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Download full textSchleicher, Andreas – Online Submission, 2016
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) provides a framework in which over 80 countries collaborate to build advanced global metrics to assess the knowledge, skills and character attributes of the students. The design of assessments poses major conceptual and technical challenges, as successful learning. Beyond a sound…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Educational Methods, Educational Policy, Minimum Competency Testing
Direct linkFinkel, Ed – District Administration, 2012
If the results of the most recent international achievement tests were graded on a curve, U.S. students probably would rank somewhere in the B range. They placed 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in mathematics among 70 countries whose 15-year-olds participated in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Global Approach, Educational Practices
Schleicher, Andreas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
International educational benchmarks make disappointing reading for Americans, but they also indicate a way forward. PISA results show strong performance is possible. Whether in Japan, Korea, Finland or Canada, many countries display strong overall performance and show socioeconomic background doesn't determine results. Some countries show that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Benchmarking, Global Approach
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2008
No longer content with the patchwork quilt of assessments used to measure states' K-12 performance, top policy groups are pushing states toward international benchmarking as a way to better prepare students for a competitive global economy. The National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the standards-advocacy…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Global Approach, Student Evaluation, Achievement Tests
Achieve, Inc., 2010
This appendix accompanies the report "Taking the Lead in Science Education: Forging Next-Generation Science Standards. International Science Benchmarking Report," a study conducted by Achieve to compare the science standards of 10 countries. This appendix includes the following: (1) PISA and TIMSS Assessment Rankings; (2) Courses and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Research Skills
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2008
In 1999, Ministers responsible for school education agreed to the new set of "National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century," with the aim of providing high quality schooling in Australia which would secure for students the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and values for a productive and rewarding life. As a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2007
In 1999, Ministers responsible for school education agreed to the new set of "National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century," with the aim of providing high quality schooling in Australia which would secure for students the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and values for a productive and rewarding life. As a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2005
In 1999 Ministers responsible for school education agreed to the new set of "National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century," with the aim of providing high quality schooling in Australia which would secure for students the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and values for a productive and rewarding life. As a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2006
In 1999 Ministers responsible for school education agreed to the new set of "National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century," with the aim of providing high quality schooling in Australia which would secure for students the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and values for a productive and rewarding life. As a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Program Descriptions, Program Development
