Rolf V. Olsen & Sigrid Blömeke In an earlier blog, we established that international large-scale assessments can be regarded as powerful and influential knowledge sources for making claims about the quality of educational systems. Comparisons between countries have over time...
In international comparisons for mathematics in PISA and TIMSS, Asia outperforms England considerably at the secondary level. For geometry this difference is particularly large. In a recent study, I have investigated if these differences in geometry achievement might be attributed...
John Jerrim It is widely considered important that young people read regularly. A wide range of previous research has linked reading during childhood to improved language skills and higher levels of academic achievement more generally. But does it matter what...
