The learning gain over one school year among 15-year-olds: An international comparison based on PISA
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On average across around 70 countries, students lost the equivalent of more than 7 months of learning.
“Considering that one year of learning is equivalent to roughly 20 points on the PISA scale26, this means that on average across around 70 countries students lost an equivalent of more than 7 months of learning.”
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- Authors
- Avvisati, F., & Givord, P.
- Affiliations
- Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (FR)
- Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (FR)
- Venue
- Labour Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-10
- Volume
- 84
- Pages
- 102365
- ISSN
- 0927-5371 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4285064746
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 3
- FWCI
- 14.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (am, 221 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- Labour Economics (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-21-ESRE-0034)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Productivity
- Keywords
- learning gains, academic performance, 15-year-old students, PISA, cross-national comparison, academic year, educational attainment
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