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Performance of students with an immigrant background:
evidence from the OECD's PISA study
Maciej JakubowskiDirectorate for Education, OECD
Programme for International Student Assessment
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1998PISA countries in
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Coverage of world economy 87%
PISA 2009 in brief
Over half a million students… representing 28 million 15-year-olds in 74*
countries/economies
… took an internationally agreed 2-hour test… Goes beyond testing whether students can
reproduce what they were taught……to assess students’ capacity to extrapolate from what they
know and creatively apply their knowledge in novel situations
…and responded to questions on… their personal background, their schools
and their engagement with learning and school Parents, principals and system leaders provided data
on… school policies, practices, resources and institutional
factors that help explain performance differences
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1998PISA countries in
2000200120032006200977%81%83%85%86%
Coverage of world economy 87%
PISA 2009 in brief PISA seeks to…
… Support governments to prepare students…… to deal with more rapid change than ever
before…
… for jobs that have not yet been created…
… using technologies that have not yet been invented…
… to solve problems that we don’t yet know will arise
… Provide a basis for policy dialogue and global collaboration in defining and implementing educational goals, policies and practices
– Show countries what achievements are possible– Help governments set policy targets in terms of measurable
goals achieved elsewhere– Gauge the pace of educational progress – Facilitate peer-learning on policy and practice .
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Performance of students with an immigrant background
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Stock of foreign-born, as percentage in population
Trends in the number of immigrant students
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iReading performance by immigrant
status
Native students perform better
Students with an immigrant background perform better
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iPerformance of students by language spoken at
home
Students who speak another
language at home perform better
Students who speak the language
of assessment at home perform
better
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Immigrant students and educational policy
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iCharacteristics of schools attended by students with
and without an immigrant background
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Concentration: Immigrant students attend schools with higher levels of concentration of immigrant students than their native peers
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What explains the gap?
STUDENT LEVEL FACTORS “SES” and “speaking a different language at
home” Other factors:
+ availability of educational resources at home
+ reading at home at a young age
+ preschool education
SCHOOL LEVEL FACTORS
+ More hours per week for language learning
- Higher concentration of immigrant students at school
+ Higher school average socio-economic composition
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iSuggested school-level policies
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Questions for Discussion OECD work on immigrant students
PISA 2009 report, Volume II www.pisa.oecd.org
“Children of immigrants” (forthcoming) “OECD Reviews of Migrant Education -
Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students: Policies, Practice and Performance”
OECD provides also wider perspective on migration
International Migration Outlook
Statistics and policy analysis
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