"International comparisons" refers to the act of analyzing and comparing different countries or regions to understand their similarities, differences, or performance in various aspects such as economy, education, healthcare, or social issues. It involves examining and evaluating data or information to gain insights and learn from different countries to make informed decisions or improvements.
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This includes frameworks specifically designed
for international comparisons of teaching practices and teacher effectiveness, as well as those used for teaching development.
Educators and governments are therefore paying increasing attention to
international comparisons as they seek to develop effective policies to improve the performance of their education systems.
Another strong piece of evidence that raising standards for all results in higher achievement levels from all comes
from international comparisons of student achievement.
Not surprisingly Finnish students across the socio - economic spectrum consistently are among the strongest performers on
international comparison tests.
Two decades of
international comparisons show that the longer American students are in school, the further they fall behind their counterparts in other developed nations.
Those who created these alternative systems were concerned with freedom and religious conviction,
not international comparisons of academic outcomes.
The researchers were not expecting American students to fare well;
previous international comparisons had already shown that American students were behind their international peers.
Educators and governments are paying increasing attention to
international comparisons as they seek to develop effective policies to improve the performance of their education systems.
Finally, Porter et al. take a look
at international comparisons, comparing Common Core math standards to the eighth grade standards for Finland, Japan, and Singapore.
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According to Osgoode professor Joan Gilmour in Patient Safety, Medical Error and Tort Law:
An International Comparison, very few cases go to trial, and only a small number of those are successful.
«When you look over the past five years there's been such a huge shift in profitability from suppliers to retailers, and it was so far out of kilter
with international comparisons, that at some point it had to rebalance,» he said.
The project involved the use of Koppenjan and Klijn's (2004) Actor, Game and Network Analysis, which has proven to be an effective methodology to explore regional governance arrangements in England, allowing for
international comparisons regards the use of the model in network research.
Policymakers seem to have embraced a «slash and burn» technique to education, often taking extreme reactive stances to
international comparison data.
But a detailed study of students» performance on TIMSS as well as on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), another widely
reported international comparison test, by B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., suggests otherwise.
According to the
latest international comparisons published by the Office of National Statistics, the average European worker produces more in four days than a British equivalent does in five.
U.S. students may be holding their own in math and science at the elementary level, but
international comparisons indicate they are falling behind most of their global peers as they progress through the system.
The most intriguing aspect of the study of the relationship between the proportion of pupils in nongovernment schools and achievement on the
PISA international comparisons («School Choice International,» research, Winter 2009) is its use of data from 1900 to identify countries with a history of competitive education systems.
Most international comparisons find that Canada's combined federal and provincial debt is low to middling compared to other developed countries, so we're not as badly off as some.
The chair of the ARC, Max Brennan, has written that the engineers» case is based on «a number of unsubstantiated assertions and
flawed international comparisons».
Lund University is highly ranked in
many international comparisons of higher education and has been consistently placed in the world's top 100 universities in recent years (among the top 0.4 % of the world's universities).
International comparisons aside, Barnard deserves to be grouped alongside the most exciting and elite British filmmakers who are putting the UK at the forefront of world cinema in terms of vision, if not box office: Andrea Arnold, Lynne Ramsay, Peter Strickland, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen, Richard Ayoade, Shane Meadows and Joanna Hogg.
«Wisconsin High Schools Learn from New PISA Test:
International comparison drives efforts to improve» by Alan J. Borsuk will be released on Thursday, June 25 at 12:01 AM and will appear in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next.
The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Director for School Standards and attended by the team leader of the DCSF's Schools Research Team, the
DCSF International Comparisons Programme Manager, the Director of Assessment and Statistics at the National Foundation for Education Research, (their main external contractor), directors of the Training and Development Agency for Schools, and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
The preliminary data, from the
first international comparison of precollegiate students» prose - writing ability, differed sharply from results of recent U.S. assessments.