Untapped Skills [electronic resource].
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentCorporate Author
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContributor
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2012.
This report reviews recent trends in international migration, describing the size of current foreign-born populations across countries and analysing factors associated to the size and nature of these populations, reviews a set of important differences and similarities across educational systems and gives a brief description of population sizes across countries. It also provides an overview of the evidence emerging from PISA 2009 on the performance and socio-economic background of children of immigrants. Who are the children of immigrants? What do they know and what can they do? How do they dif
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Foreword; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; The successful integration of the children of immigrants is a key benchmark of success for social, education and migration policies.; Immigrant students underperform in PISA, but the performance gap between them and non-immigrant students varies considerably across countries, even after adjusting for socio-economic differences.; Language is an obstacle to school achievement for many immigrant students.
Lower performance is more strongly associated with a higher concentration of socio-economic disadvantage than with a higher concentration of immigrants or foreign-language speakers.Some education and social policies have different effects on immigrants and non-immigrants.; Focus on language, concentration of disadvantage and the concerns specific to immigrant families.; Reader's Guide; 1. Overview of Immigration Regimes and Education Systems; Introduction; Overview of international migration; International migration trends in recent decades; Box 1.1 Key definitions: Immigrant background
Figure 1.1 50 years of net migration in selected OECD countries, 1959-2009Figure 1.2 The foreign-born population as a percentage of the total population, 2010; The regulation of international migration; The composition of international migration; Figure 1.3 Permanent immigration into selected OECD and non-OECD countries, total and by category of entry, 2009; The immigrant student population; Introduction to PISA; The PISA surveys; Box 1.2 Key features of PISA 2009; The PISA student population; The prevalence of immigrant students across countries; Figure 1.4 Percentage of immigrant students
The proportion of immigrant students continues to growFigure 1.5 Percentage of immigrant students in PISA 2000 and PISA 2009; Overview of education systems; The level and distribution of resources; Managing student diversity: the selection and grouping of students across and within schools; Figure 1.6 How school systems allocate resources for education; Governance of schools; Figure 1.7 How school systems select and group students for schools, grades and programmes; Figure 1.8 How school systems are governed; Assessment and accountability; Summary and conclusions
2. The Performance Profiles of Immigrant StudentsIntroduction; Knowledge and skills disadvantage among immigrant students; Average performance; Performance differences across the distribution of performance; Figure 2.1 Performance disadvantage of immigrant students; Figure 2.2 Representation of immigrant students among high and low achievers; Figure 2.3 PISA reading proficiency levels; Figure 2.4 Skills and knowledge inequality across immigrant background at the bottom of the performance distribution, lowest performers by immigrant background
Knowledge and skills disadvantage among first- and second-generation students
This report reviews recent trends in international migration, describing the size of current foreign-born populations across countries and analysing factors associated to the size and nature of these populations, reviews a set of important differences and similarities across educational systems and gives a brief description of population sizes across countries. It also provides an overview of the evidence emerging from PISA 2009 on the performance and socio-economic background of children of immigrants. Who are the children of immigrants? What do they know and what can they do? How do they dif
Children of immigrants -- Education.
Immigrant students.
Immigrants.
PISA