Educational Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity in Spanish Regions: What does PISA 2015 Reveal?

Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity

Health is perceived as most precious good, and people feel its vulnerability. Societies have been trying to absorb, ameliorate or compensate consequences and health risks with varying emphasis and varying success. Due to the uniqueness of good health to a persons’ ability to live the life he or she wants, health care and performance of health care systems are under critical observation. In this...

Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: An application to Spanish PISA results

This study explicitly considers that education is a multi-input multi-output production process subject to inefficient behaviors that can be identified at student level. Therefore a distance function allows us to calculate different aspects of educational technology. The paper presents an empirical application of this model using Spanish data from the Programme for International Student Assessm...

Beyond Pisa 2015: a Longer-term Strategy of Pisa

d) PISA assesses both subject matter content knowledge, on the one hand, and the capacity of individuals to apply that knowledge creatively, including in unfamiliar contexts, on the other. Until now PISA has assessed students in three main domains in each round: reading, mathematics and science. These domains cover some of the fundamental skills needed to continue on with higher education or su...

Understanding PISA and What It Tells Us About Educational Standards in Ireland Executive Summary

What Does Motion Reveal About Transparency?

The perception of transparent objects from images is known to be a very hard problem in vision. Given a single image, it is difficult to even detect the presence of transparent objects in the scene. In this paper, we explore what can be said about transparent objects by a moving observer. We show how features that are imaged through a transparent object behave differently from those that are ri...