How international tests fail to inform policy

The unsolved mystery of Australia's steady decline in PISA scores

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The unsolved mystery of Australia's steady decline in PISA scores

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The unsolved mystery of Australia's steady decline in PISA scores

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How international tests fail to inform policy: The unsolved mystery of Australia's steady decline in PISA scores.

What do international tests really show about U.S. student ...

However, conclusions like these, which are often drawn from international test comparisons, are oversimplified, frequently exaggerated, and ...

Report urges educators to avoid using international tests to make ...

Report says U.S. policymakers should focus less on international tests and more on how states compare to each other when trying to improve ...

International PISA tests show how evidence-based policy can go ...

... error in 2003. This case illustrates ... PISA is a strong example of the power asymmetries inherent in producing facts to inform policy.

Student Testing: An International Context | Fraser Institute

countries to identify learning needs, inform classroom instruction, develop curriculum, improve teaching, inform school policy, hold schools accountable for ...

The politics of international testing

Traditionally, governments treated information about their education systems and student performance as a domestic policy matter, limiting ...

PISA: Mission Failure - Education Next

... policy advice to governments and encourages peer learning between countries. Initially, PISA testing involved only the rather homogeneous ...

'It Just Isn't Working': PISA Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. ...

The disappointing results from the exam, the Program for International Student Assessment, were announced on Tuesday and follow those from the ...

Poor ranking on international tests misleading about U.S. ...

The report, What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance?, also details how errors in selecting sample populations of ...

Book examines history of standardized tests, why they persist

That requires testing at the beginning of the school year and again at the end to see how much students have learned. We hear about failing ...

The Case for Global Standardized Testing

Most children are excluded from TIMSS, PIRLS, or PISA, and this is especially true in poorer countries. Even if you broaden the range of tests ...

International Test Score Comparisons and Educational Policy

PISA test score error terms are “considerably larger” than the testing agencies acknowledge, making the country rankings unstable. The Shanghai ...

What if the International Tests Are Wrong? | Diane Ravitch's blog

It turns out on examination that the results vary widely from one administration of the test to another. Students in different countries do not ...

The Assessment that Fails to Assess - World Bank

With international tests such as the “Programme for International ... Standardized Tests Are Only a Tool not an Education Policy. In spite ...

Can international exam rankings tell us how to improve American ...

Teachers unions argued that flatlining test scores were an indication that reform efforts with a heavy emphasis on testing had failed, while ...

What International Comparisons Don't Tell Us About U.S. Student ...

Except, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute, comparing student outcomes across countries with vastly different cultures, ...