TY - JOUR AU - Villar, Antonio PY - 2017/02/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Performance, Inclusion and Excellence: An Index of Educational Achievements for PISA JF - Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal JA - ASSRJ VL - 4 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.14738/assrj.43.2712 UR - https://journals.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2712 SP - AB - Thispaperproposesanelementarymultidimensionalindexthatsummarizesthreerelevantaspectsoftheeducationalachievements,outofthedataprovidedbythePISAReports.Thethreeaspectsconsideredare:performance,inclusiveness,andexcellence,andwillbeapproximatedbytheaveragescoresandthedistributionofoutcomesinthedifferentlevelsofproficiency.TheIndexofEducationalAchievements(IEA)isthegeometricmeanofthenormalisedvaluesofthosethreevariables.Weanalysethedistributionofthevariablesthatapproachthosethreeaspectsandtheresultingindex,relativetothecorrespondingaveragetestscoresoftheOECDcountries.Thisindexprovidesamuchwiderdiscriminationpowerthanthemerecomparison ER -