What is it about?
Schooling matters. The authors' professional pursuits for over twenty-five years have been focused on measuring one key aspect of schooling: the curriculum - what students are expected to study and what they spend their time studying. This documents their conviction that schools and schooling play a vital and defining role in what students know and are able to do with respect to mathematics and science. This research examines seventeen international studies of mathematics and science to provide a nuanced comparative education study. Whilst including multiple measures of students' family and home backgrounds, these studies measure the substance of the curriculum students study which has been shown to have a strong relationship with student performance. Such studies have demonstrated the interrelatedness of student background and curriculum. Student background influences their opportunities to learn and their achievements, yet their schooling can have even greater significance.
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Why is it important?
Schooling matters. This book documents the authors' conviction that schools and schooling play a vital and defining role in what students know and are able to do with respect to mathematics and science. The studies examined in the book demonstrated the interrelatedness of student background and curriculum. Student background influences their opportunities to learn and their achievements, yet their schooling can have even greater significance.
Perspectives
This book is a culmination of what we have learned with regard to mathematics and science learning observed through the lens of 60 years of international mathematics and science tests. It is a first look at the entire history of international assessments in these arenas and draws important conclusions about schooling and the roll it plays in what students know and are able to do in mathematics and science.
William Schmidt
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: Schooling Across the Globe, November 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781316758830.
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Resources
fifteen eightyfour - Schooling Across the Globe
Interview about Schooling Across the Globe on fifteen eightyfour a Higher Education podcast supported by Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press with William Schmidt.
Why there's no "holy grail" in education
Presentation by William Schmidt at Cambridge Assessment's global headquarters.
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