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Direct linkAgasisti, Tommaso; Zoido, Pablo – Educational Researcher, 2018
This paper derives efficiency scores for around 8,500 schools in 30 countries, using Programme for International Student Assessment 2012 data and a nonparametric approach called data envelopment analysis as method. On average, achievement scores of schools can be increased by 27%, holding inputs constant. Efficiency scores vary considerably both…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Download full textYaffe, Yosi; Burg, David – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2018
One of the most prominent comparative international tests in recent years is conducted by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is used to assess students' literacy in Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, and Science. Israel has taken part in these assessments from its inception, and since then it has been gradually…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Klieger, Aviva – Curriculum Journal, 2015
International surveys have served as agents of change for the introduction of reforms in curricula worldwide. The Israeli Ministry of Education set a goal of raising Israel's ranking in international surveys so that Israel will be among the 10 leading countries in the Program for International Student Assessment and Trends in International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Science Curriculum
Thieme, Claudio; Gimenez, Victor; Prior, Diego – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
The present study assesses the performance of 54 participating countries in PISA 2006. It employs efficiency indicators that relate result variables with resource variables used in the production of educational services. Desirable outputs of educational achievement and undesirable outputs of educational inequality are considered jointly as result…
Descriptors: Asians, Equal Education, Efficiency, Foreign Countries
Shi, Wei-Zhao; He, Xiqin; Wang, Yan; Fan, Zeng-Guang; Guo, Liangdong – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
In 2015, PISA and TIMSS are coming up to us together. In this study, the data from PISA and TIMSS are used to investigate that which one is a better indicator of national science and technology (S&T) competitiveness? Number of S & T journal articles (per million people) is used as a measure to represent the national S&T…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Castejón, Alba; Zancajo, Adrián – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article focuses on analysing the effect of educational differentiation policies of OECD educational systems on socioeconomically disadvantaged students, based on data from PISA 2009. The analysis is conducted on the basis of a definition of two subgroups of disadvantaged students: those that achieve high scores, and those obtaining scores…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Individualized Programs
School Principals' Agency as Reflected by Extracurricular Activities in the Israeli Education System
Yemini, Miri; Addi-Raccah, Audrey – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
This study examines the nature and extent of extracurricular activities in the Palestinian Arab, Jewish Religious and Jewish Secular educational sectors (Israeli education system also includes the Ultra-Orthodox sector with its own management, monitoring and governance apparatus.) in Israel, in order to characterise the contextual variables that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Extracurricular Activities, Arabs
Lukaš, Mirko; Samardžic, Darko – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide an objective overview of the impact of teacher salaries on the educational achievements of students. It is often debated about teacher salaries and improvement or jeopardizing their standard, but educational consequences that may ensue as a result of these intentions are rarely addressed. Teacher's role in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Academic Achievement, Teacher Salaries, Foreign Countries
Kilic, Serpil; Cene, Erhan; Demir, Ibrahim – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine learning strategies accounted for mathematics achievement across Turkey and neighboring countries. Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, Israel, Serbia, Romania and Jordan were involved in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2009) study. Since other neighbors of Turkey…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
Biberman-Shalev, Liat; Sabbagh, Clara; Resh, Nura; Kramarski, Bracha – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
Based on a sample of 312 high school teachers who participated in the Israeli PISA assessment of student academic achievement in 2002, the current study examines the mediatory role of their perception of the subject matter (as "open/flexible'" or "closed/hierarchical") in the relation between their disciplinary expertise…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Grading, Secondary School Teachers
Schleicher, Andreas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
International educational benchmarks make disappointing reading for Americans, but they also indicate a way forward. PISA results show strong performance is possible. Whether in Japan, Korea, Finland or Canada, many countries display strong overall performance and show socioeconomic background doesn't determine results. Some countries show that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Benchmarking, Global Approach
Shohamy, Elana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
While much of the work in language testing is concerned with constructing quality tests in order to measure language knowledge in reliable and valid ways, there has been a significant movement in language testing research that examines tests in the context of their use in education and society. This line of research exits from the notion that…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Evaluation Research, Ideology
Resnik, Julia – Critical Studies in Education, 2011
Similar to many other countries, an educational reform anchored in a managerial discourse was proposed in Israel in 2004 by the Dovrat Committee, encouraged by the "inter-state education gap" social problem that economist Dan Ben-David formulated on the basis of international examinations, such as PISA and TIMMS. Through a neo-Weberian…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
