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Explaining Student Performance Evidence from the international PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS surveys Final Report November 2005 Explaining Student Performance Evidence from the international PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS surveys Jens Henrik Haahr with Thomas Kibak Nielsen, Martin Eggert Hansen and S ren Teglgaard Jakobsen This study was carried out on behalf of the European Commission s Directorate-General for Education and Culture. Views expressed represent exclusively the positions of the authors and do not necessarily correspond to those of the European Commission. 1 Contents Index.

Institutional Differentiation Means that Socio-Economic Background Matters More (pp. 146-150, 173-174) Moreover, the number of distinct school types and educational programmes is positively correlated with the significance of socio-economic background for student performance. In other words, the data from PISA suggests that the more

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