Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators

                                               
This annual publication is the authoritative source for accurate and relevant information on the state of education around the world.Featuring more than 150 charts, 300 tables, and over 100 000 figures, it provides data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in the OECD’s 34 member countries, as well as a number of partner countries.
It results from a long-standing, collaborative effort between OECD governments, the experts and institutions working within the framework of the OECD Indicators of Education Systems (INES) programme and the OECD Secretariat.
What's new in the 2014 edition?

• New indicators on private institutions, on what it takes to become a teacher, and on the availability of, and participation in, professional development activities for teachers.
• Data from the 2012 Survey of Adult Skills, on attainment, employment, intergenerational education mobility, earnings, and social outcomes related to skills proficiency.
• Data from the 2013 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the 2012 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in several indicators.
• Analysis of the impact of the recent economic crisis on the interplay among educational attainment, employment, earnings and public finance.
• More in-depth information related to upper secondary completion rates and the types and use of student loans.
• For the first time, data from Colombia and Latvia.
  

Update of Employment and Educational Attainment Indicators - January 2015

• The Education at a Glance Interim Report:  Update of Employment and Educational Attainment indicators. This publication is based on the latest data collection from the INES Network on Labour Market, Economic and Social Outcomes of Learning (LSO), collected in the first half of 2014. It is an update of the series published in Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators, released in September 2014.

If recent surveys are any indicator, cheating and plagiarism are on the rise. As teachers, however, we might be able to reverse that trend by teaching our students to take good notes. Included: Five fun lessons that teach needed note-taking skills.

• In 2002, a national survey of 4,500 high school students found that 75 percent of them engaged in cheating and more than half plagiarized content they found on the Internet.
• In a recent survey of teachers, 100 percent of the teachers have caught students cheating.
• In a 1998 survey of students, four out of five top students admitted cheating.

From the Ed World Archive Teaching Study Skills: Ideas That Work! Three educators share their tips and tricks to improve study skills! I Was There When High School Research Papers Came Alive! English teacher Ernie Beachey talks about his creative research paper project. Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom A printable Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism. Cheating in the Classroom: How to Prevent It (and How to Handle It If It Happens) Classroom management expert Howard Seeman offers easy-to-apply advice. What Can We Do to Curb Student Cheating? How can teachers combat cheating? Included: Teacher-tested tips. I Read It on the Internet! -- Teaching About Web Literacy Teach your kids which Web sites to trust. Who Said That? How to Cite Electronic Resources Four mini style guides students can save -- and use!

Students have always copied text into their research papers verbatim. Some have plagiarized entire term papers. It seems, however, that the issues of copying and plagiarism are getting more notice now than ever. With the advent of the Internet, students seem to be more tempted than ever to "borrow" sentences, paragraphs, and entire pages.
Could it be that this apparent spike in cheating has a very basic root cause? Could it be that students do not know how to take notes, how to summarize or paraphrase text, or how to do a research paper correctly? Could it be that student cheating is actually a reflection of the need for patient teaching of those skills?
This week, Education World offers five simple lessons to help you instruct students and to provide practice in the skills of note taking and the associated skills of summarizing and paraphrasing.
- See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson322.shtml#sthash.T5WTXWCL.dpuf

If recent surveys are any indicator, cheating and plagiarism are on the rise. As teachers, however, we might be able to reverse that trend by teaching our students to take good notes. Included: Five fun lessons that teach needed note-taking skills.

• In 2002, a national survey of 4,500 high school students found that 75 percent of them engaged in cheating and more than half plagiarized content they found on the Internet.
• In a recent survey of teachers, 100 percent of the teachers have caught students cheating.
• In a 1998 survey of students, four out of five top students admitted cheating.

From the Ed World Archive Teaching Study Skills: Ideas That Work! Three educators share their tips and tricks to improve study skills! I Was There When High School Research Papers Came Alive! English teacher Ernie Beachey talks about his creative research paper project. Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom A printable Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism. Cheating in the Classroom: How to Prevent It (and How to Handle It If It Happens) Classroom management expert Howard Seeman offers easy-to-apply advice. What Can We Do to Curb Student Cheating? How can teachers combat cheating? Included: Teacher-tested tips. I Read It on the Internet! -- Teaching About Web Literacy Teach your kids which Web sites to trust. Who Said That? How to Cite Electronic Resources Four mini style guides students can save -- and use!

Students have always copied text into their research papers verbatim. Some have plagiarized entire term papers. It seems, however, that the issues of copying and plagiarism are getting more notice now than ever. With the advent of the Internet, students seem to be more tempted than ever to "borrow" sentences, paragraphs, and entire pages.
Could it be that this apparent spike in cheating has a very basic root cause? Could it be that students do not know how to take notes, how to summarize or paraphrase text, or how to do a research paper correctly? Could it be that student cheating is actually a reflection of the need for patient teaching of those skills?
This week, Education World offers five simple lessons to help you instruct students and to provide practice in the skills of note taking and the associated skills of summarizing and paraphrasing.
- See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson322.shtml#sthash.T5WTXWCL.dpuf