Sentences with phrase «international educational performance»

First Minister Carwyn Jones has been accused of writing off a generation, after Wales again performed worse than the other UK nations in a study of international educational performance.

The PISA exam, given in 65 countries, is the most frequently cited comparative measure of international educational performance.

Not exact matches

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

This is especially relevant to the UK, where the education secretary Michael Gove has justified some of his controversial reforms by referring to the country's performance on the international educational stage.

My working hypothesis is that differences in educational institutions explain more of the international variation in student performance than differences in the resources nations devote to schooling.

Concerns over our educational system, fueled by our students» poor performance in international comparisons of achievement, have reinvigorated the call for early academic instruction as a remedy for inadequate teaching later on.

However, despite the enthusiasm for both school restructuring and transformational leadership, the findings from international meta - analytic work comparing the impact of various approaches to educational leadership, along with wider developments and concerns over quality teaching and student performance noted in earlier chapters, caused a re-examination of the worth of instructional leadership.

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Search for a school district to see how the educational performance of U.S. students compares to state, national and international peers.

How do Carnoy and Rothstein manage to raise U. S. educational performance to international standards simply by adjusting for the social - class background of its students?

Researchers used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.

It comes as an international study of educational performance, Pisa, showed that Welsh students did worse than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The remarkable growth of several nations from mediocre performance to the top of the list on international assessment results — including Finland, Canada, and Poland — has been widely attributed to their overhauls of their educational systems.

According to them, «the focus on -LSB-...] standardised international comparisons of educational performance in core subjects divert the attention of policymakers and practitioners from competitiveness» (p. 293).

It will take time for Welsh educational reforms to be reflected in an international study of pupils» performance, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has said.

But — always a «but» — in 1991, the public and this panel still held the belief, and clearly pushed it forward, that international comparison data was «the ultimate benchmarks of educational performance.»

OECD analysis finds that about 15 percent of variability in the performance of American students is explained by socio - economic factors; the OECD average is 10 percent.13 Research suggests that if the PISA results of U.S. students are adjusted such that the distribution of low - income students is more similar to other countries with comparable post-industrial economies, both math and reading results would look significantly higher.14 This does not mean the United States should not be concerned about international comparisons of educational achievement, but it suggests that the conclusions drawn from rankings based on national averages are limited and that reality is more nuanced.

A recent international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found no positive evidence of impact of educational technology on student performance.

«Analysis of educational performance across OECD countries has concluded that a higher proportion of academically selective schools is not associated with better performance of a school system overall, according to results in the international PISA tests taken by pupils at age 15 in 2012.»

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests.

The high performance modular facility, currently on track for LEED Gold certification, will serve not only as a hub of sustainability programming in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, but also as a convening spot and resource for local community organizations, visiting diplomats, politicians, and educational leaders on both national and international fronts.

She has been contributing to the development of educational and legislative actions on ethics and corruption prevention as the Executive Director of the Italian Chapter of Transparency International, publishing manuals such as «L'etica aziendale», «Ethics and performance in the Public Administration» and «Ethics and sport», in which it deepens the relationship between social and criminal / administrative responsibility of organizations and their economic results.