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Ho, Soi Kei; Gan, Zhengdong – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This comparative study investigated the associations between instructional practices and students' reading performance among 10 top performing regions that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018. A nationally representative sample consisting of 80,016 15-year-old students from 5 Asian regions (B-S-J-Z [China],…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Almashni Abdulla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem that this qualitative descriptive study addressed is that Jordanian fifteen-year-old students performed lower than the mean for all fifteen-year-old students from participating countries on the standardized 2018 OECD PISA assessment tests, which leads to inequality in achievement and low human capital outcomes. The overarching research…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
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Bolstad, Oda Heidi – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This article reports a qualitative inquiry into school leaders' and teachers' rationales for teaching to develop students' "mathematical literacy." The study is rooted in an exploration of the meanings that the school leaders and teachers hold about the term mathematical literacy. Six leaders and three grade 9 mathematics teachers from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Numeracy, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Morgan, Clara; Ibrahim, Ali – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Scholars of the global phenomenon of international student assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS) have paid little attention to the ways in which student users of these material objects are "configured" in nations that are located at the periphery of knowledge production. Our analysis takes the United Arab Emirates as its case study to capture…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Zeng, Yan; Day, Christopher – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This mixed method research explores the contexts, purposes, forms, practices, and effects of school provided collaborative professional development (PD) as experienced by teachers working in primary and secondary schools in England and Shanghai. The research is part of a larger partnership pilot study by the University of Nottingham and Shanghai…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Mostafa, Tarek; Pál, Judit – OECD Publishing, 2018
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student, and school characteristics are related to science teachers' satisfaction in 19 PISA-participating…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Evidence, Teacher Surveys