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On 8 September 2009, the OECD published a report (Education at a glance) which provides comparable and up-to-date indicators on the performance of education systems across OECD countries and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally.
The report’s indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent, how education systems operate and the results achieved. The latter section includes indicators describing a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of students’ performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and adults’ chances of employment.
New material in this edition includes: data on long-term unemployment and involuntary part-time work among young adults; an analysis of the spending choices that countries make between factors such as teacher compensation, instruction time and class sizes; an analysis of teaching practices as well as teacher appraisal and feedback; and a review of excellence in education for 15-year-olds.