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How is depression related to education?
(OECD, 2018-03)People with higher educational attainment are less likely to report depression than those with lower education attainment. Women are more likely to report having depression than men at all levels of educational attainment, ... -
How is equity in resource allocation related to student performance?
(OECD, 2014-10)How educational resources are allocated is just as important as the amount of resources available. High-performing countries and economies tend to allocate resources more equitably across socio-economically advantaged and ... -
How is participation in sports related to students’ performance and well-being?
(OECD, 2018-07)Sports play a vital role in students’ life. Playing sports on a regular basis can reduce the risks of obesity, anxiety disorders, low self-esteem and bullying among adolescents, and it can help them live a more active and ... -
How is students’ motivation related to their performance and anxiety?
(OECD, 2019-01)In almost all participating education systems, 15-year-old students who report greater motivation to achieve also perform better in the PISA assessment. Students in socio-economically advantaged environments perform better ... -
How Much Can We Generalize from Impact Evaluations?
(Stanford University, 2016-05)Impact evaluations aim to predict the future, but they are rooted in particular contexts and to what extent they generalize is an open and important question. The author exploit a new data set of results on a wide variety ... -
How Much Do Programmes Pay? Transfer size in selected national cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2015)Over the past decade, more than a dozen government-run cash transfer programmes have been launched in sub-Saharan Africa, and there is growing evidence of their ability to improve a range of development outcomes. However, ... -
How much do tertiary students pay and what public support do they receive?
(OECD, 2016-05)OECD countries differ significantly in the way spending on tertiary education is shared between public and private sources of funding, and in the financial support they provide to students. Countries with high tuition fees ... -
How much of a problem is bullying at school?
(OECD, 2017-07)For the first time, the 2015 round of PISA collected data on students’ exposure to bullying. These data show that bullying is widespread. On average across OECD countries, around 11% of students reported that they are ... -
How Much Time Do Teachers Spend on Teaching and Non-teaching Activities?
(OECD, 2015-02)The annual number of teaching hours of teachers differs greatly from one country to another and tends to decrease as the level of education increases. On average across countries, teachers spend half of their working time ... -
How Often Is the Misfit of Item Response Theory Models Practically Significant?
(National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014)Standard 3.9 of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (1999) demands evidence of model fit when item response theory (IRT) models are employed to data from tests. Hambleton and Han (2005) and Sinharay ... -
How openness impacts on higher education
(UNESCO, 2014)The concept of openness is usually discussed in relation to technological developments that facilitated its emergence (Peter and Deimann, 2013), in particular, the rise of digital technology and the Internet, which are ... -
How Shanghai does it : insights and lessons from the highest-ranking education system in the world
(World Bank, 2016)This report, how Shanghai does it: insights and lessons from the highest-ranking education system in the world, presents an in-depth examination of how students in Shanghai achieved the highest scores in the areas of ... -
How teachers and schools innovate : New measures in TALIS 2018
(OECD, 2019-04)TALIS aims to measure two points of interest: the degree to which innovation is implemented in learning environments, and the conditions for innovation in schools and classrooms. The former is examined through teachers’ ... -
How teachers teach and students learn : successful strategies for School
(OECD, 2016-03)This paper examines how particular teaching and learning strategies are related to student performance on specific PISA test questions, particularly mathematics questions. The report compares teacher-directed instruction ... -
How Technology Changes Demands for Human Skills
(OECD, 2010-03)This paper places the competencies to be measured by the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in the context of the technological developments which are reshaping the nature of ... -
How Universities Promote Economic Growth
(World Bank, 2007)This study was initiated in 1999 with the objective of identifying the most promising path to development in light of emerging global and regional changes. The purpose of this volume is to examine the role of universities ... -
How “green” are today’s 15-year-olds?
(OECD, 2012-04)Across OECD countries, around one in five students is consistently able to identify, explain and apply scientific concepts related to a variety of environmental topics. In Canada, Finland and Japan, over a third of ... -
La huallata y el zorro. Cuento No. 22
(PEMinisterio de Educación, 2012)Cuento para niños y niñas de 3, 4 y 5 años sobre el entorno del niño (versión en castellano), cuya finalidad es brindarles la oportunidad de acercarse al mundo escrito y leer con diversos propósitos (informarse, disfrutar, ... -
Huancavelica : ¿cómo vamos en educación?
(MINEDU, 2015)Reúne información estadística relevante de la situación actual de la educación de la región Huancavelica, ha sido hecho para servir como una guía informativa amigable de todos aquellos actores de la región que puedan influir ... -
Huancavelica : ¿cómo vamos en educación? 2016
(Ministerio de Educación, 2017)Indicadores de insumos de Huancavelica: Financiamiento: En el 2015, la tasa media de crecimiento anual del gasto público educativo por alumno tuvo un crecimiento sostenido, llegando a ser 6.4 veces mayor que en el 2005 en ...