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Pearson explored the relationship between the use of Sistema COC with learner outcomes like students' achievement in the simulated national assessments. Pearson conducted a study comparing results on the SimENEM, a practice exam, for students in Sistema COC schools with similar students in public and private schools not using Sistema COC. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Test Coaching, National Competency Tests
Gatti, Guido; Lee, Kenneth; Reis, Gustavo Alexandre – Pearson, 2019
Sistema COC is a learning system for Brazilian private school students attending kindergarten through 12th grade. Its mission is to prepare students for assessments administered by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (INEP) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. The most important of these assessments is the Exame Nacional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Test Coaching, National Competency Tests
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Download full textCaprara, Bernardo – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The main goal of this study is to verify the effects of cultural capital on students' performance in an official test applied by the Brazilian government, as part of the National Assessment of Basic Education (Saeb). The data set used is from 2003 and involves 52,434 students. The standard test is applied every two years in the fields of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement
Pereira Amorim, Erica – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The low quality of educational services in the "favelas" (slums) of Rio de Janeiro is well documented (e.g., Abramo, 2003; Alves, Franco & Ribeiro, 2008; Cano, 2012; Cavallieri e Coelho, 2003; Frigotto, 2004; Henriques, 2000; Henrique & Ramos, 2011; Machado, 2002 & 2008; Valladares, 2010). In 2010, the average twenty-five…
Descriptors: Slums, Educational Quality, Illiteracy, Foreign Countries
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico; Moreira, Diana B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the central government to municipalities. Using variation…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Audits (Verification), Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
Botelho, Fernando Balbino – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The first chapter studies the effects of a teacher performance bonus program implemented in Brazil in 2008. The program covered all schools directly managed by the State of Sao Paulo government, and was based on a standardized test run by the state education authority. I use high-school exit exams organized by the federal government (ENEM) to…
Descriptors: Wages, Merit Pay, Females, Standardized Tests
