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10 Feb 2010
Les compétences bien sûr, mais pas seulement OECD
Ce rapport examine l’influence des compétences acquises à l’âge de 15 ans sur la participation aux études postsecondaires chez les jeunes Canadiens. Ces compétences sont mesurées par les résultats au test PISA obtenus auprès d’un échantillon d’élèves canadiens de 15 ans en 2000. Le rapport tente de répondre aux questions suivantes :
• Quel est...
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07 Jan 2011
Workforce Skills and Innovation Phillip Toner
This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence in the literature on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline, neoclassical Human Capital theory,...
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22
05 Feb 2009
What Works in Migrant Education? Deborah Nusche
Education plays an essential role in preparing the children of immigrants for participation in the labour market and society. Giving these children opportunities to fully develop their potential is vital for future economic growth and social cohesion in OECD countries. But migrant students in...
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22 Nov 2010
Using Student Test Results for Accountability and Improvement Morten Anstorp Rosenkvist
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning using student test results in OECD
countries. Initially the report provides an overview of how student test results are reported in OECD
countries and how stakeholders in these countries use and perceive of the results. The report then...
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9
09 July 2007
Understanding the Regional Contribution of Higher Education Institutions Peter Arbo, Paul Benneworth
The contribution of higher education institutions to regional development is a theme that has attracted
growing attention in recent years. Knowledge institutions are increasingly expected not only to conduct
education and research, but also to play an active role in the economic, social and...
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14 May 2013
Understanding School Building Policy and Practice in Belgium's Flemish Community Geert Leemans, Hannah von Ahlefeld
This paper describes a conceptual framework that can be used to interpret the general policy issues
driving the design, construction, maintenance and evaluation of school buildings in Belgium’s Flemish
Community. Within the context of this framework, eight policy challenges relating to the...
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59
21 Feb 2011
Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected and Desired Learning Outcomes in Economics OECD
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse institutions and countries. The two disciplines...
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30 Sep 2003
The Role of National Qualifications Systems in Promoting Lifelong Learning Friederike Behringer, Mike Coles
The aim of the OECD activity The Role of National Qualifications Systems in Promoting Lifelong
Learning is to investigate how qualifications systems influence the volume, distribution and quality of
lifelong learning. This paper takes forward thinking about the ways in which qualifications...
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71
22 Feb 2012
The Policy Impact of PISA Simon Breakspear
Little research has been done into how the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) affect national educational reform and policy-making. This paper examines the normative impact of PISA by investigating how, and the extent to which , national policy actors use PISA...
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09 June 2011
The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland OECD
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...
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14 Feb 2012
Technical Feasibility of Reporting YITS 2010 Skill Assessment Results on the PISA 2000 Reading Scale Fernando Cartwright
This study examines the feasibility of reporting scores of a test based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 instrument that was administered to a sample of 25-year-old Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) respondents on the PISA scale. Each of these respondents also...
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20 Oct 2009
Teacher Evaluation: Current Practices in OECD Countries and a Literature Review Marlène Isoré
This paper discusses the most relevant issues concerning teacher evaluation in primary and secondary
education by reviewing the recent literature and analysing current practices within the OECD countries.
First, it provides a conceptual framework highlighting key features of teacher evaluation...
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2
20 Dec 2002
Teacher Education and the Teaching Career in an Era of Lifelong Learning John Coolahan
This paper attempts to position the teaching career within the context of the changing policy paradigm of lifelong
learning. The paper locates the emergence of this policy within some of the fundamental social and economic
changes which are re-shaping contemporary society. It emphasises that...
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1
20 Dec 2002
Teacher Demand and Supply Paulo Santiago
This paper provides an extensive review of the most relevant issues involved in the management of teacher demand
and supply at the pre-tertiary level. First, it proposes a conceptual framework for distinguishing among, defining and
relating the different relevant factors. Second, it identifies...
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53
09 Nov 2010
Taking on the Completion Challenge Cecilia S. Lyche
This paper reviews international research in the field of dropout from upper secondary education and training in OECD countries in order to present possible solutions to policymakers faced with the completion challenge. The paper begins by presenting existing definitions of dropout and upper...
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05 Feb 2010
Summary of the June 2009 educationtoday Crisis Survey Kiira Karkkainen
This paper provides initial reflections on the impact of the economic crisis on education across the OECD area by analysing the OECD educationtoday crisis survey responses of June 2009. It first looks at the impact of the crisis on education demand and participation, after which the focus turns...
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20 June 2012
Subsidies and Levies as Policy Instruments to Encourage Employer-Provided Training Normann Müller, Friederike Behringer
This paper provides an overview of the available information concerning selected policy instruments
intended to promote employer-provided training, including the stated rationale and objectives, the target
groups and operational design as well as a at a summary of the evaluative evidence...
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65
11 Oct 2011
Student Standardised Testing Allison Morris
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning student standardised testing in which there are no-stakes for students ("standardised testing") through a literature review and a review of the trends in standardised testing in OECD countries. Unlike standardised tests in which there...
