International surveys of educational achievement: How robust are the findings?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 623-646

  Brown, Giorgina ^a   Micklewright, John ^b   Schnepf, Sylke V ^b   Waldmann, Robert ^c  

^a ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Educational achievement; International Adult Literacy Survey; Programme for International Student Assessment; Progress in International Reading Literacy Study; Test scores; Trends in International Maths and Science Study

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250353177     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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