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PISA 2000: Sample Weight Problems in Austria (Education Working Paper No. 5)

09-Jun-2006

The comparability problems resulting from the inadequate coverage of the PISA target population in the Austrian PISA 2000 assessment and the student weights for analysing its data are described here. See also www.bmbwk.gv.at/pisa

Measuring Educational Productivity in Standards-Based Accountability Systems: Introducing the SES Return on Spending Index (Education Working Paper No. 4)

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16-Dec-2005

For many years the school system in the United States has measured success by the number of dollars spent, computers and textbooks purchased, and programs created. Moreover, the measures of success have ...

Teacher Education and the Teaching Career in an Era of Lifelong Learning (Education Working Paper No. 2)

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20-Dec-2002

This paper attempts to position the teaching career within the context of the changing policy paradigm of lifelong learning. The paper locates the emergence of this policy within some of the fundamental ...

Teacher Demand and Supply: Improving Teaching Quality and Addressing Teacher Shortages - A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework for Future Work (Education Working Paper No. 1)

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20-Dec-2002

This paper provides an extensive review of the most relevant issues involved in the management of teacher demand and supply at the pre-tertiary level. First, it proposes a conceptual framework for distinguishing ...

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