Inequality and Students’ PISA 2018 Performance: A Cross-Country Study

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl/xmlui/handle/11089/39153" target="_blank" >https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl/xmlui/handle/11089/39153</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1508-2008.24.27" target="_blank" >10.18778/1508-2008.24.27</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Inequality and Students’ PISA 2018 Performance: A Cross-Country Study

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between countries’ PISA study results from 2018 and a set of indices related to socio‑economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index, along with purely economic variables, such as GDP per capita and government expenditure on education. The study covered 70 countries, consisting of 37 OECD countries and 33 non‑OECD countries. Research methods included multivariate linear regression models, k‑means clustering, and hierarchical clustering. Our findings revealed that the Gini index was statistically insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender inequality index was the single most statistically significant explanatory variable for both OECD and non‑OECD countries. Therefore, our recommendation for policymakers is simple: increase students’ PISA performance, thus enhancing countries’ human capital and competitiveness, and focus on decreasing gender disparity and the associated loss of achievement due to gender inequality.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Inequality and Students’ PISA 2018 Performance: A Cross-Country Study

Popis výsledku anglicky

The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between countries’ PISA study results from 2018 and a set of indices related to socio‑economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index, along with purely economic variables, such as GDP per capita and government expenditure on education. The study covered 70 countries, consisting of 37 OECD countries and 33 non‑OECD countries. Research methods included multivariate linear regression models, k‑means clustering, and hierarchical clustering. Our findings revealed that the Gini index was statistically insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender inequality index was the single most statistically significant explanatory variable for both OECD and non‑OECD countries. Therefore, our recommendation for policymakers is simple: increase students’ PISA performance, thus enhancing countries’ human capital and competitiveness, and focus on decreasing gender disparity and the associated loss of achievement due to gender inequality.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC RESEARCH - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

ISSN

2082-6737

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

163-182

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-11111111111