PISA – Create a Test That Gives Policymakers 21st Century Big Data That Matters
PISA has successfully created a test that the world’s leaders pay attention to. But those who have not followed the decades of research and activism on what kind of education matters for a 21st Century child know that the PISA assessment is fast becoming irrelevant. The kinds of things that we test have become easy to digitize and automate so we must change the test.
Around the World in 30 Days – March 2015
C. M. Rubin’s global education report In March, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world. The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence report from PISA was yet another wake up call to the status of gender in education today. I also learned of new global initiatives to make education more accessible and more ecologically sustainable. Additionally, I continued my conversation...
The Global Search for Education: What Israel Did
“The convergence of different studies showing steady improvement indicates that indeed a real change in teaching and learning has occurred and students have improved.”- Michal Beller Israel is among the group of countries that made the largest improvement in all subject matters in the PISA test since the year 2000. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial international survey, aims to evaluate...
The Global Search for Education: Japan
“Ours is now a knowledge based society, which requires education to strengthen higher-ordered inquiry, creativity and communication beyond ready-made knowledge and skills acquisition.” — Professor Manabu Sato Many consider Japanese primary and junior secondary level education to be exceptional, yet Manabu Sato believes the quality of his country’s senior secondary and higher education is questionable....
The Global Search for Education: Finnish Math Lessons
“We believe that students need to develop self-confidence and trust in their ability to do math, and it is the solving of real-life, simpler problems that gives them the ability to engage in more difficult, abstract tasks. Only the procedural understanding acquired in this manner will empower students to solve the test problems.” — Cecilia Villabona Research has sought to understand why more boys than girls...
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