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Assessing the Quality and Equity of Student Performance in Five Southeast Asian Countries

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What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us?

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It can be argued that education is a major existing global force that has the ability to prevent future destruction of life on planet Earth. While both national economic development and life expectancy are components of the Human Development Index, education is a key component of the index.

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  1. School of Education, The University of Adelaide, Australia

    I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan

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  2. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

    Nordin Abd Razak

  3. Flinders University, Australia

    John P. Keeves

  4. The University of Adelaide, Australia

    I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan

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Darmawan, I.G.N. (2016). Assessing the Quality and Equity of Student Performance in Five Southeast Asian Countries. In: Thien, L.M., Razak, N.A., Keeves, J.P., Darmawan, I.G.N. (eds) What Can PISA 2012 Data Tell Us?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-468-8_9

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