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Chapter 2 - Comparing College Aspirations across PISA Countries: Are 17 Percent Oranges Less than 75 Percent Apples?

from Part I - Global Challenges and Common Admissions Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2020

By
Matthias von Davier  and
Hak Ping Tam
Edited by
María Elena Oliveri  and
Cathy Wendler
María Elena Oliveri
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Cathy Wendler
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
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Summary

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), conducted by OECD, produces every three years a very comprehensive database on the skills of 15-year-old students from a large number of countries in mathematics, reading, and science. In addition to the data on skills, PISA also collects data on student background, interests, and aspirations. Students are also asked about their expected highest level of education. In social media and in reports, OECD distributes country averages of educational expectations, a data summary that is critically evaluated in this chapter.

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PISAeducational aspirationscultural differencesvalidity
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Higher Education Admissions Practices
An International Perspective
 , pp. 18 - 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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