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The Limits of Measurement: Misplaced Precision, Phronesis, and Other Aristotelian Cautions for the Makers of PISA, APPR, Etc.
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Meyer, Heinz-Dieter – Comparative Education, 2017
Quantitative measures of student performance are increasingly used as proxies of educational quality and teacher ability. Such assessments assume that the quality of educational practices can be unambiguously quantitatively measured and that such measures are sufficiently precise and robust to be aggregated into policy-relevant rankings like…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Problems, Accuracy, Scholarship
A Call for a More Measured Approach to Reporting and Interpreting PISA Results
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Rutkowski, Leslie; Rutkowski, David – Educational Researcher, 2016
In the current article, we consider the influential position of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and discuss several methodological areas that demonstrate the need for caution when using and interpreting PISA results. We motivate our argument by briefly describing the program's increased influence in educational policy…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Outcome Measures, Data Interpretation, Research Reports
Correcting for Sample Problems in PISA and the Improvement in Portuguese Students' Performance
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Freitas, Pedro; Nunes, Luís Catela; Balcão Reis, Ana; Seabra, Carmo; Ferro, Adriana – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The results of large-scale international assessments such as Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have attracted a considerable attention worldwide and are often used by policy-makers to support educational policies. To ensure that the published results represent the actual population, these surveys go through a thorough scrutiny…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Student Characteristics, Weighted Scores, Evaluation Problems
Cautions about Inferences from International Assessments: The Case of PISA 2009
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Ercikan, Kadriye; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Asil, Mustafa – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Two key uses of international assessments of achievement have been (a) comparing country performances for identifying the countries with the best education systems and (2) generating insights about effective policy and practice strategies that are associated with higher learning outcomes. Do country rankings really reflect the…
Descriptors: Inferences, International Education, International Studies, Case Studies
Why the McKinsey Reports Will Not Improve School Systems
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Coffield, Frank – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
In the last four years McKinsey and Company have produced two highly influential reports on how to improve school systems. The first McKinsey report "How the world's best-performing school systems come out on top" has since its publication in 2007 been used to justify change in educational policy and practice in England and many other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Public Education
Australian Indigenous Students: Addressing Equity Issues in Assessment
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Klenowski, Val – Teaching Education, 2009
This article provides the background and context to the important issue of assessment and equity in relation to Indigenous students in Australia. Questions about the validity and fairness of assessment are raised and ways forward are suggested by attending to assessment questions in relation to equity and culture-fair assessment. Patterns of…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Test Bias