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Marie Duru-Bellat and Bruno Suchaut (2005)
Organisation and Context, Efficiency and Equity of Educational Systems: what PISA tells us
European Educational Research Journal vol:4 n°3 :
After describing both average scores, dispersion, and social inequalities in achievement in
the various countries included in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
study, this article relates those ‘products’ to country economic and cultural characteristics. It then
explores relations between student scores and a number of institutional characteristics of countries’
educational systems. Results show that relations exist between average scores and certain institutional
or pedagogical practices such as grade repeating or tracking. A high degree of social inequality in
achievement proves to be associated with overall score dispersion and degree to which educational
system differentiates among students.