MULTILEVEL PROFICIENCY COMPARISONS WITH AN APPLICATION TO EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES IN PISA

Ricardo Martinez () and Antonio Villar

No 18.04, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

Abstract: We propose in this paper a general framework for evaluation problems in which the outcome range of the variable can be partitioned into a series of levels that may have different meaning or importance, as they may represent qualitatively different results. Measures of poverty, excellence, inclusion or overall performance indicators are particular cases of this type of problems. We focus on the case of additive functions, to facilitate the discussion. This framework is applied to the analysis of educational poverty, excellence and overall performance of 15-year old students, according to the PISA 2015 data for all 68 participating countries and large economies. The analysis provides insights on the differences between countries that are not captured by the average test scores.

Keywords: social evaluation; multilevel indicators; education; poverty; excellence; PISA. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H7 I2 I3 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2018-04
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Working Paper: Multilevel proficiency comparisons with an application to educational outcomes in PISA (2019)
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