [PDF]
For Catalonia and Spain, public perception is that the PISA reports show that their education systems are underperforming. The goal of this chapter is to quantify how much of the Catalan and Spanish PISA score can be attributed to the education levels of
Ciccone, Antonio, Garcia-Fontes, Walter
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Spectrum of Mesons and Baryons with $b$ Quarks
, 1999 We present highlights of the spectrum of mesons and baryons calculated using NRQCD for heavy quarks and tadpole improved clover action for the light quarks.Comment: 3 pages.
Ali Khan, Davies, Rajan Gupta
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Some remarks on Huisken's monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow
, 2017 We discuss a monotone quantity related to Huisken's monotonicity formula and some technical consequences for mean curvature flow.Comment: in "Singularities in nonlinear evolution phenomena and applications", 157-169, CRM Series, 9, Ed. Sc. Norm.
Magni, Annibale, Mantegazza, Carlo
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Immigrants, schooling and background. Cross-country evidence from PISA 2006 [PDF]
Using data from PISA 2006, we examine the performance of immigrant students in different international educational environments. Our results show smaller immigrant gaps – differences in scores with respect to natives - where educational systems are more ...
Davide Ferrari +3 more
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence [PDF]
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels
Falch, Torberg, Fischer, Justina AV
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Deriving the pomeron from a Euclidean-Minkowskian duality
, 2005 After a brief review, in the first part, of some relevant analyticity properties of the loop-loop scattering amplitudes in gauge theories, when going from Minkowskian to Euclidean theory, in the second part we shall see how they can be related to the ...
Meggiolaro, E.
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Finnish pupils’ success in mathematics: factors that contribute to Finnish pupils’ success in mathematics [PDF]
, 2010 This report focuses on the factors that contribute positively to Finnish pupils’ success in mathematics and considers the implications for policy and practice in England.
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias [PDF]
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy.The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and ...
Michael Fertig, Robert E. Wright
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What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later? [PDF]
The transition from school-to-work has been a burning issue in most countries for the last decades. So far research on this topic has not been conclusive, and it is still not clear whether transition problems are just individual, linked to the type of ...
Bertschy, Kathrin +2 more
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