as described the task of compiling systematic overviews of norwegian and international educational research and make this knowledge available to the authorities and other users could go a long way toward solving this problem however higher spending in lower secondary education beyond a certain basic level is only tenuously linked to better student learning outcomes oecd according to pisa the overall lack of a relationship between resources and outcomes does not show that resources are irrelevant but that their level does not have a systematic impact within the prevailing range and it also depends on that resources are used efficiently