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Komatsu, Hikaru; Rappleye, Jeremy – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
Founded on several highly influential quantitative studies, the past decade has witnessed the OECD and World Bank increasingly converge on the view that cognitive levels of students and education quality, as proxied by international large-scale assessments (ILSAs), are the primary determinant of national economic growth worldwide. More recent OECD…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Academic Ability, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
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Shi, Wei-Zhao; He, Xiqin; Wang, Yan; Fan, Zeng-Guang; Guo, Liangdong – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
In 2015, PISA and TIMSS are coming up to us together. In this study, the data from PISA and TIMSS are used to investigate that which one is a better indicator of national science and technology (S&T) competitiveness? Number of S & T journal articles (per million people) is used as a measure to represent the national S&T…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina – Education Economics, 2015
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what "could" happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the…
Descriptors: Government Role, Educational Quality, Governance, Correlation