@article{Villar_2017, title={Performance, Inclusion and Excellence: An Index of Educational Achievements for PISA}, volume={4}, url={https://journals.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2712}, DOI={10.14738/assrj.43.2712}, abstractNote={Thispaperproposesanelementarymultidimensionalindexthatsummarizesthreerelevantaspectsoftheeducationalachievements,outofthedataprovidedbythePISAReports.Thethreeaspectsconsideredare:performance,inclusiveness,andexcellence,andwillbeapproximatedbytheaveragescoresandthedistributionofoutcomesinthedifferentlevelsofproficiency.TheIndexofEducationalAchievements(IEA)isthegeometricmeanofthenormalisedvaluesofthosethreevariables.Weanalysethedistributionofthevariablesthatapproachthosethreeaspectsandtheresultingindex,relativetothecorrespondingaveragetestscoresoftheOECDcountries.Thisindexprovidesamuchwiderdiscriminationpowerthanthemerecomparison}, number={3}, journal={Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal}, author={Villar, Antonio}, year={2017}, month={Feb.} }