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No. 117 | 05 May 2015 |
The Efficiency of Secondary Schools in an International Perspective
As governments around the world struggle with doing more with less, efficiency analysis climbs to the top of the policy agenda. This paper derives efficiency measures for more than 8,600 schools in 30 countries, using PISA 2012 data and a bootstrap... |
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No. 116 | 21 Apr 2015 |
Supporting teachers and schools to promote positive student behaviour in England and Ontario (Canada)
This paper presents the findings based on case studies of the educational systems of England and of the Canadian province of Ontario, as part of a research project funded by the Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship Programme.1 This research project aims to... |
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No. 115 | 30 Mar 2015 |
Examining school context and its influence on teachers
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has linked data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) of teachers of 15-year-old students with school-level data from the Programme for International Student... |
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No. 114 | 27 Feb 2015 |
Skills and Wage Inequality
This paper exploits data from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to shed light on the link between measured cognitive skills (proficiency), (formal) educational attainment and labour market outcomes. After presenting descriptive statistics on the... |
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No. 113 | 09 Feb 2015 |
Reforming Education Governance Through Local Capacity-building
This report is an assessment of the programme “Lernen vor Ort” [LvO – “Learning Locally”] initiated by the German federal government in order to support the development of local governance structures in education. LvO ran between 2009 and 2014 in... |
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No. 112 | 30 Jan 2015 |
Student Behaviour and Use of Class Time in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Teachers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico report having high percentages of students with behavioural problems in their classes. Especially in Brazil, teachers report spending large amounts of time keeping order in the classroom. Besides potentially... |
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No. 111 | 01 Dec 2014 |
Implementation of a New School Supervision System in Poland
This case study explores the strategies, processes and outcomes of an education reform in Poland which was introduced in 2009 and substantively changed the school inspection system. Its analysis looks in particular at the co-operation between the... |
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No. 110 | 25 Nov 2014 |
Fostering and Measuring Skills
IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills — personality traits, goals, character and motivations that are valued in the labour market, in school and elsewhere. For many outcomes, their predictive power rivals or exceeds that... |
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No. 109 | 17 Nov 2014 |
Steering from the Centre: New Modes of Governance in Multi-level Education Systems
The governance of complex, decentralised, multi-level education systems poses two fundamental questions for both policy- and research discussions: What are innovative contemporary governance strategies for the central level in education systems? How... |
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No. 108 | 19 Nov 2014 |
Trust: What it is and Why it Matters for Governance and Education
Trust is indispensable for social and economic relations; it is the glue that holds organisations together and appears to work somehow mysteriously. Overall, trust is a ubiquitous ingredient in policymaking and implementation across many governance... |
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No. 107 | 19 Nov 2014 |
Report on Social Desirability, Midpoint and Extreme Responding in TALIS 2013
This paper investigated the effects of response styles in cross-cultural contexts. The authors used data on social desirability, extreme and midpoint responding, and the scale scores of 17 constructs related to the teaching profession, which were... |
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No. 106 | 03 Nov 2014 |
School Size Policies
Recent demographic, economic and political trends have placed the issue of school size at the heart of school effectiveness and efficiency discussions. The subject of school size is particularly salient in remote and rural areas where the viability... |
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No. 105 | 17 Oct 2014 |
How Closely is the Distribution of Skills Related to Countries' Overall Level of Social Inequality and Economic Prosperity?
A country’s level of human capital – the knowledge and skills in the population – has a strong bearing on its economic potential for growth and prosperity. On the other hand, its level of social inequality might prevent prosperity to be shared in... |
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No. 104 | 23 Jul 2014 |
Shifting Responsibilities - 20 Years of Education Devolution in Sweden
This case study examines the consequences of important education decentralisation reforms that took place in Sweden in the early 1990s. The sudden shift away from a traditionally centralised education system towards a decentralised one meant that... |
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No. 103 | 17 Jun 2014 |
Evaluating Measurement Invariance of TALIS 2013 Complex Scales
This paper evaluates measurement invariance of complex scales from a social survey using both a continuous approach and a categorical approach to help inform future decisions in choosing the most appropriate methods to perform the validation of... |
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No. 102 | 27 May 2014 |
Comparison of PIAAC and PISA Frameworks for Numeracy and Mathematical Literacy
This paper describes key aspects of the frameworks for the assessment of adult numeracy and mathematical literacy in PIAAC and PISA, which are OECD two flagship programs for international comparative assessment of competencies. The paper examines... |
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No. 101 | 17 Dec 2013 |
Returns to Skills Around the World
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human... |
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No. 100 | 16 Jan 2014 |
Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education
Higher education plays an important role in providing people with skills for innovation, but a number of important questions remain as to what kind of higher education teaching can be conducive to the strengthening of skills for innovation. This... |
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No. 99 | 18 Dec 2013 |
Learning Standards, Teaching Standards and Standards for School Principals
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in... |
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No. 98 | 13 Dec 2013 |
Coping with Very Weak Primary Schools: Towards Smart Interventions in Dutch Education Policy
This case study looks at the effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at reducing the number of underperforming primary schools in a system with a long tradition of school autonomy. It reviews relevant Dutch policy developments in education since... |
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The Efficiency of Secondary Schools in an International Perspective
Tommaso Agasisti and Pablo Zoido
05 May 2015
As governments around the world struggle with doing more with less, efficiency analysis climbs to the top of the policy agenda. This paper derives efficiency measures for more than 8,600 schools in 30 countries, using PISA 2012 data and a bootstrap...
