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Creative Minds in Action: Students' Imagination and Ideas in Storytelling, Design and Problem Solving Tasks on the PISA Test. OECD Education Policy Perspectives. No. 120
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Sofia Bertolaja; Said Ettejjari; Natalie Foster – OECD Publishing, 2025
Recognising the importance of developing creativity in education, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an assessment of creative thinking for the first time in its 2022 cycle -- with the results summarised in the PISA 2022 Results (Volume III) report. While that report focused on comparing countries' performance on…
Descriptors: Imagination, Concept Formation, Story Telling, Design
The International State of Research on Measurement of Competency in Higher Education
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Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Shavelson, Richard J.; Kuhn, Christiane – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
With the Program for International Student Assessment and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study surveys, competency assessment became an important policy instrument in the school sector; only recently has international competency measurement gained attention in higher education with the Assessment of Higher Education Learning…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Competence, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)
Parental Involvement in Selected PISA Countries and Economies. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 73
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Borgonovi, Francesca; Montt, Guillermo – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Studies have highlighted the beneficial effects of parental involvement in children's educational lives. Few studies, however, analyse parental involvement in a cross-national perspective and few evaluate a wide array of forms of involvement. In 2009, 14 countries and economies implemented the parental questionnaire option in the PISA 2009 cycle.…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Comparative Study on Romanian School Science Curricula and the Curriculum of TIMSS 2007 Testing
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Ciascai, Liliana – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The results of Romanian school students in Science PISA and TIMSS testings have been and continue to be systematically slack. In the present paper we intend to do a comparative analysis of Science curriculum TIMSS 2007 and Romanian Science school curricula of 4th and 8th grades. This analysis, based on Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive domain,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4
PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line. Digital Technologies and Performance. Volume VI
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
This sixth volume of the Programme for International Student Assessment 2009 (PISA 2009) results explores students' use of information technologies to learn. For PISA 2009, the framework for reading literacy has been developed to encompass reading electronic texts. This has led to an expansion of the description of text types to take account of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Reading Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Reading Instruction
Problem Solving in the PISA and TIMSS 2003 Assessments. Technical Report. NCES 2007-049
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Dossey, John A.; McCrone, Sharon S.; O'Sullivan, Christine – US Department of Education, 2006
In 2003, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) included a special focus on problem-solving. This report reviews the problem-solving aspects of each study in order to compare and contrast the nature of problem solving in each assessment. The report's authors develop…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis