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An Expansion of a Global Data Set on Educational Quality : A Focus on Achievement in Developing Countries / Noam Angrist
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Angrist, Noam
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achievement.
- Country Strategy & Performance.
- E-Business.
- Education.
- International.
- PISA.
- Primary Education.
- Quality.
- Secondary Education.
- Social Development.
- Teaching and Learning.
- TIMSS.
- Local Subjects:
- Achievement.
- Country Strategy & Performance.
- E-Business.
- Education.
- International.
- PISA.
- Primary Education.
- Quality.
- Secondary Education.
- Social Development.
- Teaching and Learning.
- TIMSS.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (63 pages)
- Other Title:
- Expansion of a Global Data Set on Educational Quality
- Expansion of a Global Data Set on Educational Quality : A Focus on Achievement in Developing Countries
- An Expansion of a Global Data Set on Educational Quality
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2013
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper assembles a panel data set that measures cognitive achievement for 128 countries around the world from 1965 to 2010 in 5-year intervals. The data set is constructed from international achievement tests, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which have become increasingly available since the late 1990s. These international assessments are linked to regional ones, such as the South and Eastern African Consortium for Monitoring of Educational Quality, the Programme d'Analyse des Systemes Educatifs de la Confemen, and the Laboratorio Latinoamericano de Evaluacion de la Calidad de la Educacion, in order to produce one of the first globally comparable data sets on student achievement. In particular, the data set is one of the first to include achievement in developing countries, including 29 African countries and 19 Latin American countries. The paper also provides a first attempt at using the data set to identify causal factors that boost achievement. The results show that key drivers of global achievement are civil rights and economic freedom across all countries, and democracy and economic freedom in a subset of African and Latin American countries.
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