Research On Causes of Country Differences
Large international student assessment programs such as PISA and TIMSS have provided essential data for many recent analyses of how student achievement affects society at large, such as economic development, democratization and health.
Although PISA and TIMSS officials and researchers themselves generally refrain from hypothesizing about the large and stable differences in student achievement between countries, other researchers have investigated single educational factors like central exams private schools or streaming between schools at later age. An extensive literature related to cross-countries difference in scores has also developed since 2000.
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