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What do we know about teachers’ selection and professional development in high-performing countries?
(OECD, 2017-03)High-performing countries use various mechanisms to select the best candidates to the teaching profession. In Finland, Hong-Kong (China), Macao (China) and Chinese Taipei, students who wish to enter teacher-training ... -
What Educational Production Functions Really Show : A Positive Theory of Education Spending
(The World Bank, 1997-08-20)The existing empirical work on educational production functions provides powerful insights into a positive theory of the allocation of educational expenditures. An optimizing model of expenditure allocations predicts that ... -
What helps teachers feel valued and satisfied with their jobs?
(OECD, 2014-09)Less than one in three teachers across countries participating in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013 believes that the teaching profession is valued by society. Nevertheless, the great majority of ... -
What is the impact of education programmes on children’s learning and school participation?
(International Initiative for Impact Education, 2016)Most education programmes typically improve either school enrolment and attendance or learning outcomes. They rarely improve both. What works in most contexts Cash transfers had the largest and most consistent positive ... -
What is the impact of the economic crisis on public education spending?
(OECD, 2013-12)The economic crisis has reinforced the value of education. While educational attainment has always had a huge impact on employability, the financial crisis has strengthened this effect even further. On average across OECD ... -
What kind of careers in science do 15-year-old boys and girls expect for themselves?
(OECD, 2017-02)On average across OECD countries, almost one in four students – whether boy or girl – expects to work in an occupation that requires further science training beyond compulsory education. Boys are more than twice as likely ... -
What kinds of careers do boys and girls expect for themselves?
(OECD, 2012-03)On average, girls are 11 percentage points more likely than boys to expect to work as legislators, senior officials, managers and professionals. nly 5% of girls in OECD countries, on average, expect a career in engineering ... -
What Lies Behind Gender Inequality in Education?
(OECD, 2015-03)While PISA reveals large gender differences in reading, in favour of 15-year-old girls, the gap is narrower when digital reading skills are tested. Indeed, the Survey of Adult Skills suggests that there are no significant ... -
What Lies between the Religious and the Secular? : Education beyond the Human
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)The current age is characterised by many as secular, and a source of such a characterisation can be found in the Nietzschean claim that thoughts about there being some ultimate reality have to be jettisoned, and human ... -
What Makes a Good Reader : International Findings from PIRLS 2016
(TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, 2017)Fifty countries from around the world participated in the PIRLS 2016 international assessment of reading comprehension at the fourth grade, and in every country there was a wide range of reading achievement from basic ... -
What Makes a School a Learning Organisation?
(OECD, 2016)What are the characteristics of a school as learning organisation? This paper should be seen as an attempt to work towards a common understanding of the school as a learning organisation concept that is both solidly founded ... -
What makes urban schools different?
(OECD, 2013-05)In most countries and economies, students who attend schools in urban areas tend to perform at higher levels than other students. Socio-economic status explains only part of the performance difference between students who ... -
What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? : An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews
(World Bank, 2015-02)In the past two years alone, at least six systematic reviews or meta-analyses have examined the interventions that improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, these reviews have sometimes reached ... -
What Students Say Versus What They Do Regarding Scientific Inquiry
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)We teach a course for elementary education undergraduates that gives students an opportunity to conduct open-ended scientific inquiry and pursue their own scientific questions in much the sameway that practicing research ... -
What TALIS reveals about teachers across education levels
(OECD, 2014-12)The report New insights from TALIS 2013: Teaching and Learning in Primary and Upper Secondary Education (OECD, 2014) presents an overview of teachers and teaching in primary and upper secondary education for a sample of ... -
What Works in Girl´s Education : evidence for the World´s Best Investment
(Brookings Institution, 2016)This book shows clearly what girls and women themselves have known across generations: the world cannot afford to NOT educate its girls. Girls’ education is the key to our new and better future. The key to increased health, ... -
What Works in Migrant Education? : A Review of Evidence and Policy Options
(OECD, 2009-02)Education plays an essential role in preparing the children of immigrants for participation in the labour market and society. Giving these children opportunities to fully develop their potential is vital for future economic ... -
What works to improve teacher attendance in developing countries? : A systematic review
(EPPI-Centre, 2012-10)Previous studies have found national averages of teacher absenteeism in developing countries that range from 3 percent to 27 percent. However, within countries absenteeism is larger in poorer, more isolated schools, ... -
What's Stalling Learning? Using a Formative Assessment Tool to Address Critical Incidents in Class
(Georgia Southern University. Centers for Teaching & Technology, 2011-01)The article reports on the use of Brookfield’s (1995) formative assessment tool, the “Critical Incident Questionnaire” (CIQ) to help students and teachers identify and discuss key factors affecting learning. It offers ... -
When is competition between schools beneficial?
(OECD, 2014-08)In most school systems, over 50% of 15-year-olds students attend schools that compete with another school to attract students from the same residential area. Across countries and economies, performance is unrelated to ...