Supporting teachers and schools to promote positive student behaviour in England and Ontario (Canada)
Gabriela Moriconi and Julie Bélanger
21 Apr 2015
This paper presents the findings based on case studies of the educational systems of England and of the Canadian province of Ontario, as part of a research project funded by the Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship Programme.1 This research project aims to...
Examining school context and its influence on teachers
Bruce Austin, Olusola O. Adesope, Brian F. French, Chad Gotch, Julie Bélanger and Katarzyna Kubacka
30 Mar 2015
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has linked data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) of teachers of 15-year-old students with school-level data from the Programme for International Student...
Skills and Wage Inequality
Marco Paccagnella
27 Feb 2015
This paper exploits data from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to shed light on the link between measured cognitive skills (proficiency), (formal) educational attainment and labour market outcomes. After presenting descriptive statistics on the...
Reforming Education Governance Through Local Capacity-building
Marius R. Busemeyer and Janis Vossiek
09 Feb 2015
This report is an assessment of the programme “Lernen vor Ort” [LvO – “Learning Locally”] initiated by the German federal government in order to support the development of local governance structures in education. LvO ran between 2009 and 2014 in...
Student Behaviour and Use of Class Time in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Gabriela Moriconi and Julie Bélanger
30 Jan 2015
Teachers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico report having high percentages of students with behavioural problems in their classes. Especially in Brazil, teachers report spending large amounts of time keeping order in the classroom. Besides potentially...
Implementation of a New School Supervision System in Poland
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Bartłomiej Walczak and Marcin Jewdokimow
01 Dec 2014
This case study explores the strategies, processes and outcomes of an education reform in Poland which was introduced in 2009 and substantively changed the school inspection system. Its analysis looks in particular at the co-operation between the...
Fostering and Measuring Skills
Tim Kautz, James J. Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel and Lex Borghans
25 Nov 2014
IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills — personality traits, goals, character and motivations that are valued in the labour market, in school and elsewhere. For many outcomes, their predictive power rivals or exceeds that...
Steering from the Centre: New Modes of Governance in Multi-level Education Systems
Harald Wilkoszewski and Eli Sundby
17 Nov 2014
The governance of complex, decentralised, multi-level education systems poses two fundamental questions for both policy- and research discussions: What are innovative contemporary governance strategies for the central level in education systems? How...
Trust: What it is and Why it Matters for Governance and Education
Lucie Cerna
19 Nov 2014
Trust is indispensable for social and economic relations; it is the glue that holds organisations together and appears to work somehow mysteriously. Overall, trust is a ubiquitous ingredient in policymaking and implementation across many governance...
Report on Social Desirability, Midpoint and Extreme Responding in TALIS 2013
Fons J. R. Van de Vijver and Jia He
19 Nov 2014
This paper investigated the effects of response styles in cross-cultural contexts. The authors used data on social desirability, extreme and midpoint responding, and the scale scores of 17 constructs related to the teaching profession, which were...
School Size Policies
Macarena Ares Abalde
03 Nov 2014
Recent demographic, economic and political trends have placed the issue of school size at the heart of school effectiveness and efficiency discussions. The subject of school size is particularly salient in remote and rural areas where the viability...
How Closely is the Distribution of Skills Related to Countries' Overall Level of Social Inequality and Economic Prosperity?
Dirk Van Damme
17 Oct 2014
A country’s level of human capital – the knowledge and skills in the population – has a strong bearing on its economic potential for growth and prosperity. On the other hand, its level of social inequality might prevent prosperity to be shared in...
Shifting Responsibilities - 20 Years of Education Devolution in Sweden
Patrick Blanchenay, Tracey Burns and Florian Köster
23 Jul 2014
This case study examines the consequences of important education decentralisation reforms that took place in Sweden in the early 1990s. The sudden shift away from a traditionally centralised education system towards a decentralised one meant that...
Evaluating Measurement Invariance of TALIS 2013 Complex Scales
Deana Desa
17 Jun 2014
This paper evaluates measurement invariance of complex scales from a social survey using both a continuous approach and a categorical approach to help inform future decisions in choosing the most appropriate methods to perform the validation of...
Comparison of PIAAC and PISA Frameworks for Numeracy and Mathematical Literacy
Iddo Gal and Dave Tout
27 May 2014
This paper describes key aspects of the frameworks for the assessment of adult numeracy and mathematical literacy in PIAAC and PISA, which are OECD two flagship programs for international comparative assessment of competencies. The paper examines...
Returns to Skills Around the World
Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold and Ludger Woessmann
17 Dec 2013
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human...
Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education
Sabine Hoidn and Kiira Kärkkäinen
16 Jan 2014
Higher education plays an important role in providing people with skills for innovation, but a number of important questions remain as to what kind of higher education teaching can be conducive to the strengthening of skills for innovation. This...
Learning Standards, Teaching Standards and Standards for School Principals
Centre of Study for Policies and Practices in Education (CEPPE), Chile
18 Dec 2013
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in...
Coping with Very Weak Primary Schools: Towards Smart Interventions in Dutch Education Policy
Mark van Twist, Martijn van der Steen, Marieke Kleiboer, Jorren Scherpenisse and Henno Theisens
13 Dec 2013
This case study looks at the effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at reducing the number of underperforming primary schools in a system with a long tradition of school autonomy. It reviews relevant Dutch policy developments in education since...