Search results for "International Comparison"

Qualité et efficience de l'école primaire française : éléments de comparaisons spatiales et temporelles

2008

08001 - 20 p.; Document de travail de l'IREDU 2008-01; L'objectif principal de ce texte est de présenter des éléments factuels sur les résultats de l'école primaire française. Notre réflexion portera sur deux dimensions complémentaires, à savoir la qualité et l'efficience, celles-ci seront examinées dans une double perspective comparative (temporelle et spatiale). Dans une première partie, nous mobiliserons les données des enquêtes internationales pour apprécier les résultats des élèves français et leur évolution dans le temps sur ces 15 dernières années. La seconde partie sera consacrée aux coûts de l'enseignement primaire et plusieurs aspects seront abordés. Dans un premier temps, l'évolu…

Note critique : A World of Difference ? Comparing Learners Across Europe ? OSBORN M . ; BROADFOOT P . ; MC NESS E . ; PLANEL C . ; RAVN B . & TRIGGS …

2005

Semantics bias in cross-national comparative analyses : Is it good or bad to have "fair" health?

2016

The Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social and health indicators on adolescents in 43 countries. The study provides comparable data on health behaviors and health outcomes through the use of a common protocol, which have been a back bone of the study sine its initiation in 1983. Recent years, researchers within the study have noticed a questionable comparability on the widely used item on self-rated health. One of the four response categories to the item “Would you say your health is….?” showed particular variation, as the response category “Fair” varied from 20 % in Latvia and Moldova to 3–4 % in Bulgaria and Macedonia. A qualitative min…

Deviant Youth Groups in Italy and France: Prevalence and Characteristics

2010

International audience; This paper sets out to compare the existence of Juvenile deviant groups in both France and Italy and their characteristics. The comparison between Italy (N=5,236) and France (N=3, 353) is based on the ISRD study of the year 2006 and shows that the term "gang" is commonly used to refer to a group of friends only. The strongest associated variables in both countries to illegal acts are the acceptance of doing illegal things, taking part in delinquent acts, considering the group as a gang as well as spending a lot of time in public places. Delinquent activity of Juvenile delinquent groups varies from one country to another and the French respondents show a greater parti…

Comparaison internationale : à la recherche de jeunes diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur compétents en informatique

2003

By 1990, tow-thirds of all the jobs available for graduates with higher educational qualifications required advanced computer skills. However, only 30% of these graduates felt that they mastered these skills sufficiently well. Many of them have had to complete their initial vocational training by taking continuing training courses. In addition, mastering computer skills usually means earning higher wages. These results were based on a survey carried out on 35000 people who had graduated in disciplines of all kinds in eleven European countries and Japan.

Pathways fostering mobility to higher education for vulnerable immigrants in France, Switzerland and Canada

2016

In this article we wish to clarify not only if, but also how – through which institutional settings – higher education is accessed by students from vulnerable immigrant groups in France, Switzerland and Canada. We are interested in the possible educational mobility that immigrant youths can experience arising from country-specific educational policies designed to increase the enrolment in higher education, particularly the flow from upper-secondary vocational educational tracks to higher education ones. We analyse using panel data in each country the accessibility of different pathways to higher education while taking into account the characteristics of the students. In terms of educational…

Diversification of old-age care services for older people: Trade-offs between coverage, diversification and targeting in European countries.

2011

Information on public services for older people is often limited to institutional care and Home Help/ Home Care, be it for individuals in surveys, statistics for a specific country or for international comparisons. Yet, these two major services in many countries are supplemented — or substituted — by other, minor services. The latter include services such as transportation services, meals-on-wheels, alarm systems, and day care. In this study the authors use various data sources to provide information on all or most of these types of support for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, England, Spain, and Israel, concluding with a closer scrutiny of Swedish service profiles. When all types of suppo…

Inequalities in educational opportunities in France: educational expansion, democratization or shifting barriers?

2000

International audience; This paper is concerned with inequalities in educational opportunities in France and presents data collected from cohorts born between 1919 and 1973, a period characterized by educational expansion. Data from large-scale representative French surveys were compiled in such a way as to make accurate historical and international comparisons possible. The paper argues that there has been a shift in social inequalities, from entry into collège (lower secondary school) to entry into lycée (upper secondary school leading to the baccalauréat). Finally, policy implications have been drawn from international comparisons of data on the reduction of social inequality. Cet articl…

An International perspective on trends in the quality of learning achievement (1965-2007)

2008

08095 - 2009/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/01 - En ligne à l'adresse : http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001780/178009e.pdf; Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 "Overcoming Inequality: why governance matters". 77 p.

Pathways to higher education in France and Switzerland: Do vocational tracks facilitate access to higher education for immigrant students?

2014

In this chapter we wish to clarify through which institutional pathways higher education is accessed by immigrant group students in Switzerland and France. We have chosen these two countries because they differ from each other both in their educational systems and in the ways new routes to higher education have been set up through vocationally orientated programmes. The educational landscape in France is characterised by a more school-based system and has a greater tradition of prestigious tertiary education institutions (Duru-Bellat et al., 2008). Moreover, traditional vocational education and training (VET) does not have very high status and therefore fails to attract a large proportion o…