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They were widely resonated in the society and picked up by the Estonian president Alar Karis in his annual Independence Day speech on February 24, 2024. He said: “A high place in international rankings is something to be proud of, but zealously comparing ourselves to our neighbours cannot ...
warns PISA boss—England’s schools system is losing ground to the Far East because of an emphasis on rote-learning and a narrowing of the curriculum, says the official behind the Pisa international education rankings’ (TES2018a). The article emphasises the 2015 PISA finding that “…Britain ...
Some low-achieving students have been “systematically excluded” from the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) data for England, a leading academic has warned, undermining the global rankings, which are heavily relied upon as a basis for education policy decisions. This means the 20...
Germany saw its average reading performance fall by 11 points since the last Pisa rankings, although this was from a strong starting point. It was ranked in 11th place in 2015 for reading, but fell to 20th place in 2018. However, German 15-year-olds still scored above the OECD average in...
The PISA scores and country rankings have gained much attention worldwide and affected educational policies in numerous countries. Despite their wide impact, there is, however, limited research information on their association with other measures longitudinally, for example, the predictive effects of ...
The international PISA tests have become “false idols of educational excellence for the world to worship”.They have extraordinary status and influence. Education systems and even nations are judged by test scores and rankings that are assumed to be accurate measures of achievement. A growing...
The two sets of rankings do not always coincide. We report recent changes in terms of both kinds of educational inequalities (gross and of opportunity) in the countries we focus on, and sketch explanations for the observed trends. We also o¤er evidence of the central role played by the ...
Research:London students do less well in Pisa rankings than GCSE He writes: “The unique, rich data that Pisa provides still, in my view, offers enough potential value to justify the resources spent. How useful is the Pisa education research?
PISA results attract public attention mainly because of the country rankings they present in a comparative perspective and of the results' policy implications suggested by the OECD (Araújo et al. 2017). Educational implications can be drawn from statis- tical associations between cognitive performance...