Economic Development Achievement Award 2009 presented by JCEG

Educational policy around the world has increasingly focused on improving aggregate student series 7 exam achievement as a means to increase economic growth. In the last two decades, attention has focused especially on the importance of achievement in science and mathematics. Yet, the policy commitments involved have not been based on research sat exam evidence. The expansion of cross-national achievement testing in recent decades makes ptcb exam possible longitudinal analyses of the effects of achievement on growth, and we carry out such analyses here. Regression analyses appear to show some effects of science and mathematics achievement on growth, but psat exam these effects are due mainly to the inclusion of the four "Asian Tigers" and are not consistent over time. These empirical findings call into question educational policy discourse that emphasizes strong causal links between achievement and growth.