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I sondaggi politico-elettorali agli inizi del terzo millennio, caratteristiche e qualità statistica dei dati
No full textEquality of Educational Opportunities, Schools’ Characteristics and Resilient Students: An Empirical Study of EU-15 Countries Using OECD-PISA 2009 Data
No full textIn the existent literature, little attention has been paid to the characteristics of the schools attended by the “resilient” students, i.e. those that, despite their socioeconomic background, are able to obtain high academic results. The paper explores this topic by using OECD-PISA 2009 data for EU-15 countries; we estimate a statistical model to find those school-level variables that are correlated with the probability of a disadvantaged student being resilient, net of country-specific structural differences. A by-product of the study is a better understanding of the educational drivers that help disadvantaged students and this can be beneficial for a country’s educational system as a whole. In particular, the analysis reveals that schools attended by resilient students do offer more extracurricular activities and are characterized by a better positive school climate
Come gli studenti delle regioni Italiane superano il gap socio economico: evidenze da PISA 2012
No full textA quantile approach to assess gender differences in financial literacy among Italian students
No full textRecent data from the OECD PISA (2012) highlight that there are no differences in financial literacy between boys and girls in all participating countries with the exception of Italy where boys perform significantly higher. In this light, we analyze the determinants and “dynamics” of this gap among Italian 15-year-olds students applying some counterfactual decomposition methods. Main findings reveal that although the majority of the gender gap is explained by differences in the coefficients, an important role in this differential is played by the attitudes to problem solving and the scholastic behavior
Inequality in education: Can Italian disadvantaged students close the gap?
No full texttThe relationship between socio-economic status and school achievement is well documented and exten-sive literature indicates that students from more advantaged backgrounds perform better at school.Despite this relationship, several international assessments have highlighted that in every country thereare a relevant number of “resilient students”, i.e. students from a disadvantaged socio-economic back-ground who achieve relatively high levels of performance in terms of education. In this paper, thedeterminants of resilience in the Italian educational system are investigated through the analysis of datafrom the OECD-PISA 2009 cycle, with a specific focus on the role of school-level variables that couldhelp more students perform to a higher standard. The aim is to target a specific category of resilient stu-dents, namely those from a low socio-economic background at both family and school level, proposing aninnovative statistical procedure to derive a sample of disadvantaged students attending disadvantagedschools. After this, a multilevel logistic approach is adopted to determine which specific characteristicsof students, families and schools tend to give disadvantaged students a higher probability of becom-ing resilient students. Our results confirm that individual-level characteristics play a role, but also thatsome school factors (i.e. extra-curricular activities and school leadership) are equally involved, suggestingpolicy- and management-related implications
Gli studenti resilienti: una opportunità per orientare le politiche educative
No full textIn questo lavoro si affronta il tema della relazione tra contesto socio economico e performance scolastiche focalizzandosi su di una particolare fascia di studenti che vengono definiti come resilienti. Con questo termine si fa riferimento, in ambito educativo, a quegli studenti che, anche provenendo da famiglie con background socio economico modesto, riescono comunque a primeggiare negli studi. L’analisi dei fattori che contraddistinguono i resilienti, rispetto a quelli con simile estrazione sociale ma con scarsi risultati scolastici, può fornire degli spunti interessanti per migliorare l’equità del sistema scolastico italiano e, di conseguenza, contribuire ad accrescere, dal punto di vista qualitativo e quantitativo, il capitale umano del nostro Paes
Un approccio analitico alla qualità dei dati del “Programme for international Student Assessment” dell’OECD
No full textThe “Programme for international Student Assessment” (PISA) survey, carried out by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) three-yearly, is a rigorous and wide international comparative work on fifteen year-old students’ school performance. The survey makes use of very advanced methodologies and allows both to evaluate the students’ performance and to gather data about their families and their socio-economic context which, together with several institutional factors, may influence the results of the educational process. This work aims at drawing attention to the great informative importance of PISA’s data through some characteristic aspects based on the quality of the statistical information obtained. The attention has been particularly focused on the presence of missing data and on their impact on the general economy of the survey. Besides the authors, analysing the Italian side of PISA 2003, try to find out possible latent dynamics which characterize the missing answer, in order to outline the possible strategies to improve the overall quality of the survey to the highest degree
Studenti resilienti: quando la famiglia "non conta"
No full textIl tema della resilienza in ambito educativo è di particolare interesse poiché strettamente connesso con il concetto di equità, intesa come capacità del sistema scolastico di dare le stesse opportunità di accesso e di successo a tutti. L’equità scolastica, come emerge dai risultati delle principali indagini nazionali e internazionali, costituisce uno dei punti di criticità del sistema italiano caratterizzato da un notevole gap di competenze tra gli studenti del Nord (top performers) e quelli del Sud (low performers). Si cercherà, quindi, di descrivere il fenomeno della resilienza in Italia inquadrandola in una prospettiva school-oriented, cioè focalizzandosi non solo sulle caratteristiche degli studenti, ma, soprattutto, sui fattori che a livello di scuola possono influenzare e favorire la resilienza
A multidimensional regional index of economic well-being for Italy
No full textIn this paper we propose a composite indicator in order to assess the economic well-being of the Italian regions for the period 2002-2006 according to the multidimensional nature of phenomena.
The Osberg and Sharp’s approach is adopted and four dimensions of economic well-being are considered. In order to merge those dimensions and to build the Regional Index of Economic well-Being (RIEWB), reducing the arbitrariness in the choice of variables weighting, two techniques have been applied: the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Finally, the paper aims to analyze the relationship between the multidimensional economic well-being index and the GDP
La valutazione dell’alta formazione universitaria: il dottorato di ricerca nella prospettiva italiana,
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