PISA 2009 results
Subtitle: What makes a school successful? : resources, policies and practices
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789264091481; 9789264091559
Subjects: Programme for International Student Assessment; Educational tests and measurements; Education and state; School management and organization; School environment; Educational evaluation; Educational change; Education; School improvement programs
Other titles: What makes a school successful? :; Resources, policies and practices
Description: This volume of PISA 2009 results examines how human, financial and material resources, and education policies and practices shape learning outcomes. Following an introduction to PISA and a Reader's Guide explaining how to interpret the data, Chapter 1 presents a summary of features shared by "successful" school systems. Chapter 2 details how resources, policies and practices relate to student performance. Chapter 3 provides detailed descriptions and in-depth analyses of selected organisational features (how students are sorted into grades, schools, and programmes, school autonomy, et
Notes: Title from title page of source document.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; Introduction to PISA; Reader's Guide; Chapter 1; title: Some Features Sharedby High-Performing School Systems; Chapter 2; title: How Resources, Policiesand Practices are Related to Student Performance; Chapter 3; title: How Schooling is Organised; Chapter 4; title: The Learning Environment; Policy Implications; References; Annex A; Annex B; Annex C;