PISA : the effects of culture and school environment on world ranking / Kaycheng Soh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Su, Qizhen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Programme for International Student Assessment.

Academic achievement--Social aspects.

Academic achievement.

School environment--Social aspects.

School environment.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, 2019.

Summary:

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their education achievement. However, culture and school environment are two critical factors affecting educational achievement that deserve careful consideration and re-interpretation. This book brings light to these conceptual and methodological issues. The 14 articles in this book deal with various aspects of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Progress in international Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), including cultural and social environments, principals' roles and views, achievements in Reading, Science, and Mathematics, and the trustworthiness of international comparisons. The articles use PISA and PIRLS data to present new insights and interpretations of international surveys. These insights will help educators, administrators, and policy-makers understand the working mechanisms of their school systems and the relationships between students' achievement and the culture and school environment they are in. This book is a companion volume to the author's earlier publication - PISA: Issues and Effects in Singapore, East Asia, and the World (World Scientific, 2017). Book jacket.

Contents:

Culture, democracy, and achievement

Social environment for learning in Finland and Singapore

Principals as instructional leaders

Principals' views on teachers and students

PIRLS 2011 reading and the effects of home, school, and classroom

Factors : confirming and surprising findings

Reading achievement, materials, times and purposes

Reading competencies as predictors of science achievement

Reading competencies as predictors of mathematics achievement

Collaborative problem solving in PISA 2015 : highlights and reflections

PISA's new venture in creative thinking

Readability of PISA reading tasks as a predictor of reading performance

Ecological fallacy in predicting reading achievement

Mathematics achievement and interest negatively correlated

Does ranking tell the truth in international academic comparisons?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789813276536

9813276533

OCLC:

1051070943