Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries
Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries

Author: David C. Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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This report describes how the education system in the United States compares with education systems in the other Group of Eight (G-8) countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. The report draws on the most current information about education from three primary sources: the Indicators of National Education Systems (INES) project; the 2003 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA 2003); and the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2003). Findings are organized around five major sections: (1) Population and School Enrollment (Youth Population, Enrollment in Formal Education, Foreign Students in Postsecondary Education); (2) Academic Performance (Fourth-Grade Mathematics and Science Performance, Performance in Mathematics Literacy among 15-Year-Old Students, Relationship between Reading and Mathematics Achievement); (3) Context for Learning (Mathematics Learning, Teacher Professional Development in Mathematics and Science, School Principals' Uses for Assessments); (4) Expenditure for Education (Public School Teachers' Salaries, Expenditure for Education); and (5) Education Returns: Educational Attainment and Income. An appendix presents: The Education Systems of the G-8 Countries. (Contains 38 figures and 5 tables.).

The Measure of America
The Measure of America

Author: Sarah Burd-Sharps

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780231154956

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Introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state and congressional district, as well as by gender, race, and ethnicity. The Index rankings of the 50 states and 436 congressional districts reveal disparities in the health, education, and living standards of different groups.

Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G8 Countries
Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G8 Countries

Author: Joel D. Sherman

Publisher:

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780160677717

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NCES 2003-026. By Joel D. Sherman, Steven D. Honegger, and Jennifer L. McGivern, of the American Institutes for Research. Mariann Lemke, of the National Center for Education Statistics is Project Director. Presents a set of education indicators that describes how the United States education system compares with those in other economically developed countries. Compares these statistics primarily with the eight most industrialized countries in the world, whose representatives meet regularly to discuss economic and other policy issues: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States--the Group of Eight (G8) countries.

Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries
Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries

Author: Lemke Mariann

Publisher:

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780756736279

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For more than a decade, the U.S. has participated actively in international projects that are designed to provide key info. about the performance of the American education system compared to other countries. This report draws on the most current information produced by these projects available at the time of production of this report (summer 2002) to present a set of education indicators that describes how the U.S. education system compares with those in other economically developed countries. Indicators include: Context of Education; Pre-primary and Primary Education; Secondary Education; Higher Education; and Education and the Labor Force. Glossary. Classification of Countries' Education Systems. Charts and tables.

The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation
The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

Author: Katherine Ryan

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1483303489

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Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation addresses methods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation approaches. Key Features Discusses substantive issues surrounding globalization, and its implication for educational policy and practice and ultimately evaluation; Includes state-of-the-art theory chapters and method chapters within scientific, accountability-oriented, learning-oriented, and political genres of evaluation approaches; Provides real-world case exemplar chapters to illustrate core concepts within genres; Extends dialogue on controversial topics and contemporary educational evaluation tensions in the context of globalization; Summarizes, by means of an integration chapter, the issues, tensions and dilemmas confronting educational evaluators in an era of globalization. Serving as a state-of-the-art resource on educational evaluation, this volume is designed for graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers and professional evaluation practitioners with an interest in educational program and policy evaluation.