Raising the Quality of Secondary Education in East Asia
The author seeks to broaden our understanding of the determinants of student achievement among East Asian economies using the TIMSS-R data set and, in the process, to remedy some of the ambiguities in the literature to date. These ambiguities are f...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2540156/raising-quality-secondary-education-east-asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18058 |
| Summary: | The author seeks to broaden our
understanding of the determinants of student achievement
among East Asian economies using the TIMSS-R data set and,
in the process, to remedy some of the ambiguities in the
literature to date. These ambiguities are frequently due to
the sparseness of detailed data on students, teachers, and
schools. The TIMSS-R data set offers detailed information on
these variables, which is not typically available from other
sources, allowing the author to isolate the impact of
various factors affecting student achievement, while
controlling for specific characteristics of the students,
teachers, and schools surveyed. The results indicate that
the most consistent factors affecting student performance
are characteristics associated with students (innate
abilities and home resources). Moreover, the author does not
find any consistent relationship between the performance of
students and school resources or teacher autonomy, both of
which are often advocated in the discussion of education reform. |
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