OECD

This report seeks to answer the following questions:

• Are there some school factors that are more closely associated with higher performance than others?

• What effect do the policies and structure of education systems have on educational outcomes?

Among the school factors that are easily amenable to policy makers, such as management strategies, which seem to produce the best performance outcomes? There is a rich body of research in educational effectiveness that has highlighted factors at different levels of the education system that appear to be more closely associated with higher performance. To help build an evidence base, this report maps the data from PISA 2000 to those aspects of school context, school inputs and school processes that have received empirical support in different strands of educational effectiveness research.