OECD-Pisa

OECD - Pisa league tables

Michael Grove decides to carry out reforms in the education system in areas such as the management of schools and the management of examinations to the subject programs due to the mediocre results in the PISA tests.

Backgro-und wider context

• GCSE grading and more rigorous A-levels.
• Traditional exam assessment.
• Expansion of the academies.
• Behaviour.
• Raising secondary standards.
• National Pupil Database.

Policy

• PISA’s Assessment Framework.
• Pisa's test measures the performance of students and compare it with those of other countries.
• Students’ are tested in 3 areas
• United Kingdom spends 7.6% of its resources for schools.

Curricu-lum changes

+INFO

• Process Model :
• student centered
• independent learners.
• Content model :
• transfer of knowledge from subject experts to new students..

Models & theories

• PISA collects and examines information on education.
• policy makers can ascertain what is being done ‘correctly’ and ‘incorrectly’.
• Cost of education per student.
• Social and economic variations.

Political,social, economicContext

• Teachers are limited by time, resources.
• Finite funds limit provision.
• Data can be manipulated to favour current agenda.
• education system may not use the data for the benefit of students.

Impact