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Standards and working conditions 2 February 2021 OECD Report: COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that teachers cannot be substituted by on-line learning
Education International has commented on the release of the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), entitled ‘Positive, High-achieving Students? What Schools and Teachers Can Do’. It has reaffirmed that teachers are and cannot be replaced by education technologies.
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Climate action and literacy 19 November 2020 “PISA 2018 in Scotland: Something to sing about!”, by Larry Flanagan.
Larry Flanagan
There is a football chant that is used to taunt opposing fans, most often when their team is losing, which goes, “You only sing when you’re winning…”, so in that vein let me reflect on the recent place of Scotland in the PISA 2018 results on Global Competencies!
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 October 2020 Scottish students show positive attitudes towards others in OECD PISA 6
According to the recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Volume 6 report, Scottish students are among the top achievers in the area of understanding and appreciating the perspective of others based on responses. They have positive attitudes towards immigrants and do well...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 October 2020 PISA 2018 Volume 6: ‘Are Students Ready to Thrive in an Interconnected World?’
The OECD PISA Volume 6 report, released today, broadens considerably the criteria for assessment and international comparisons of PISA. For the first time, the report, based on data collected in 2018, examines students’ global competence. It looks at the ability of 15-year old students to consider local, global, and inter-cultural...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 February 2020 “PISA, well-being, and teacher unions”, by David Edwards.
David Edwards
Many of the headlines when the OECD releases its PISA reports focus on country rankings. While we have consistently critiqued the league table approach there is much in these reports that is useful to educators and their unions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 December 2019 PISA results highlight pressures in education systems
The recently published Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results have led education unions to reflect on school systems and the future of education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 December 2019 PISA 2018: between performance and well-being
The long-awaited PISA 2018 study is out today, with new data on students’ performance and a new focus on well-being and sustainable development.
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Union growth 12 July 2018 A world class education by the man who should know, by John Bangs
John Bangs
A review of “World Class” by Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education and Skills at the OECD.
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Leading the profession 13 March 2018 #WDR2018 Reality Check #18: “Behind the Scores; Myths on Korean education” by Hyunsu Hwang
Hyunsu Hwang
The “Forward” of the 2018 World Development Report (WDR) by the World Bank Group’s president, Jim Yong Kim, shocked me. It starts: “Education and learning raise aspirations, set values, and ultimately enrich lives. The country where I was born, the Republic of Korea, is a good example of how education...
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Union renewal and development 21 November 2017 PISA adds a new dimension to its assessment results
Learning often happens in collaboration - implications of this for the performance of students are the subject of the latest addition of the PISA study to understanding what makes quality education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 August 2017 Idiocy for All and the Rise of International Large Scale Educational Assessments
Amy Marcetti Topper, Iveta Silova, Gustavo E. Fischman
Almost any education-related topic seems to turn into an overheated debate, provoking very strong gut reactions and diminishing any hope for productive discussions that engage in careful analysis of contrasting perspectives and forms of evidence. This is certainly the case with International Large Scale Educational Assessments (ILSEAs), like PISA or...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 July 2017 Teachers, “Smart People” and Flawed Statistics: What I want to tell my Dad about PISA Scores and Economic Growth
Jeremy Rappleye, Hikaru Komatsu
Sullen Teachers, “Smart People”, and Free Lunch.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 May 2017 It’s time to look carefully at where testing fails to make the grade
Steffen Handal
Teacher unions have for a long time expressed concern about the growing scope of international tests. In this post, I will point out some of the reasons why Union of Education Norway is especially critical to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). I will also point to some alternative...
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Leading the profession 3 May 2017 Review. The Global Education Race. Sellar, Thompson and Rutkowski. Brush Education Inc 2017.
Martin Henry, John Bangs
The number of countries which take part in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is now well over double the number of OECD member countries. If there is one thing which demonstrates just how far PISA has pulled in front of other global assessments of education, it is...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 April 2017 PISA results look into complexity of students’ well-being
The latest set of results from the 2015 PISA study published today focuses on students’ well-being and the role families, teachers and the school community play in achieving quality education for all.
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Standards and working conditions 9 November 2012 Evaluation – a necessary evil?Evaluation – a necessary evil?
Sylvain Marois