2. PISA for Schools
Overview
• A PISA-based assessment that:
– Provides internationally comparable data about
student performance
– Provides information about the learning
environment and how it relates to student
performance
– Is aimed at improving school policies and
practices
3. Singapore
Hong Kong-ChinaChinese Taipei
Korea
Macao-China
Japan Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Netherlands
Estonia Finland
Canada
Poland
Belgium
Germany Viet Nam
Austria Australia
IrelandSlovenia
DenmarkNew Zealand
Czech Republic France
United Kingdom
Iceland
LatviaLuxembourg Norway
Portugal ItalySpain
Russian Fed.Slovak Republic United States
Lithuania SwedenHungary
Croatia
Israel
Greece
Serbia Turkey
Romania
Bulgaria
U.A.E.
Kazakhstan
Thailand
Chile
Malaysia
Mexico
410
420
430
440
450
460
470
480
490
500
510
520
530
540
550
560
570
580
Mean score
Student performance
… Shanghai-China is above this level (613)
…12 countries perform below this line
4. PISA
Overview
• Over half a million students…
– representing 28 million 15-year-olds in 65 countries/economies
… takes an internationally agreed 2-hour test…
– Goes beyond testing whether students can
reproduce what they were taught…
… to assess students’ capacity to extrapolate from what they know
and creatively apply their knowledge in novel situations
… and respond to questions on…
– their personal background, their schools
and their engagement with learning and school
5. PISA
Overview
• Representative sample of schools and students in
each participating country
• Identical test questions across all countries –
translated into local languages
• Enables comparison of country-level average scores
• Provides information on what makes schools and
school systems successful across the world
• Conducted every 3 years:
2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, …
6.
7. What makes school systems successful?
Expenditure on education
Slovak Republic
Czech Republic
Estonia
Israel
Poland
Korea
Portugal
New Zealand
Canada
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
Singapore
Finland
Japan
Slovenia Ireland
Iceland
Netherlands
Sweden
Belgium
UK
Australia
Denmark
United States
Austria
Norway
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Viet Nam
Jordan
Peru
Thailand
Malaysia
Uruguay
Turkey
Colombia
Tunisia
Mexico
Montenegro
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Croatia
Lithuania
Latvia
Hungary
R² = 0.37
300
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
0 20 000 40 000 60 000 80 000 100 000 120 000 140 000 160 000 180 000 200 000
Mathematicsperformance
Cumulative expenditure per student (6 to 15) (USD, PPPs)
8. What makes school systems successful?
Alignment of resources with challenges
Hong Kong-China
Brazil
Uruguay
Croatia
Latvia
Chinese Taipei
Thailand
Bulgaria
Jordan
Macao-China
UAE
Argentina
Indonesia
Kazakhstan
Peru
Costa Rica
Montenegro
Tunisia
Qatar
Singapore
Colombia
Malaysia
Serbia
Romania
Viet Nam
USA
Poland
New Zealand
Greece
UK
Estonia
Finland
Slovak Rep.
Luxembourg
Germany
AustriaFrance
Japan
Turkey
Sweden
HungaryAustralia
Israel
Canada
Ireland
Chile
Belgium
SpainDenmark
Switzerland
Iceland
Slovenia
Portugal
Norway
Mexico
Korea
Italy
300
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
700
-0.500.511.5
Mathematicsperformance(scorepoints)
Equity in resource allocation
9. What makes school systems successful?
The value of teaching in society
Australia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia Finland
France
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Latvia
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Spain
Sweden
Alberta (Canada)
England (UK)
Flanders (Belgium)
United States
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Shareofmathematicstopperformers
Percentage of teachers who agree that teaching is valued in society