期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2005
卷号：14
期号：3 (77)
页码：439-458
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：In this work the results of the PISA research (Programme for International Student Assessment) are discussed with the focus on comparison of results in Finland and Germany. The research showed that Finnish students were exceedingly successful in all three domains of literacy – reading, mathematical and scientific. In contrast to this, the performance of German students was in all three domains significantly below the average of the participating OECD countries. The results indicate that high quality of educational performance is closely connected with equality of educational opportunity. Since the Finnish educational system is built in such a way that comprehensive schools of nine years' duration provide high equality of educational opportunity, a large percentage of Finnish students attain a high quality of educational performance. Also, in Finland high equality of educational opportunity has a significant effect on the lowering of influence of the students' family socio-economic background on their performance. Characteristic of the German educational system is external differentiation of children at an early age, that is after four (in two German states six) years of schooling. External differentiation is performed on the basis of attained school success. Because of the insufficient presence of equality of educational opportunity, schools in Germany are not able to lower the influence of students' family socio-economic background on their performance.
