How well do South African schools convert grade 8 achievement into matric outcomes? [PDF]
School retention in South Africa and performance in the major school-leaving matric examination are characterised by significant inequalities on the basis of race and socio-economic status.
Dean Janse van Rensburg +3 more
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States [PDF]
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size.
Ludger Woessmann
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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity [PDF]
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests.
Gabriela Schütz +2 more
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International comparative study of learning trajectories based on TIMSS 2019 G4 data on cognitive diagnostic models. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Zhu Z.
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School facilities and student achievements: evidence from the Timss [PDF]
This paper studies the link between school facilities and student achievements in eight countries using data from the TIMSS 2003 database. OLS and propensity score matching is used to control for observable characteristics.
Arnt Ove Hopland
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Learning divides across the Italian regions: Some evidence from national and international surveys [PDF]
Student performance has been tested by various surveys at the international level in recent years, using different aims and methodologies. On the basis of a comparative analysis, this paper aims to describe the differences in performance between Italian ...
Pasqualino Montanaro
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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators [PDF]
Using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2006-PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational achievement for ...
Ponzo, Michela
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Cultural variation in the SES-gender interaction in student achievement. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Eriksson K, Lindvall J.
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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background? [PDF]
Educational integration of children with migration background is an important issue in the social sciences. Few studies exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify institutional ...
Nicole Schneeweis
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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of ...
Asako Ohinata, Jan C van Ours
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