OECD Reviews of Migrant Education - Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students: Policies, Practice and Performance

Net migration to OECD countries has tripled since 1960. Today, immigrant students comprise 10 to 20% of the student population in many OECD countries. Some countries have long histories of immigration; others have experienced an unprecedented increase in the last decade.

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• Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students: Policies, Practice and Performance - Multilingual Summary English
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PISA 2009 publications

PISA 2009 Assessment Framework - Key Competencies in Reading, Mathematics and Science presents the theory behind the development of the PISA 2009 survey, the results of which will be released in December 2010.

PISA 2009 manuals, sources and methods

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds in schools.

TALIS 2008 Technical Report

TALIS is the first international survey to focus on the working conditions of teachers and the learning environment in schools. It focuses on four main research areas: school leadership; professional development; teacher appraisal and feedback; and teaching practices, beliefs and attitudes.

International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment (EDU Working Paper No. 47)

This report presents the findings of our review of the evidence base on comparative practices of teacher selection and recruitment, specifically on the different mechanisms countries use to assess teacher readiness to take up teaching posts, with particular emphasis on testing or examinations.

Analysis of PISA 2006 Preferred Items Ranking Using the Percent-Correct Method (EDU Working Paper No. 46)

This paper uses an approximate average percent-correct methodology to compare the ranks that would be obtained for PISA 2006 countries if the rankings had been derived from items judged by each country to be of highest priority for inclusion.

Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS 2008) data

Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) data are now available. Data files are available in SPSS, SAS and SAS XPORT, for all countries combined as well as for individual countries.

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• OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)
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PISA - Quality Time for Students: Learning in and out of School

Using PISA data from 2006, this report focuses on how 15-year-old students use learning time, both in and out of school.

The OECD international workshop “Taking stock of progress in overcoming school failure”, Paris, 11 and 12 February 2010

Improving equity, overcoming school failure, and decreasing the number of dropouts from upper secondary are key policy priorities across OECD countries.

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• Overcoming School Failure: Policies that Work

Les Clés de la réussite: Impact des connaissances et compétences à l'âge de 15 ans sur le parcours des jeunes canadiens

Les Clés de la Réussite présente les résultats d'une étude qui a été menée au Canada. Le but de l'étude est le suivi du parcours, sur presque dix ans, de jeunes Canadiens qui ont participé au test du PISA en 2000.