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Does it matter how much time students spend on line outside of school?
(OECD, 2016-01)In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common online activities among 15-year-olds were browsing the Internet for fun and participating in social ... -
Does it matter which school a student attends?
(OECD, 2013-04)Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. Across OECD countries, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in ... -
Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect Against Sexual Violence? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2017)Sexual violence against women and girls is widespread globally. In their lifetime, one in three women will experience intimate partner physical or sexual violence and 7 per cent will experience forced sex by someone other ... -
Does Management Matter in Schools
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014-11)The paper collects data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated ... -
Does math make you anxious?
(OECD, 2015-02)Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards ... -
Does money buy strong performance in PISA?
(OECD, 2012-02)Greater national wealth or higher expenditure on education does not guarantee better student performance. Among high-income economies, the amount spent on education is less important than how those resources are used. ... -
Does non-participation in preschool affect children’s reading achievement? International evidence from propensity score analyses
(SpringerOpen, 2016)While expectations are high for early childhood education to support students’ reading literacy, research findings are inconclusive. The purpose of the study is to estimate the effect of preschool non-participation on ... -
Does performance-based pay improve teaching?
(OECD, 2012-05)PISA has long established that high-performing education systems tend to pay their teachers more. They also often prioritise the quality of teaching over other choices, including class size. But in the current budgetary ... -
Does Poverty Research in Russia Follow the Scientific Method?
(World Bank, 2008-02)This paper presents the first critical review of literature on poverty published in Russia between 1992 and 2006. Using a dataset of about 250 publications in Russian scientific journals, the authors assess whether the ... -
Does pre-primary education reach those who need it most?
(OECD, 2014-06)Attendance in pre-primary education is associated with better student performance later on. Fifteen-year-old students in 2012 were more likely than 15-year-olds in 2003 to have attended at least one year of pre-primary ... -
Does Reading Proficiency at Age 15 Affect Pathways through Learning and Work
(OECD, 2010-02)Over the last decade, Canada has experienced a substantial increase in the number of individuals participating in post-secondary education (PSE). This trend emphasizes the importance of understanding the pathways leading ... -
Does Rewarding Pedagogical Excellence Keep Teachers in the Classroom? : Evidence from a Voluntary Award Program
(BID, 2018-06)This paper analyzes the effects on teacher retention and between-school mobility of a program that rewards excellence in pedagogical practice in Chile. Teachers apply voluntarily for the award and those who succeed on a ... -
Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru
(BID, 2014-01)Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because ... -
Does the quality of learning outcomes fall when education expands to include more disadvantaged students?
(OECD, 2017-08)Globally, enrolment in secondary education has expanded dramatically over the past decades. This expansion is also reflected in PISA data, particularly for low- and middle-income countries. Between 2003 and 2015, Indonesia ... -
Does upper secondary vocational education and training improve the prospects of young adults?
(OCDE, 2013-11)Estimates show that in OECD countries, almost half of today’s population (47%) will graduate from an upper secondary VET programme over their lifetime. Countries can benefit from investment in VET programmes by partnering ... -
Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement?
(Young Lives, 2017)Inequity is an important issue for many international initiatives, including the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One aspect of inequity that has received little attention is the impact of disability on ... -
Does Watching Help? In Search of the Theory of Change for Education Monitoring
(UNESCO, 2015-12)Following the publication of the 2015 Global Education for All Monitoring Report, this paper examines the question of how watching and reporting on these global goals might prompt changes in education. What is the function ... -
Dominancia cerebral asociada al desempeño laboral de los docentes de una UGEL de Lima
(Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2009)Los avances en las neurociencias de la educación ponen de relieve la gran importancia que tiene desarrollar el cerebro del hombre para lograr su completo funcionamiento y hacerlo altamente productivo. Este desarrollo del ... -
Domingo no parque : notas sobre a experiência de ser jovem na contemporaneidade
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2012)Esta tese tem como interesse central analisar as práticas de transgressão e as performances dos jovens aos domingos num dos mais frequentados parques de Porto Alegre- RS - Brasil, tomando-as como pistas para compreender a ... -
Donas de si? : a educação de corpos grávidos no contexto da Pais & Filhos
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2006)A presente pesquisa inscreve-se nos campos dos Estudos de Gênero e dos Estudos Culturais que se aproximam das teorizações pós-estruturalistas, em especial, das de Michel Foucault. Com esse referencial teórico-metodológico, ...