Performance, Inclusion and Excellence: An Index of Educational Achievements for PISA
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Thispaperproposesanelementarymultidimensionalindexthatsummarizesthreerelevantaspectsoftheeducationalachievements,outofthedataprovidedbythePISAReports.Thethreeaspectsconsideredare:performance,inclusiveness,andexcellence,andwillbeapproximatedbytheaveragescoresandthedistributionofoutcomesinthedifferentlevelsofproficiency.TheIndexofEducationalAchievements(IEA)isthegeometricmeanofthenormalisedvaluesofthosethreevariables.Weanalysethedistributionofthevariablesthatapproachthosethreeaspectsandtheresultingindex,relativetothecorrespondingaveragetestscoresoftheOECDcountries.ThisindexprovidesamuchwiderdiscriminationpowerthanthemerecomparisonReferences
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