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Performance of immigrant students
Performance of students with an
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immigrant background:
evidence from the OECD's PISA
study
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International Student Assessment
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Performance of immigrant students
PISA 2009 in brief
PISA countries in 2001
2003
2000
2009
2006
1998
Over half a million of world economy 77%
Coverage students… 83%
87%
86%
85%
81%
representing 28 million 15-year-olds in 74* countries/economies
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… took an internationally agreed 2-hour test…
Goes beyond testing whether students can
reproduce what they were taught…
… to assess students’ capacity to extrapolate from what they
know and creatively apply their knowledge in novel situations
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… and responded to questions on…
their personal background, their schools
and their engagement with learning and school
Parents, principals and system leaders provided data on…
school policies, practices, resources and institutional factors
that help explain performance differences
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Performance of immigrant students
PISA 2009 in brief
PISA countries in 2001
2003
2000
2009
2006
1998
PISA seeks to… of world economy 77%
Coverage 83%
87%
86%
85%
81%
… Support governments to prepare students…
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… to deal with more rapid change than ever before…
… for jobs that have not yet been created…
… using technologies that have not yet been invented…
… to solve problems that we don’t yet know will arise
… Provide a basis for policy dialogue and global
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collaboration in defining and implementing
educational goals, policies and practices
– Show countries what achievements are possible
– Help governments set policy targets in terms of
measurable goals achieved elsewhere
– Gauge the pace of educational progress
– Facilitate peer-learning on policy and practice .
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Performance of immigrant students
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Performance of students
with an immigrant background
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Performance of immigrant students
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immigrant students
Trends in the number of
Stock of foreign-born, as percentage in population
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Performance of immigrant students
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7. 7 Reading performance by immigrant status
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Performance of immigrant students
Native students perform better
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Students with an immigrant
background perform better
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Performance of immigrant students
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Performance of students by language spoken at home
Students who speak
the language of
assessment at home
perform better
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Students who speak
another language at
home perform better
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Performance of immigrant students
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Immigrant students and educational policy
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without an immigrant background
Characteristics of schools attended by students with and
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Performance of immigrant students
Concentration: Immigrant students attend schools
with higher levels of concentration of immigrant
students than their native peers
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Native Second generation immigrants First generation immigrants
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
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40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
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Performance of immigrant students
What explains the gap?
STUDENT LEVEL FACTORS
“SES” and “speaking a different language at home”
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Other factors:
+ availability of educational resources at home
+ reading at home at a young age
+ preschool education
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SCHOOL LEVEL FACTORS
+ More hours per week for language learning
- Higher concentration of immigrant students at school
+ Higher school average socio-economic composition
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Suggested school-level policies
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Suggested system-level policies
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Performance of immigrant students
OECDQuestions for Discussion
work on immigrant students
PISA 2009 report, Volume II
www.pisa.oecd.org
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“Children of immigrants” (forthcoming)
“OECD Reviews of Migrant Education - Closing
the Gap for Immigrant Students: Policies,
Practice and Performance”
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OECD provides also wider perspective on
migration
International Migration Outlook
Statistics and policy analysis
Notes de l'éditeur
(Fig. II.4.5)
Let me briefly summarise the influences that we have measured in PISA.