When Students Don’t Care: Reexamining International Differences in Achievement and Student Effort

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Capital Pub Date : 2019-10-07 DOI:10.1086/705799

Gema Zamarro, Collin Hitt, Ildefonso Méndez

引用次数: 46

Abstract

Policy debates in education are greatly influenced by international differences in test scores. The presumption is that differences in test scores reflect differences in cognitive skills and content knowledge. We challenge this presumption by studying how much of the variation in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores is associated with student effort. We build a number of measures of student effort on the basis of both the PISA test and the student survey. Together, our measures of student effort explain between 32 and 38 percent of the variation in test scores across countries.

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当学生不关心:重新审视成绩和学生努力的国际差异

教育政策辩论在很大程度上受到国际考试成绩差异的影响。假设考试成绩的差异反映了认知技能和内容知识的差异。我们通过研究国际学生评估项目(PISA)分数的变化有多少与学生的努力有关来挑战这一假设。我们在PISA测试和学生调查的基础上建立了一系列衡量学生努力程度的方法。总的来说，我们对学生努力程度的衡量可以解释各国考试成绩差异的32%到38%。

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Journal of Human Capital ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Human Capital is dedicated to human capital and its expanding economic and social roles in the knowledge economy. Developed in response to the central role human capital plays in determining the production, allocation, and distribution of economic resources and in supporting long-term economic growth, JHC is a forum for theoretical and empirical work on human capital—broadly defined to include education, health, entrepreneurship, and intellectual and social capital—and related public policy analyses. JHC encompasses microeconomic, macroeconomic, and international economic perspectives on the theme of human capital. The journal offers a platform for discussion of topics ranging from education, labor, health, and family economics.