Against the odds
Subtitle: disadvantaged students who succeed in school
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Secretary-General; OECD Directorate for Education; OECD iLibrary; Programme for International Student Assessment
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9789264089952; 9789264090873
Subjects: Underachievers; Educational equalization; Academic achievement; Students with social disabilities; Education; Poor children
Other titles: Disadvantaged students who succeed in school
Description: Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. This publication focuses on students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged background. The report shows that overcoming barriers to achievement is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables socio-economically disadvantaged students to fulfill their potential. Resilient students are characterized by positive approaches to learning, for example, having more interest in science or having more self-confidence. The evidence in PISA shows that positive approaches to learning tend to boost the performance of advantaged students more than that of disadvantaged ones. From an equity perspective, therefore, policies aimed at fostering positive approaches to learning ought to target disadvantaged students more than others.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso.

"Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found online at: www.oecd.org/publishing/corrigenda"--T.p. verso.

"Programme for International Student Assessment"--Cover.

"This publication was prepared at the OECD Directorate for Education under the direction of Andreas Schleicher"--Foreword.

OECD code: 98 2010 06 1 P

Also available in French and German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85).

Also available online to subscribers.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: PISA as a study of student resilience; title: Defining and characterising student resilience in PISA; title: A profile of student resilience; title: Closing the gap? Enhancing the performance of socio-economically disadvantage students; title: Conclusions and policy implications.