OECD Survey of Upper Secondary Schools : Technical Report.

Description

Upper secondary education is the final stage of formal education for the majority of students in OECD countries, and as such it is a crucial staging point towards further learning and employment. But how successful are upper secondary schools in preparing young adults for life?The International Survey of Upper Secondary Schools (ISUSS) was established to answer this question. Preliminaries INTRODUCTION I 1 Introduction I 2 History of the ISUSS project I 3 Management of the ISUSS project I 4 Coverage of educational programmes in ISUSS I 5 Countries participating to ISUSS I 6 Design of the survey I 7 ISUSS Questionnaire I 8 Sampling procedures I 9 Weighting procedures II 1 Introduction II 2 Data Flow II 3 Data Entry by the National Project Managers II 4 Data Cleaning II 5 Standardisation of the International Database III 1 the ISUSS database in ACCESS format III 2 The ISUSS database in SPSS format. III 3 Identification of countries schools and programmesIII 4 Missing data III 5 Recoding of some variables III 6 Derived variables III 7 Development and contents of indices and other derived measures III 8 SPSS programmes Annex 1 The school and program'questionnaire Annex 3 Sampling forms Annex 4 Codebook Annex 5 OECD Survey of Upper Secondary Schools Annex 6 Glossary.