Evaluating educational services: The performance of public and private institutions measured by PISA-2003;Evaluación de servicios educativos: El rendimiento en los centros públicos y privados medido en PISA-2003

Hacienda Publica Espanola

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 33-66

  Calero, Jorge ^a   Escardíbul, Josep Oriol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Educational finance; Educational performance; Evaluation of public services; Multilevel analysis; PISA programme

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549090201     PISSN: 02101173     EISSN: 11339470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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