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Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries
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This study examines the variation in educational outcomes across and within countries using the TIMSS mathematics tests.It documents the wide cross-country variation in the level and dispersion of test scores.Countries with the highest test scores are those with the least inequality in scores, which suggests a "virtuous" equity-efficiency trade-off in improving educational outcomes.Analyzing the association of gender, immigrant status, and family background factors with scores, we find large cross-country differences in the relation between those factors and scores.
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Previous literature using other cycles of TIMSS suggested a prominent inverse relation between the within-country dispersion of scores and the average level of scores by country.
“This fi nding was consistent with the previous literature using other cycles of TIMSS, which suggested a prominent inverse relation between the within-country dispersion of scores and the average level of scores by country (Freeman et al. 2010; Mullis et al. 2016).”
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Broer, M., Bai, Y., & Fonseca, F. (2019) · IEA Research for Education · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11991-1 · Cited by 145
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- Freeman, R., Machin, S., & Viarengo, M.
- Affiliations
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Venue
- National Bureau of Economic Research
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- National Bureau of Economic Research
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- 2010-08
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- Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Keywords
- educational outcomes, cross-national variation, within-country variation, TIMSS, mathematics achievement, equity-efficiency trade-off, educational inequality, gender differences, immigrant students, family background, education policy
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