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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Where immigrant students succeed
    sub title: a comparative review of performance and engagement in PISA 2003
  title info:
    title: Programme for International Student Assessment
  name:
    name part: Programme for International Student Assessment
  name:
    name part: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: fr
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: 222 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
  abstract: Drawing on data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing information on countries' approaches to the integration of immigrants, it looks at other factors that could influence immigrant students' performance, such as their attitudes to school, their motivation and learning strategies as well as their social background and the language spoken at home, with implications for educational policy.--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Countries' immigration histories and populations -- Performance of immigrant students in PISA 2003 -- Background characteristics, mathematics perfromance and learning environments of immigrant students -- Immigrant students' approaches to learning -- Policies and practices to help immigrant students attain proficiency in the language of instruction.
  note: Also available via World Wide Web.
  note: Available both in print and online.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164).
  subject:
    topic: Students, Foreign
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Education
  identifier: 9264023607
  identifier: http://www.sourceoecd.org/9264023607
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    location:
      url: http://www.sourceoecd.org/9264023607
  record info:
    record content source: TOL
    record creation date: 060613
    record change date: 20151104150319.0
    record identifier: in00002222937