Education at a glance : OECD indicators 2006 /

This 2006 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos
Format: Book
Published: Paris : OECD, 2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Editorial
  • Introduction
  • Reader's guide
  • A. The output of educational institutions and the impact of learning: Indicator A1. Educational attainment of the population
  • Indicator A2. Current upper secondary graduation rates
  • Indicator A3. Current tertiary graduation and survival rates
  • Indicator A4. What 15-year-olds can do in mathematics
  • Indicator A5. Between- and within-school variation in the mathematics performance of 15-year-olds
  • Indicator A6. Fifteen-year-old students who perform at the lowest levels of proficiency in mathematics (2003)
  • Indicator A7. Institutional differentiation, socio-economic status and 15-year-old students' mathematics performance (2003)
  • Indicator A8. Labour force participation by level of educational attainment
  • Indicator A9. The returns to education: education and earnings
  • Indicator A10. The returns to education: links between education, economic growth and social outcomes
  • Indicator A11. Impact of demographic trends on education provision
  • B. Financial and human resources invested in education: Indicator B1. Educational expenditure per student
  • Indicator B2. Expenditure on educational institutions relative to Gross Domestic Product
  • Indicator B3. Public and private investment in educational institutions
  • Indicator B4. Total public expenditure on education
  • Indicator B5. Tuition fees charged by tertiary institutions and support for students and households through public subsidies
  • Indicator B6. Expenditure in institutions by service category and by resource category
  • C. Access to education, participation and progression: Indicator C1. Enrolment in education from primary education to adult life
  • Indicator C2. Participation in secondary and tertiary education
  • Indicator C3. Student mobility and foreign students in tertiary education
  • Indicator C4. Education and work status of the youth population
  • Indicator C5. Participation in adult learning
  • D. The learning environment and organisation of school: Indicator D1. Total intended instruction time for students in primary and secondary education
  • Indicator D2. Class size and ratio of students to teaching staff
  • Indicator D3. Teachers' salaries
  • Indicator D4. Teaching time and teachers' working time
  • Indicator D5. Access to and use of ICT
  • Annex 1. Characteristics of educational systems
  • Annex 2. Reference statistics
  • Annex 3 (sources, methods and technical notes)
  • References
  • Contributors to this publication
  • Related OECD publications.