In summary In two earlier posts, I proposed a metric to measure the "academic gap" – the distance between students performing the lowest and the recognized international benchmark for "average or standard performance". I measured the evolution of the academic gap between 2006 and 2012. In this post, I'm updating the profiles of the countries … Continue reading Academic gap: Any progress since 2012?
In summary Using the metric proposed in my last post, this post presents changes of the "academic gap" across countries with PISA three-subject average between 2006 and 2012. Countries' experience vary widely, while there cannot be well-defined patterns to call from past performance - there were gainers (Japan, Poland, Italy) and losers (Finland, New Zealand, … Continue reading Academic gap: How much did it change between 2006 and 2012?
In summary Inequality in education leads to great potential handicaps for the kids who suffer an academic gap throughout their time in class. Reliable evaluations are a must to measure students' progress (or lack thereof) and drive in-class teacher practice and system-wide education policies. Teachers have their curriculum-related tools for individual students' follow-up. National authorities … Continue reading Academic gap: How deep societies let their kids sink academically?
