How Pisa’s Standardised Questions Break Down in the Hands of 15-Year-Old Test Takers.
Over the years, PISA tests have been researched from a number of perspectives including their psychometric validity and reliability, their policy impacts, and their reception among educators and policymakers. However, there is still a lack of investigation into the factors that shape students’ responses on the assessment. The few scholars that have forayed into this […]
The Aesthetics of Numbers – Trust and Mistrust
By Christian Lundahl, Örebro University, Sweden @drlundahl www.paristopisa.com In this blog post, Christian Lundahl responds to the keynote presentation by Theodore Porter. This is the first part of a two blog postings. At the conference The Futures and Promises of International Education Assessment, convened by the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies, in Berlin 15-16 September 2016, I […]
The Futures and Promises of International Educational Assessment
By Bryan Maddox and Camilla Addey, Laboratory of International Assessment Studies This blog post reports findings from the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies ESRC Seminar Series, The potentials, politics and practices of international educational assessment. The series aimed to create a space for innovative and in-depth debate on international assessment methodology and key policy issues surrounding international testing, […]
Join the study on the media representation of the PIAAC results
Mary Hamilton, a co-director of the Lab and expert on PIAAC media representation, welcomes researchers to join a study on media PIAAC coverage as the OECD releases the 2016 results of Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Lithuania, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia and Turkey. The OECD will release the results of the second round of PIAAC surveys […]
Promoting Public Knowledge of International Assessments in Education: Media and the Politics of Reception
By Mary Hamilton. How do international assessments engage with the broader societies they are designed to serve and improve? In particular what is the discursive work done by different agencies, interest groups and the media through which the findings become part of public discourse and are translated into usable form in policy arenas? The powerful […]