on May 13, 2015
BBC News Education – The biggest ever global school rankings have been published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom. TES News – UK below Poland and Vietnam in biggest ever international education rankings.
Posted in International Comparisons, News |
on April 14, 2015
BBC News Education – Girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by maths teachers, finds research. The girls were given 6% higher marks than boys for similar work, says the study by the London School of Economics and Paris School of Economics.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons |
on March 9, 2015
BBC News Education – Teachers are more lenient in their marking of girls’ schoolwork, according to an international study. OECD – Early gender gaps drive career choices and employment opportunities.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons |
on January 24, 2015
BBC News Education – Girls do better than boys at school, even in countries where women lack equality with men, a study suggests. The Telegraph – Girls do better than boys at school, despite inequality.
Posted in International Comparisons |
on October 9, 2014
Guardian Education – Institute of Education research shows teaching methods in China and South Korea are not only factor in high grades.
Posted in International Comparisons, News |
on September 30, 2014
BBC News Education – There will be a much wider sample of Chinese pupils taking part in the next round of the international Pisa tests.
Posted in International Comparisons, News |
on June 22, 2014
GOV.UK – The UK is in second place among European countries and sixth overall in a global education league table. South Korea is top, with three other Asian countries and Finland making up the top five, in rankings from education and publishing firm, Pearson.
Posted in International Comparisons, News |
on June 22, 2014
BBC News Education – The maths skills of teenagers in parts of the deep south of the United States are worse than in countries such as Turkey and barely above countries such as Chile and Mexico. An international study of maths ability in the US shows how individual states would have performed if they were […]
Posted in International Comparisons |
on June 22, 2014
The Scotsman – Scotland is in danger of
creating a postcode lottery when it comes to education, with a wide gulf between the highest and lowest-achieving students in schools. A “considerable gap” has also formed between the achievements of school pupils in
Scotland and those in the top-performing countries worldwide, according to a report carried […]
Posted in International Comparisons, National Data |
on May 6, 2014
Guardian Education – Leading academics from 12 countries including UK call for next round of OECD Pisa tests on 15-year-olds to be scrapped.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News |
on April 1, 2014
BBC News Education – England’s teenagers are “significantly above average” in problem-solving skills, according to the results of international tests. After many disappointments in international school tests, these latest global rankings from the OECD put England in 11th place. The Telegraph – OECD international league tables, published today, show that England is ranked 11th in […]
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News, Performance Data, Secondary |
on March 28, 2014
TES News – Sir Ken Robinson criticises Pisa for being ‘too narrow’.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, Performance Data |
on March 5, 2014
TES News – The man behind the influential international league table that placed Shanghai above all other school systems has revealed that his study does not include results of more than a quarter of pupils in the Chinese city.
Posted in International Comparisons, News |
on March 5, 2014
BBC News Education – The most successful education systems combine local autonomy for schools with strong public accountability, the OECD’s education expert has told MPs. Mr Schleicher said the global evidence suggested local flexibility for schools was linked to higher results.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons |
on February 4, 2014
BBC News Education – There is nothing inevitable about the weaker academic performance of poorer pupils, says an analysis of Pisa tests by the OECD’s Andreas Schleicher.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons |
