Education outcomes and contextual data: the potential of international surveys like PISA

Simone BloemOECD Directorate for Education

Programme for Co-operation with Non-member economies

Outline

• Overview of international surveys:

PISA TIMMS PIRLS

• Relevance of PISA for assessing integrity of education systems

• School system characteristics that are positively associated with performance, equity and integrity

• Next steps

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International Surveys

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OECD: PISA

A map of PISA countries and economies

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IAE: TIMMS

IAE: PIRLS

  Reading Mathematics Science

Mean score Mean score Mean scoreMean S.E. Mean S.E. Mean S.E.

OECD          

Estonia 501 (2.6) 512 (2.6) 528 (2.7)Poland 500 (2.6) 495 (2.8) 508 (2.4)Hungary 494 (3.2) 490 (3.5) 503 (3.1)OECD average 493 (0.5) 496 (0.5) 501 (0.5)Latvia 484 (3.0) 482 (3.1) 494 (3.1)Slovenia 483 (1.0) 501 (1.2) 512 (1.1)Czech Republic 478 (2.9) 493 (2.8) 500 (3.0)Slovak Republic 477 (2.5) 497 (3.1) 490 (3.0)Croatia 476 (2.9) 460 (3.1) 486 (2.8)Lithuania 468 (2.4) 477 (2.6) 491 (2.9)Russian Federation 459 (3.3) 468 (3.3) 478 (3.3)Serbia 442 (2.4) 442 (2.9) 443 (2.4)Bulgaria 429 (6.7) 428 (5.9) 439 (5.9)Romania 424 (4.1) 427 (3.4) 428 (3.4)Montenegro 408 (1.7) 403 (2.0) 401 (2.0)Albania 385 (4.0) 377 (4.0) 391 (3.9)

Background data

International surveys deliver…

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Integrity and PISA

School characteristics related to performance and/or equity

Low differentiation of the school system

School characteristics related to performance and/or equity

Accountability

School characteristics related to performance and/or equity

School autonomy

School characteristics related to performance and/or equity

Spending on education

School characteristics related to performance and/or equity

Learning environment

Next steps

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