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Pathways to Success How Knowledge and Skills at Age 15 Shape Future Lives in Canada recent views
Presents the findings of Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, which complements OECD's PISA survey and offers significant new policy insights in understanding students’ choices... -
PISA Computer-Based Assessment of Student Skills in Science recent views
This report documents the initial step towards an electronically-delivered Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test pioneered by Denmark, Iceland and Korea. In... -
Quality Time for Students: Learning In and Out of School recent views
At a time when OECD and partner countries are trying to figure out how to reduce burgeoning debt and make the most of shrinking public budgets, spending on education is an... -
Against the Odds Disadvantaged Students Who Succeed in School recent views
Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged background -- resilient students -- are the focus of Against... -
PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do Student Performance in Reading, Mathematics and Science (Volume I) recent views
This first volume of PISA 2009 survey results provides comparable data on 15-year-olds' performance on reading, mathematics and science across 65 countries. The volume opens... -
PISA 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background Equity in Learning Opportunities and Outcomes (Volume II) recent views
Volume II of PISA's 2009 results looks at how successful education systems moderate the impact of social background and immigrant status on student and school performance. The... -
PISA 2009 Results: What Makes a School Successful? Resources, Policies and Practices (Volume IV) recent views
This volume of PISA 2009 results examines how human, financial and material resources, and education policies and practices shape learning outcomes. Following an introduction to... -
PISA 2009 Results: Learning Trends Changes in Student Performance Since 2000 (Volume V) recent views
This volume of PISA 2009 results looks at the progress countries have made in raising student performance and improving equity in the distribution of learning opportunities.... -
PISA 2009 Results: Learning to Learn Student Engagement, Strategies and Practices (Volume III) recent views
Volume III of PISA 2009 results examines 15-year-olds’ motivation, their engagement with reading and their use of effective learning strategies. The book opens with an... -
PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line Digital Technologies and Performance (Volume VI) recent views
This sixth volume of PISA 2009 results explores students’ use of information technologies to learn. For PISA 2009, the framework for reading literacy has been developed to... -
PISA 2009 Technical Report recent views
The PISA 2009 Technical Report describes the methodology underlying the PISA 2009 survey. It examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level... -
Learning beyond Fifteen Ten Years after PISA recent views
This report focuses on the development of reading proficiency during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. The span of time between the ages of 15 and 24 is a... -
Untapped Skills Realising the Potential of Immigrant Students recent views
This report reviews recent trends in international migration, describing the size of current foreign-born populations across countries and analysing factors associated to the... -
Public and Private Schools How Management and Funding Relate to their Socio-economic Profile recent views
In most PISA-participating countries and economies, the average socio-economic background of students who attend privately managed schools is more advantaged than that of those... -
Let's Read Them a Story! The Parent Factor in Education recent views
Most parents know instinctively that spending more time with their children and being actively involved in their education will give their children a good head-start in life.... -
PISA 2009 Technical Report recent views
The PISA 2009 Technical Report describes the methodology underlying the PISA 2009 survey. It examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level... -
PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World: Volume 1: Analysis recent views
PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World presents the results from the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, which focused on... -
PISA 2006: Volume 2: Data recent views
Presents the full data set underlying PISA 2006 Volume 1: Analysis. Includes data on student performance in science, student engagement in science, quality and equity in... -
Foreign Affairs Manual (3 FAM) - 3 FAM 3900 INCENTIVE PAY, section 3910 LANGUAGE INCENTIVE PAY (LIP) recent views
The Foreign Service Act of 1980 mandated a comprehensive revision to the operation of the Department of State and the personnel assigned to the US Foreign Service. As the... -
Foreign Affairs Manual (3 FAM) - 3 FAM 3800 BUREAU OF HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) PROGRAMS, section 3860 LACTATION POLICY recent views
The Foreign Service Act of 1980 mandated a comprehensive revision to the operation of the Department of State and the personnel assigned to the US Foreign Service. As the...