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How well do our students achieve? A summary of 35 years of international comparisons

Warwick B. Elley
Abstract: 

How well do our students learn what we set out to teach them? There are many opinions, but not enough facts. This article summarises the results of 35 years of international surveys of achievement in reading, mathematics, and science. There is some support for our reading programmes in the cross-national data, but serious questions remain about our weaknesses in mathematics and science.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0575
Journal issue: 
set 2006: no. 1

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