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The Case of Iceland in PISA: Girls' Educational Advantage
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Halldorsson, Almar M.; Olafsson, Ragnar F. – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
Among 41 participating countries in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, the gender difference in favour of females was greatest in Iceland in the three subjects tested: mathematics, science and reading. The aims of this article are to put these findings in national and international context, and report on a number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, National Standards, Validity