The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland (EDU Working Paper No. 49)

Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, especially in formerly socialist countries. However, the transition to market economies led to restructuring of school systems and a decline in the number of vocational students.

13th OECD Japan Seminar "Pursuing Professional Development and Attaining Programme Management and Leadership Quality in ECEC"

The purpose of this OECD Japan seminar is to enable stakeholders in ECEC such as policy makers, academics, professional bodies, practitioners, parents, media, and journalists at local (sub-national), national, regional and international level to huddle together and canvass the issues.

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.

Related Documents

• Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students: Policies, Practice and Performance - Multilingual Summary English
• Examens de l’OCDE sur la formation des migrants : Combler l’écart pour les élèves immigrés :Politiques, pratiques et performances - Résumé en français

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.

Les compétences bien sûr, mais pas seulement: l'influence des compétences cognitives en lecture sur la participation aux études postsecondaires chez les jeunes Canadiens (EDU Working Paper no. 28)

Ce rapport examine l’influence des compétences acquises à l’âge de 15 ans sur la participation aux études postsecondaires chez les jeunes Canadiens. Ces compétences sont mesurées par les résultats au test PISA obtenus auprès d’un échantillon d’élèves canadiens de 15 ans en 2000.

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.

Related Documents

• OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)
• Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments: First Results from TALIS