Education Reforms: The real impact of evidence from international surveys
- - The large international surveys of education are complex in their form and methods, particularly with respect to the interpretation of results and subsequent policy actions
- - Reporting and interpretation of the results of PISA and other transnational surveys have resulted in seriously confused and confusing messages about effective reform
- - Greater attention needs to be paid to where nations are in their educational development and what evidence-based approaches would be most advantageous in improving equity and attainment
Schedule Information:
3:00pm | Tuesday 19th March
Cambridge University Press and Assessment
Professor Montserrat Gomendio
Session Description
Part of the rationale for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation (OECD), funding the development/maintenance of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) international survey was that it would be instrumental in the improvement of education globally. This will be examined head-on, and question if this laudable aim was met. The commitment of the OECD PISA team to high quality in the measurements and probity of administration is clear from the technical development work around the tests, their analysis, and their reporting. Montse Gomendio and Jose Ignacio Wert’s recent book Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence. explores these key matters, looking back over two decades of the operation of PISA.