student Education Indicators in Focus 14 - How is international student mobility shaping up? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:34:00 GMT Between 2000 and 2011, the number of international students has more than doubled. Today, almost 4.5 million tertiary students are enrolled outside their country of citizenship. Full Article
student Students – the migrants everyone wants By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:03:00 GMT International students are one of the fastest growing parts of the global education system. In just 20 years their numbers have more than doubled, and there are now over 4 million young people currently studying abroad to get their degree Full Article
student PISA in Focus N°30: Could learning strategies reduce the performance gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:03:00 GMT Students who know how to summarise information tend to perform better in reading. If disadvantaged students used effective learning strategies to the same extent as students from more advantaged backgrounds do, the performance gap between the two groups would be almost 20% narrower. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 32 - Do students perform better in schools with orderly classrooms? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:27:00 GMT Most students enjoy orderly classrooms for their language-of-instruction lessons. Socio-economically disadvantaged students are less likely to enjoy orderly classrooms than advantaged students. Orderly classrooms – regardless of the school’s overall socio-economic profile – are related to better performance. Full Article
student How are university students changing? | Education Indicators in Focus No. 15 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:00:00 GMT This Education Indicators in Focus No. 15 sets out the changing needs of a more diverse generation of university students. Full Article
student Launch of the OECD PISA financial literacy assessment of students By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:08:00 GMT The results of the first international assessment of 15-year-old students’ financial literacy competencies were presented in Paris on 9 July 2014. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 44 - How is equity in resource allocation related to student performance? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:11:00 GMT How educational resources are allocated is just as important as the amount of resources available. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 45 - Do countries with high mean performance in PISA maintain their lead as students age? By www.keepeek.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:45:00 GMT Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high standards internationally tend to be the same countries where these young adults tend to perform well at the age of 26 to 28. Full Article
student Teaching in Focus No. 9 - Improving School Climate and Students' Opportunities to Learn By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:25:00 GMT Almost one in three teachers across countries participating in the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) reports having more than 10% of potentially disruptive students with behaviour problems in their classes. Teachers with more than one in ten students with behaviour problems spend almost twice as much time keeping order in the classroom than their peers with less than 10% of such students in their class. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 50: Do teacher-student relations affect students' well-being at school? By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:16:00 GMT Children spend about a third of their waking hours in school during most weeks in the year. Thus, schools have a significant impact on children’s quality of life – including their relationships with peers and adults, and their dispositions towards learning and life more generally. Full Article
student Easing the learning journey for immigrant students (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:48:00 GMT Between 2003 and 2012, the percentage of students who were raised in immigrant families grew by around 3 percentage points across OECD countries. At the same time, as this month’s PISA in Focus notes, migration policies in some countries became increasingly selective while education outcomes in many countries of origin improved considerably. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 53 - Can the performance gap between immigrant and non-immigrant students be closed? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:50:00 GMT The share of students with an immigrant background increased between 2003 and 2012, both in traditional and new destination countries. The performance difference in mathematics between immigrant and non-immigrant students decreased, on average, between 2003 and 2012. Full Article
student A picture of working students in OECD countries By oecdskillsandwork.wordpress.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:33:00 GMT The combination of work and study has been hailed as crucial to ensure that youth develop the skills required on the labour market so that transitions from school to work are shorter and smoother. As a result, many governments encourage learning on the job, particularly when it comes as part of certified programmes such as vocational education and training pathways (VET) or apprenticeships. Full Article
student Students, computers and learning: Where’s the connection? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:51:00 GMT Totally wired. That’s our image of most 15-year-olds and the world they inhabit. But a new, ground-breaking report on students’ digital skills and the learning environments designed to develop those skills, paints a very different picture. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 56 - How confident are students in their ability to solve mathematics problems? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:35:00 GMT On average across OECD countries, students’ belief that they can solve mathematics problems (mathematics self-efficacy) is associated with a difference of 49 score points in mathematics – the equivalent of one year of school. Full Article
student Helping immigrant students to succeed at school – and beyond By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:00:00 GMT This document reveals some of the difficulties immigrant students encounter – and some of the contributions they offer – while settling into their new communities and new schools. It also presents some of the policies governments can implement to help immigrant students integrate into their host societies. Full Article
student What students don’t want to be when they grow up (OECD Education&Skills Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:35:00 GMT Who wants to be a teacher? As this month’s PISA in Focus shows, in many countries the teaching profession is having a hard time making itself an attractive career choice – particularly among boys and among the highest-performing students. Full Article