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12 June 2012
Statistical Matching of PISA 2009 and TALIS 2008 Data in Iceland David Kaplan, Alyn Turner
The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) constitute two of the largest ongoing international student and teacher surveys presently underway. Data generated from these surveys offer researchers and policy-makers...
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17 Apr 2013
Sparking Innovation in STEM Education with Technology and Collaboration Kiira Kärkkäinen, Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin
This report highlights innovative technology-supported pedagogic models in science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEM) education, explores what to expect from collaboration in a designed network, and,
thereafter, sketches lessons for promoting educational innovation through...
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11
23 Nov 2007
Skilled Voices? Florian Walter, Sieglinde Rosenberger
This study, part of OECD/CERI's project on Measuring the Social Outcomes of Learning,
investigates the relationship between educational attainment and political participation in Austria. First, a
model based on various theoretical considerations is introduced. This incorporates direct...
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03 May 2012
School Funding Formulas Mihály Fazekas
This study provides a literature review on school funding formulas across OECD countries. It looks at three salient questions from a comparative perspective: i) What kind of school formula funding schemes exist and how are they used, particularly for promoting the needs of socially...
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15 Dec 2009
School Evaluation Violaine Faubert
This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures concerning school evaluation in
primary and secondary education within the OECD countries. First, it provides a typology of the existing
systems of school evaluation across the OECD. It encompasses the diverse criteria and...
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66
31 Jan 2012
School Choice and Equity Pauline Musset
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning school choice schemes, and how they intertwine with equity considerations, through a literature review and analysis of the effects different types of school choice programmes have on equity. In the last 25 years, more than two-thirds of...
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21 Dec 2007
School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Level of Student Achievement Ludger Wöbmann, Elke Lüdemann, Gabriela Schütz, Martin R. West
Accountability, autonomy, and choice play a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries.
This report provides new evidence on whether students perform better in school systems that have such
institutional measures in place. We implement an internationally comparative approach within...
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21 Dec 2007
School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Equity of Student Achievement Gabriela Schütz, Martin R. West, Ludger Wöbmann
School systems aspire to provide equal opportunity for all, irrespective of socio-economic status
(SES). Much of the criticism of recent school reforms that introduce accountability, autonomy, and choice
emphasizes their potentially negative consequences for equity. This report provides new...
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90
29 Mar 2013
Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools Francesco Avvisati, Sara Hennessy, Robert B. Kozma, Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin
The Italian Ministry of Education launched in 2007 a National Plan for Digital Schools (Piano
Nazionale Scuola Digitale) to mainstream Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Italian
classrooms and use technology as a catalyser of innovation in Italian education, hopefully conducing...
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17
19 Jan 2009
Recent Developments in Intellectual Capital Reporting and their Policy Implications W. Richard Frederick
This paper provides a survey of recent developments in the reporting of intangible assets. It finds that rather than the wholesale restructuring of the accounting model that was proposed years ago, the trend has been to address gaps in reporting with new forms of reporting. New forms of...
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86
10 Jan 2013
Progression in Student Creativity in School Bill Lucas, Guy Claxton, Ellen Spencer
Creativity is widely accepted as being an important outcome of schooling. Yet there are many
different views about what it is, how best it can be cultivated in young people and whether or how it should
be assessed. And in many national curricula creativity is only implicitly acknowledged and...
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07 May 2012
Parental Involvement in Selected PISA Countries and Economies Francesca Borgonovi, Guillermo Montt
Studies have highlighted the beneficial effects of parental involvement in children’s educational lives. Few studies, however, analyse parental involvement in a cross-national perspective and few evaluate a wide array of forms of involvement. In 2009, 14 countries and economies implemented the...
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09 June 2006
PISA 2000 Erich Neuwirth
As noted in the OECD's PISA 2000 Technical Report (OECD, 2002), the Austrian sample for the
PISA 2000 assessment did not adequately cover students enrolled in combined school and work-based
vocational programmes as required by the OECD's technical standards for PISA.
The purpose of this working...
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20 Nov 2009
PIAAC Reading Component: A Conceptual Framework John P. Sabatini, Kelly M. Bruce
Governments and other stakeholders have become increasingly interested in assessing the skills
of their adult populations in order to examine how well prepared they are to meet the challenges of the
modern knowledge-based society. The current paper provides a conceptual framework for the...
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20 Nov 2009
PIAAC Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments: A Conceptual Framework PIAAC Expert Group in Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments
Governments and other stakeholders have become increasingly interested in assessing the skills
of their adult populations for the purposes of monitoring how well prepared they are for the challenges of
the new information world. The current paper provides an overview of the conceptual...
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24 Nov 2009
PIAAC Numeracy: A Conceptual Framework PIAAC Numeracy Expert Group
Governments and other stakeholders have become increasingly interested in assessing the skills
of their adult populations in order to monitor how well prepared they are to meet the challenges of the new
information world. The current paper provides an overview of the conceptual framework for...
