The Educational Development Index: A Multidimensional Approach to Educational Achievements through PISA

Antonio Villar

No 12.06, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper proposes a multidimensional index that summarizes three relevant aspects of the educational achievements, out of the data provided by the PISA Report, concerning reading abilities of 15-year-old students of 65 countries. The three aspects considered are: performance, equity, and quality. The Educational Development Index (EDI) is the geometric mean of the normalized values of those three variables. We analyze the distribution of the variables that approach those three aspects and the resulting index, relative to the corresponding means of the OECD countries.

Keywords: educations; PISA; multidimensional measurement; performance; equity quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2012-09
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