student Backpacks and belonging: What school can mean to immigrant students (OECD Education&Skills Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:42:00 GMT How school systems respond to immigration has an enormous impact on the economic and social well-being of all members of the communities they serve, whether they have an immigrant background or not. Full Article
student Archived webinar December 17 2015 - Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration presented by Presented by Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD By youtu.be Published On :: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:31:00 GMT Archived webinar December 17 2015 - Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration presented by Presented by Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 59 - Does it matter how much time students spend on line outside of school? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:45:00 GMT In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common online activities among 15-year-olds were browsing the Internet for fun and participating in social networks, with over 70% of students doing one of these every day or almost every day. Full Article
student Can students be overconnected? (OECD Education&Skills Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:47:00 GMT Most 15-year-olds in OECD countries spend at least some time each day wandering through cyberspace as part of their media diet. Full Article
student Archived webinar - Low-performing Students: Why they Fall Behind and How to Help them Succeed (February 10, 2016) with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD, and Daniel Salinas, Analyst, OECD. By www.youtube.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:58:00 GMT Archived webinar - Low-performing Students: Why they Fall Behind and How to Help them Succeed (February 10, 2016) with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD, and Daniel Salinas, Analyst, OECD. Full Article
student Helping the weakest students essential for society and the economy, says OECD By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:22:00 GMT Most countries have made little progress helping their weakest students improve their performance in reading, mathematics and science over the past decade. This means too many young people are still leaving school without the basic skills needed in today’s society and workplace, hurting their futures and long-term economic growth, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
student Are we failing our failing students? (OECD Education&Skills Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:08:00 GMT A new PISA report, Low-Performing Students: Why They Fall Behind and How to Help Them Succeed, offers an in-depth analysis of low performance at school and recommends ways to tackle the problem. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 60: Who are the low-performing students? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:13:00 GMT No country or economy participating in PISA 2012 can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved basic proficiency skills in mathematics, reading and science. Some 28% of students score below the baseline level of proficiency in at least one of those subjects, on average across OECD countries Full Article
student Education Indicators in Focus No. 41 - How much do tertiary students pay and what public support do they receive? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Fri, 13 May 2016 16:05:00 GMT OECD countries differ significantly in the way spending on tertiary education is shared between public and private sources of funding, and in the financial support they provide to students. Full Article
student Who pays for universities: taxpayers or students? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 16:30:00 GMT There are few issues in education that raise as much political and ideological controversy as tuition fees for higher education. Full Article
student Making all students count (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:14:00 GMT Many students who participated in PISA 2012 reported that they have hardly been exposed to fundamental concepts in mathematics, like arithmetic means or linear equations, which form the basis of the numeracy skills that they will need to thrive as adults. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. No 63 - Are disadvantaged students given equal opportunities to learn mathematics? By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:00:00 GMT On average across OECD countries, the 20% of students who are most exposed to pure mathematics tasks (equations) score, on the PISA mathematics test, the equivalent of almost two school years ahead of the 20% of students who are least exposed. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 64 - Are there differences in how advantaged and disadvantaged students use the Internet? By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:35:00 GMT Even when all students, including the most disadvantaged, have easy access to the Internet,a digital divide, based on socio-economic status, still persists in how students use technology. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 65 - Should all students be taught complex mathematics? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:38:00 GMT Exposure to complex mathematics concepts and tasks is related to higher performance in PISA among all students, including socio-economically disadvantaged students. Full Article
student How student attitudes towards the value of education can be shaped by careers education – evidence from the OECD’s PISA study (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:41:00 GMT As governments around the world seek to tackle stubbornly high levels of youth unemployment, new attention has been focused on the relationship between education and employment. Full Article
student Archived webinar - PISA Q&A Webinar - New Data and Insights from PISA on Students' Well Being By youtu.be Published On :: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:00:00 GMT with Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills Full Article
student Who benefits when international students pay higher tuition fees? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:53:00 GMT In 2014, over 3 million students in OECD countries – more than double the amount in 2000 – were studying outside their country of citizenship. Full Article
student Launch: OECD PISA financial literacy assessment of students By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:30:00 GMT 24 May 2017: PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV): Students’ Financial Literacy explores students’ experience with and knowledge about money and provides an overall picture of 15-year-olds’ ability to apply their accumulated knowledge and skills to real-life situations involving financial issues and decisions. Full Article
