This paper investigates differences between male and female student performance on multiple-choice (MC) versus constructed-response (CR) items used on the large-scale math and reading PISA tests. The ...

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The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has unveiled guidelines for students and schools as Kenya takes part in a global education benchmarking initiative known as the Programme for ...

The results for PISA 2009 are revisited, focusing on the large decline in the scores of Irish students in reading and mathematics achievement. Findings concerning two aspects of PISA are reviewed: (a) ...

Several countries in south-east Europe performed worse than before in the OECD’s latest assessment of 15-year-olds’ mathematics, science and reading skills, with Turkey one of the few to display a ...

In case you haven’t noticed, the debate over testing has become quite heated. Parents, teachers, public officials, and advocates have been arguing over how may tests students have to take, how long ...

The latest PISA scores are out. And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t ...

When tens of thousands of 15-year-olds worldwide sit down at computers to take the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) examination this fall, they will be tested on reading, math and ...

Conventional wisdom is that top U.S. students fare well compared to their peers across the globe. According to this line of reasoning, the US doesn’t make it on the list of the top 25 countries in ...

Sarfaroz Niyozov works for the University of Toronto. He received funding from SSHRC in 2009. Wendy Hughes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

Alma Harris does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...