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Melissa Tham; Shuyan Huo; Andrew Wade – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
The long-term benefits of academically selective schools have not been thoroughly explored in the Australian context. This research draws on data from a longitudinal study of Australian young people (n = 2933) and utilises Nearest-neighbour matching techniques to explore whether individuals who attend academically selective schools have better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction
Froese-Germain, Bernie – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2010
Large-scale assessment regularly takes place in most jurisdictions across Canada, a fact not lost on the Fraser Institute and other right wing think tanks such as AIMS (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies) which use the test results as the primary basis for compiling school rankings at both the elementary and secondary level (see Gutstein,…
Descriptors: Test Results, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Educational Indicators