Integrating Formative and Summative Assessment: Progress Toward a Seamless System? (EDU Working Paper No. 58)

A long-held ambition for many educators and assessment experts has been to integrate summative and formative assessments so that data from external assessments used for system monitoring may also be used to shape teaching and learning in classrooms.

Gendered Career Expectations of Students: Perspectives from PISA 2006 (EDU Working Paper No. 57)

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent career plans reported in PISA 2006. Its main focus is on the differences in the status and area of employment expected by girls and boys in high school.

Learning for Jobs

Launched in 2007, this programme of work is designed to help countries to use vocational education and training to meet their labour market needs. It looks in particular at initial programmes of vocational education and training, in vocational schools, colleges and apprenticeships

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This review of vocational education and training (VET) in Texas is part of "Learning for Jobs", the OECD policy study of VET – a programme of analytical work and individual country reviews designed to help countries make their VET systems more responsive to labour market needs.

OECD Educationtoday Crisis Survey 2010 - The Impact of the Economic Recession and Fiscal Crisis on Education in OECD Countries (EDU Working Paper No. 56)

The OECD Directorate for Education surveyed the impact of the economic recession on education for the first time in June 2009. Responses were received from seventeen OECD member countries, the Flemish Community of Belgian and two Canadian provinces.

Learning for Jobs, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training, United States: Texas - Pointers for policy development

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PISA 2009 database

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AHELO Newsletter - December 2010

What is new with AHELO? In this December 2010 issue of the Newsletter: Update on country participation; Strong progress with instrument development; Work starting on the contextual dimension; What the experts involved say about AHELO, Next steps and timeline.

Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for the United States

The US' performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is benchmarked against high performing and fast improving countries/economies participating in PISA