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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
PISA in Focus is a series of monthly education policy-oriented notes designed to describe a PISA topic in a concise, user-friendly way.
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- ISSN: 22260919 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/22260919