Is Brazilian Education Improving? A Comparative Foray Using Pisa And Saeb Brazil Test Scores

Martin Carnoy (), Tatiana Khavenson (), Leandro Costa (), Izabel Fonseca () and Luana Marotta ()
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Martin Carnoy: National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Izabel Fonseca: Stanford University
Luana Marotta: Stanford University

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Abstract: We use a national Brazilian test (SAEB) and an international test (PISA) to measure whether Brazilian students 13-15 years old improved their mathematics and language learning in1995-2012. We control for part of out-of-school influences by comparing test scores for students with similar family academic resources. Our empirical strategy is descriptive and comparative. We find that Brazilian students have made test score gains during this period on the PISA, but much less so on the SAEB. Gains on the PISA test for advantaged Brazilian students are smaller than among disadvantaged students. This is also the case for the SAEB.

Keywords: educational performance; Brazil; PISA; SAEB; achievement gain; test comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Education / EDU, December 2014, pages 1-31

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