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Trustworthiness of information about students' competencies in fundamental concepts in calculus provided by written examination
2015
International audience; The research reported in this paper aims to explore how students' competencies in calculus are exposed when being assessed. Several different competencies are required to achieve proficiency in mathematics. However, one problem is when the main focus of the student lies within procedural fluency because this is what pays off in the final examination. In this paper, written examination and task-based interview are used to find information about one student's competence in using formulae, fluency in written procedures, and strategies used for solving tasks. It is argued that the information about the student's competencies seen through a task-based interview is differe…
Pathways to higher education in France and Switzerland: the aspirations of first and second generation immigrants and the permeability of educational…
2013
Using panel data from France (DEPP) and Switzerland (TREE) the pathways to higher education in the two countries were analysed, looking specifically at the accessibly of higher education through different educational tracks while taking into account different characteristics of the students, i.e. gender and different immigrant backgrounds. How the institutional settings in both countries influence access to higher education with a special interest in the integrative function of vocational baccalaureate certificates. If the educational characteristics of the North African youths in France and those of students with Turkish or former Yugoslavian background in Switzerland were similar to those…
School environment, what effects on "individual" aspirations? The case of post-secondary education"
2007
The object of this study is to analyze differences in aspirations and choice of course of study at the outset of higher education. More particularly it aims to determine if the "individual" choices, which have an impact on the construction of educational inequalities, depend on school environment. Since the diversified character of school environment is an established fact in France, the first part of this work, based on a review of the sociology of education literature, draws attention to contextual dimensions as possible factors influencing educational and vocational aspirations. This question, which has remained unexplored at this level of the educational system in France, is dealt with …
The access and success in the different higher education tracks in France for female and male youths of North-African origin?
2014
International audience; In France, the baccalauréat is the key diploma to enter higher education and today nearly half of the youths from immigrant families have such a diploma. What kind of educational outcomes can they expect in higher education? Our presentation will focus on the access to and the completion of higher education according to ethnic origin, social background and gender.
Access to Higher Education: the French case
2015
Ce rapport a été réalisé dans le cadre d’un projet comparatif européen sur l’accès à l’enseignement supérieur, et présenté lors de la conférence de clôture de ce projet à Athènes le 22/11/2014.; In this report designed for a European audience, and conceived within a project focused on access to higher education (HE), the first part recalls the principles that shape the present organization of the French system. Then, the present frame in which HE issues are nested is described (especially the evolution of the population eligible). In a third part, the report focuses upon the main problems one may consider about the functioning of access to HE (especially, the difficulty to regulate students…
A Tale of Two Reform Styles
2007
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Why Grandes Écoles are so valued?
2009
09033; This contribution was aimed at examining if the privileged position of Grandes Écoles on the French labour market could be linked to training and, in particular, knowledge acquired in these courses. The REFLEX survey data allows to test this hypothesis for a sample of French graduates from Grandes Écoles and University master programmes. Our results show that actually some useful skills on the labour market are more easily acquired in Grandes Écoles. This is the case in particular of 'analytical thinking' or 'ability to command a foreign language', domains on which Grandes Écoles have heavily focused their curriculum in the 1990s. We show however that the competencies acquisition pro…
The teaching production in french institutions of higher education
1980
International audience
LES RESSOURCES NUMÉRIQUES DANS L’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR SÉNÉGALAIS : état des lieux et étude prospective
2014
It is in the context of poverty or information exclusion that the massive dissemination of information and technology tools in Senegalese academic libraries responds to an urgent need for transformation and improvement of operational modes as well as modernization of services for different audiences, in particular students. Currently, in almost all academic and research libraries of Senegal digitization activities that crossed the rise of the Internet are being developed. This has created a real increasing effect of digital resources, by the establishment of means of creation and by expansion of access and of sharing of scientific and technical information in higher education institutions. …
Le choix d'une profession par les étudiants. Le cas du Brésil
2005
Further education in Brazil is characterised by a great institutional diversity and by a strong presence of private schools. It has gone through reforms concerning especially the conditions of access to university, by adding to the competitive examination of application to university the creation of a procedure evaluating pupils' skills at the end of secondary school. During their studies, students are faced with difficulties in choosing their career because of a lack of real professional information. As a result, many are those giving up their studies.