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Acepto
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas

Research Areas

Education and development. PISA 2009 and the Spanish educational system
Education and development. PISA 2009 and the Spanish educational system
Project start date: 2011
Year of publication: 2012
Funding institution: Fundación BBVA

Since the year 2000, the OECD has launched an international standardized evaluation program of the knowledge gained by 15-year-old students, an age that coincides with the end of compulsory education. Every three years, the Programme for International Student Assessment, known as PISA, tests the skills and knowledge of these young people in reading, mathematics and science. In addition to these skill tests, the PISA reports provide a huge amount of information on the students’ lives, on their family background and on the school they attended. This data helps examine the relationship between tests’ scores and environmental conditions, assessing the equity of the educational systems and identifying the conditions that lead to better results.

However, there are three basics aspects of the functioning of the different educational systems that have not been thoroughly examined neither by the studies accompanying the PISA report, nor by the associated literature, and which require special attention in the Spanish case. This research project, carried out for the BBVA Foundation, focuses on the analysis of these aspects: 1) it studies in depth the measurement of educational scores and not only the average scores of the PISA tests; 2) it examines the relationship between educational attainment, economic growth and the labor market; and 3) analyzes the causes and nature of the large differences in school performance between the Spanish regions.

RESEARCH TEAM

Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Ivie
UPV/EHU and Iseak
Sara De la Rica Goiricelaya
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and FEDEA
José Ignacio García Pérez
IE University
Ainara González de San Román
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Marisa Hidalgo Hidalgo
University of Glasgow
José Antonio Robles Zurita
Universitat de València and Ivie
Universitat de València and Ivie

EDITING, DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION

Julia Teschendorff Cooper