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    • Does money buy strong performance in PISA? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (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. ...
    • How does class size vary around the world? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2012-11)
      In OECD countries, the average class size at the lower secondary level is 23 students, but there are significant differences between countries, ranging from over 32 in Japan and Korea to 19 or below in Estonia, Iceland, ...
    • Illuminating the Effects of Dynamic Lighting on Student Learning 

      Mott, Michael S.; Robinson, Daniel H.; Walden, Ashley; Burnette, Jodie; Rutherford, Angela S. (SAGE, 2012)
      Light is universally understood as essential to the human condition. Yet light quality varies substantially in nature and in controlled environments leading to questions of which artificial light characteristics facilitate ...
    • In which countries do the most highly qualified and experienced teachers teach in the most difficult schools? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2018-06)
      In 2015, a majority of countries and economies that participated in PISA compensated disadvantaged schools with smaller classes and/or lower student-teacher ratios. However, in more than a third of countries and economies, ...
    • Methods of grouping learners at school 

      Dupriez, Vincent (UNESCO, 2010)
      How should classrooms be formed in a school? What criteria should be used for dividing students up between schools and classes? When is tracking/streaming and ability grouping appropriate in a school system? This book ...
    • El salario del profesorado y el tamaño de la clase : dos indicadores sugerentes para una reforma educativa de calidad 

      Sánchez Lissen, Encarnación (Universidad Complutense. Facultad de Educación, 2018)
      En aras de la calidad, la mayoría de los países en desarrollo se someten, con cierta frecuencia, a evaluaciones de todo o parte de su sistema escolar. Sin perder de vista la realidad de cada país, de cada modelo educativo, ...
    • Small class sizes for improving student achievement in primary and secondary schools: a systematic review 

      Filges, Trine; Sonne-Schmidt, Christoffer Scavenius; Viinholt Nielsen, Bjørn Christian (The Campbell Collaboration, 2018-10)
      Reducing class size is seen as a way of improving student performance. But larger class sizes help control education budgets. The evidence suggests at best a small effect on reading achievement. There is a negative, but ...
    • Stand Against Bullying : An Experimental School Intervention 

      Gutierrez, Italo; Molina, Oswaldo; Ñopo, Hugo (IZA. Institute of Labor Economics, 2018-06)
      Despite the growing evidence on the negative consequences of school bullying, there is no consensus regarding the most effective strategies to fight this problem. The authors study the impact of a randomized intervention ...
    • The Impact of School Infrastructure on Learning : A Synthesis of the Evidence 

      Barrett, Peter; Treves, Alberto; Shmis, Tigran; Ambasz, Diego; Ustinova, Maria (World Bank, 2019)
      The aim of this report is to review current research studies on how school infrastructure affects children’s learning outcomes and to identify key parameters that can inform the design, implementation, and supervision of ...
    • Using Opportunity to Learn and Early Grade Reading Fluency to Measure School Effectiveness in Guatemala 

      USAID. United States Agency International Development (USAID, 2009)
      This study argues that to improve school effectiveness, schools and educators should focus on even more basic elements than those posited by other research. The focus should be on providing a basic opportunity to learn by ...