student Archived webinar - PISA Q&A Webinar - Students' Financial Literacy" with Andreas Schleicher - Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills By youtu.be Published On :: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:17:00 GMT PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV): Students’ Financial Literacy, explores students’ experience with and knowledge about money and provides an overall picture of 15-year-olds’ ability to apply their accumulated knowledge and skills to real-life situations involving financial issues and decisions. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 73 - Do students spend enough time learning? By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:37:00 GMT In some countries and economies, such as Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong (China), Qatar,Thailand, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, students spend at least 54 hours per week learning at and outside of school combined, whereas in others, like Finland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Uruguay, students spend less than 40 hours studying. Full Article
student Improving education outcomes for Indigenous students (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 11:46:00 GMT Indigenous peoples are the first inhabitants of their lands, but are often poorly served by the education systems in their countries. Why? Is it necessary to wait until issues such as poverty or appropriate legal recognition for Indigenous peoples are resolved? Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 75 - Does the quality of learning outcomes fall when education expands to include more disadvantaged students? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:51:00 GMT Globally, enrolment in secondary education has expanded dramatically over the past decades. This expansion is also reflected in PISA data, particularly for low- and middle-income countries. Between 2003 and 2015, Indonesia added more than 1.1 million students, Turkey and Brazil more than 400 000 students, and Mexico more than 300 000 students, to the total population of 15-year-olds eligible to participate in PISA. Full Article
student Which careers do students go for? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:00:00 GMT Career decisions are wrought in complexities. Many students start by looking at their interests, selecting a career in line with their personal affinities or aspirations. Full Article
student Entering the “black box”: Teachers’ and students’ views on classroom practices (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:08:00 GMT What happened in school today?” is a question that many parents across the world ask their children when they get home. Many parents also attend school meetings in order to understand how their child’s learning is developing. Full Article
student Teaching in Focus No. 18: “How do teachers teach? Insights from teachers and students" By dx.doi.org Published On :: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:00:00 GMT Almost all mathematics teachers across participating countries use clear and structured teaching practices, according to both teachers and students. A vast majority of teachers also use student-oriented practices and enhanced learning activities in their classroom. Full Article
student How PISA measures students’ ability to collaborate (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:44:00 GMT Late next month (21 November, to be exact) we’ll be releasing the results PISA’s first-ever assessment of students’ ability to solve problems collaboratively. Why has PISA focused on this particular set of skills? Because in today’s increasingly interconnected world, people are often required to collaborate in order to achieve their objectives, both in the workplace and in their personal lives. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 77: How does PISA measure students’ ability to collaborate? By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:46:00 GMT Solving unfamiliar problems on one’s own is important, but in today’s increasingly interconnected world, people are often required to collaborate in order to achieve their goals. Teamwork has numerous benefits, from a diverse range of opinions to synergies among team members, and assigning tasks to those who are best suited to them. Full Article
student Is the growth of international student mobility coming to a halt? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:50:00 GMT Higher education is one of the most globally integrated systems of the modern world. There still are important barriers to the international recognition of degrees or the transfer of credits, but some of the basic features of higher education enjoy global convergence and collaboration. Full Article
student Are school systems ready to develop students’ social skills? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:57:00 GMT Successes and failures in the classroom will increasingly shape the fortunes of countries. And yet, more of the same education will only produce more of the same strengths and weaknesses. Full Article
student TopClass Podcast Episode 3: What collaborative problem solving can tell us about students' social skills By soundcloud.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:22:00 GMT Do today’s students really know how to work well together? For the first time ever, the Programme for International Student Assessment 2015 (otherwise known as PISA) examined students’ ability to collaborate to solve problems and the necessary social skills involved in that process. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 79: Is too much testing bad for student performance and well-being? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:03:00 GMT Standardised tests help measure student’s progress at school and can inform education policy about existing shortfalls. However, too much testing could lead to much pressure on students and teachers to learn and teach for a test, something that would take the joy out of the learning process. Full Article
student How to prepare students for the complexity of a global society (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:14:00 GMT The world’s growing complexity and diversity present both opportunity and challenge. On the one hand, globalization can bring important new perspectives, innovation, and improved living standards. But on the other, it can also contribute to economic inequality, social division, and conflict. Full Article
student PISA in Focus No. 80 - In which countries and schools do disadvantaged students succeed? By doi.org Published On :: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:38:00 GMT PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest quarter of socio-economic status reach, at best, only the baseline level of proficiency (Level 2) in reading, mathematics or science. Full Article