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There are many reasons to be skeptical about PISA rankings, and their use to compare student achievement or to identify best practices or solutions for educational problems.
The stakes could be highest for students around the world as education systems decide how to respond to the changing shape of global standardized testing.
Are current forms of standardized literacy tests really measuring children’s capacity to read and interact with our rapidly-changing world?
The Shanghai maths method is considered to be one the best in the world for teaching students mathematics, but it doesn’t necessarily translate well into English schools.
Culturally-responsive student assessment and evaluation is key to student success in diverse, globalized societies.
Reports that Australian classrooms are some of the most disruptive in the world are based on the experiences of 15-year-old students alone, and focus on science classes.
News of Canada’s successful immigrant students glosses over important stories of racism, for example the ‘streaming’ of Black males. But without more data beyond Toronto, the story is hard to share.
When students feel accepted and respected by their teachers and peers, they will actively engage in academic and non-academic activities.
Although fewer Australian teens planned on going to university or TAFE than 15 years ago, figures were still higher than the OECD average.
Australian students, on average, reported a poorer sense of belonging at school than the OECD average. But issues with sense of belonging aren’t distributed evenly across the population.
First and second-generation immigrants perform well in many Canadian provinces that take an “accommodation” approach.
But could the influences of Shanghai and Singapore help?
Financial literacy is non-intuitive to the human brain and fundamental to survival today. We should follow British Columbia’s example and make financial literacy mandatory in every grade - across the country.
Standardised tests restrict how well students with disability can do, which reinforces the idea that there are things they can’t do that children without disability can.
NAPLAN is good at measuring some aspects of education, including knowledge difference between demographics, but has not produced a positive effect on student learning outcomes.
How can we improve the PISA standardised tests?
Around a fifth of 15-year-olds in Australia do not have basic financial literacy.
Continuing the status quo will not reduce disadvantage, and over time may even increase it.
… and why our analysis is a much fairer comparison.
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Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Education, Murdoch University; Professor of Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
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Professor of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research
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Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University
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Research group leader, principal investigator, and ATTRACT-fellow, University of Luxembourg
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Deakin University
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton