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Experts on handling longitudinal & multiple-group data contribute various, practical, analytic approaches including SEM,LTA,GLM, and multi-level techniques.Includes helpful tips, applications and examples. Grad students & researchers in social & behavior
Knowledge and Skills for Life presents evidence on student performance in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy, reveals factors that influence the development of these skills at home and at school, and examines what the implications are for policy development.
Globalisation processes are currently having a powerful and far-reaching influence upon all societies worldwide. At the same time, many communities are ever more forcefully acknowledging their distinctive characteristics and celebrating their cultural differences. In this turbulent era, societies that have undergone particularly rapid political, economic and social change have a collective experience from which others have much to learn. The analysis of such ‘societies in transition’, and their efforts to transform educational policy and practice, is one focus for this volume. The collective studies are also concerned with the impact of the processes of globalisation and geopolitical cha...
Following the initial report on the results of the first PISA survey, this report looks more closely at performance in reading.
A revised edition of a popular resource builds on the authors' findings that key problems in teaching methods are causing America to lag behind international academic standards, outlining a program for administrators, instructors, and parents that incorporates solutions based on current research. Reprint.
Mit dem Thema "Nach PISA - Konsequenzen für Schule und Lehrerbildung" hat der Band eine bildungspolitisch zentrale Problemstellung zum Gegenstand. Die Aufsätze widmen sich mit je unterschiedlicher Fragestellung den Ergebnissen der PISA-Studien 2000 und 2003 und ihren Konsequenzen für die Theorie und Praxis schulischen Unterrichts und wissenschaftlicher LehrerInnen-Ausbildung.
Based on the results of PISA 2000, this report looks how the schools that students attend make a difference in performance; the impact of school climate, school policies and school resources on quality and equity and the relationship between the structure of systems and quality and equity.
This report examines several aspects of student engagement at school. The results indicate that the prevalence of disaffected students varies considerably both within and among schools in most countries, and that this variation is not attributable solely to students’ family backgrounds.
The report offers policy makers a fine-grained analysis of which particular learner characteristics are prevalent in different countries. It also identifies differences between the approaches of various groups, including male and female students, and those from more and less advantaged backgrounds.
This report extends the picture of literacy skills th PISA 2000 provides to additional countries that have recently joined the programme: Albania; Argentina; Bulgaria; Chile; Hong Kong-China; Indonesia; Israel; FYR Macedonia; Peru; Romania and Thailand.