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Mathematics Teaching and Learning Strategies in PISA
Mathematics Teaching and Learning Strategies in PISA uses data from the PISA 2003 assessment to examine the relationships between teaching strategies, student learning strategies and mathematics achievement.
What factors influence peer ratings of faculty research performance in the United States?
Peers play a significant role in assessing faculty members’ performance and in determining others’ career outcomes, such as tenure and promotion. However, the literature is fairly silent on how faculty members formulate their impressions of others’...
Tertiary education graduation rates
This table includes data on tertiary graduation rates, tertiary type-A level. The table is part of the key tables collection on education.
Chile’s International Scholarship Programme
This report reviews Chile’s scholarship abroad scheme and provides an overview of best practices for scholarship programmes at the international level. In addition it analyses the design and institutional framework of the Chilean programme and...
The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland
Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for
decades, especially in formerly socialist countries. However, the transition to market economies led to
significant restructuring of school systems and a decline in the number of vocational...
TALIS 2008 Technical Report
This report describes the development of the TALIS instruments and methods used in sampling, data collection, scaling and data analysis phases of the first round of the survey. It also explains the rigorous quality control programme that operated during the survey process.