ENGD07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Programme For International Student Assessment, Andreas Schleicher
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Open letter to director of the oecd"s programme for international student assessment. Pisa results are anxiously awaited by governments, education ministers, and the editorial boards of newspapers, and are cited authoritatively in countless policy reports. Pisa results have begun to reply influence educational practices in many countries. As a result of pisa, countries are fixing and modifying their education systems in the hopes of improving their rankings. Lack of progress on pisa has led to declarations of crisis and pisa shock in many countries, followed by calls for resignations, and far-reaching reforms according to pisa rules or standards. Academics are frankly concerned about the negative consequences of the pisa rankings. While standardised testing has been used in many nations for decades (despite serious reservations about its validity and reliability), pisa has contributed to an escalation in such testing and a dramatically increased reliance on quantitative measures.