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20 Nov 2009
PIAAC Literacy: A Conceptual Framework PIAAC Literacy Expert Group
The current paper provides an overview of the conceptual framework for the assessment of numeracy developed for the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
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25 June 2012
Open Educational Resources Jan Hylén, Dirk Van Damme, Fred Mulder, Susan D’Antoni
OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) has worked on Open Educational Resources (OER) in the past, which led to the publication Giving Knowledge for Free – the Emergence of Open Educational Resources (2007). This working paper thus builds on exploratory and forward-looking...
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26 Mar 2007
On the Edge OECD
As higher education has grown and state funding has been constrained, the financial sustainability of
institutions of higher education has become an issue for policy makers and for those who govern and
manage these institutions. The challenge for governments is to ensure that increasingly...
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01 Feb 2011
OECD Educationtoday Crisis Survey 2010 Dirk Van Damme, Kiira Karkkainen
The second OECD educationtoday Crisis Survey was carried out in 2010. Twenty-five OECD member countries completed the questionnaire. The results of the survey relies largely on the informed opinion of education officials regarding various aspects of the impact of the economic recession and...
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19 Feb 2013
Monitoring Adult Learning Policies Anna Borkowsky
The main task of the Working Group on Adult Learning of the INES Labour Market, Economic and Social Outcomes network is the development of indicators on Adult Learning for publication in the annual volume "Education at a Glance" of the OECD. As part of this task, a list of 18 policy...
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16 Dec 2005
Measuring Educational Productivity in Standards-Based Accountability Systems Martin Hampel
For many years the school system in the United States has measured success by the number of dollars spent, computers and textbooks purchased, and programs created. Moreover, the measures of success have not focused on academic achievement. Since 1965, American taxpayers have spent more than...
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21 Oct 2010
Markets in Education Sietske Waslander, Cissy Pater, Maartje van der Weide
In the last three decennia, many governments have introduced market mechanisms in education. They
have done so by enhancing parental choice and encouraging school competition, through policies like
abolishing catchment areas, creating voucher programmes and setting up charter schools. These...
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10 Oct 2012
Looking Beyond the Numbers: Stakeholders and Multiple School Accountability Edith Hooge, Tracey Burns, Harald Wilkoszewski
How to hold autonomous schools and school governing boards accountable for their decisions and
performance has become a particularly pressing question for central governments in many OECD
countries. Increasing complexity in education systems has led to a greater degree of freedom in...
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27 Mar 2013
Learning from International Experiences with Interactive Whiteboards Sara Hennessy, Laura London
This paper describes teacher strategies and experiences with interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and draws on the
published research in this area to understand how a systemic approach to technology-based innovations in
schools can contribute to quality education for all. It explores ways to support...
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15 July 2008
Job-Related Training and Benefits for Individuals Bo Hansson
This paper reviews the literature on job-related training and the effects of these investments for different
groups of individuals. The paper also elaborates on the theories, empirical explanations, and policy
implications that can be drawn from these findings. Employer-provided training is by...
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01 Apr 2010
International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment Andrew J Hobson, Patricia Ashby, Joanna McIntyre, Angi Malderez
This report presents the findings of our review of the evidence base on comparative practices of teacher selection and recruitment, specifically on the different mechanisms countries use to assess teacher readiness to take up teaching posts, with particular emphasis on testing or examinations.1...
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02 Sep 2009
International Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Surveys in the OECD Region William Thorn
Both within and beyond the OECD region, governments and other stakeholders are increasingly interested
in the assessments of the skills of their adult populations in order to monitor how well prepared they are for
the challenges of the knowledge based society. The current paper provides an...
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08 Apr 2011
Integrating Formative and Summative Assessment Janet W. Looney
A long-held ambition for many educators and assessment experts has been to integrate summative and formative assessments so that data from external assessments used for system monitoring may also be used to shape teaching and learning in classrooms. In turn, classroom-based assessments may...
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14 June 2012
Innovative Research-Based Approaches to Learning and Teaching Gesa Sonja Elsa van den Broek
Building on an earlier 2008 summary prepared for OECD by Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter,
this paper by Gesa S. E. van den Broek provides a more extensive discussion of approaches described as
"research based innovation." Fostering Communities of Learning is a constructivist approach in...
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01 July 2010
Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Training Policies in a Comparative Perspective Pauline Musset
To design policies that allow to educate and train teachers, capable of helping students to acquire the competencies needed to evolve in today‘s societies and labour markets is an amazing challenge. In today‘s context, with the undergoing economic and social changes, high-quality schooling is...
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10 Feb 2010
Impact of Proficiency on Early Entrants to the Labour Market Torben Drewes
The primary purpose of the report is to explore the impact of PISA reading scores on the early labour market outcomes of young Canadians of the Youth in Transition Survey. This inquiry is complicated by two facts. First, family and school characteristics that are positively correlated with PISA...
