FRASER INSTITUTE -- In countries such as Canada, increased education spending unlikely to improve student test scores
I ncrease d education spending in poor countries helps improve student test scores but in richer countries such as Canada, spending increases have little effect on test scores, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non - partisan Canadian public policy think - tank . “ As poor countries get richer and they s pend more on education their test scores rise , but a s rich countries get richer, their scores remain relatively stable , which means spending more money on education in Canada will likely have little effect on test scores ,” said John Krieg , p rofessor of e conomics at Western Washington University and author of International Student Assessment: Performance and Spending . Th e study compares results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) , an international series of tests commonly used to measure academic performance , from 72 countries from 2000 to 2015, the latest year of available ...