Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators - Softcover

Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The 2009 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally. The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it, how education systems operate and the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of students' performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults' chances of employment. New material in this edition includes: first results from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) on teacher practices as well as teacher appraisal and feedback; an analysis of the social benefits of education; information on long-term unemployment and involuntary part-time work among young adults; a review of trends in attainment; data on the incentives to invest in education which show the benefits of education in dollar amounts across OECD countries; and a picture of excellence in education for 15-year-olds, based on findings from the PISA study. The ExcelTM spreadsheets used to create the tables and charts in this book are available via the StatLinks printed in this book. The tables and charts, as well as the complete OECD Online Education Database, are freely available via the OECD Education website at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2009. A condensed version of this publication is also available: Highlights from Education at a Glance 2009. FURTHER READING : Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments: First Results from TALIS (2009); Top of the Class: High Performers in Science in PISA 2006 (2009); Education Today: The OECD Perspective (2009); Education Policy Analysis 2006: Focus on Higher Education (2006)