Where Immigrant Students Succeed
Subtitle: A Comparative Review of Performance And Engagement in Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa))
Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel; OECD
Published: November 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789264023604
Subjects: Equal opportunities; Immigration & emigration; Philosophy of education; International - General; Emigration & Immigration; Students & Student Life; Education; Business / Economics / Finance
Description: Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing information on countries’ approaches to the integration of immigrants, it looks at other factors that could influence immigrant students’ performance – such as their attitudes to school, their motivation and learning strategies as well as their social background and the language spoken at home – giving valuable implications for educational policy.