Improving a Country s Education PISA 2018 Results in 10 Countries by Nuno Crato ISBN 3030590305 978-3030590307

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ISBN 10:  3030590305 

ISBN 13: 978-3030590307

Author: Nuno Crato 

 This open access book compares and contrasts the results of international student assessments in ten countries. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) released the results of its 2018 assessment in December 2019. This book reflects the debates that typically follow the release of these results and focuses on the causes of differences between countries. Such causes include continuous decline in one country, improvement combined with increasing internal inequalities in another country, or rapid improvement in spite of an outdated curriculum in yet another.
In addition, the book discusses a number of general questions: Is knowledge outdated? Are computers taking over and replacing teachers? Are schools killing creativity? Are we adequately preparing the next generation? Are schools failing to educate our kids? The book starts out with a summary of PISA’s evolution and PISA results, and an explanation of the major factors that play a role in changes in countries’ results. The next ten chapters are devoted to ten specific countries, offering a summary of data and an explanation of the major drives for changes in education results for each one. Each chapter includes a short description of the country’s educational system as well as the impact of PISA and other ILSA studies on the country’s educational policies. The chapters also include a timeline of policy measures and main hallmarks of the country’s educational evolution, discussing the impact of these measures on its PISA results. A final reference chapter explains what PISA is, what it measures and how. While highlighting the 2018 results, the book also takes into consideration previous results, as well as long-term initiatives.
This book gathers the contribution of well-known and respected experts in the field. Specialists such as Eric Hanushek, for the US, Tim Oates, for England, Montse Gomendio, for Spain, Gunda Tire, for Estonia, and all other contributors draw on their vast experience and statistical analysis expertise to draw a set of rich country lessons and recommendations that are invaluable for all of those who care about improving a country’s education system.

Table of contents: 

1. Setting up the Scene: Lessons Learned from PISA 2018 Statistics and Other International Student Assessments

2. Australia: PISA Australia—Excellence and Equity?

3. Chile: The Challenge of Providing Relevant Information from ILSA Studies for the Improvement of Educational Quality

4. England: England and PISA—The Long View

5. Estonia: A Positive PISA Experience

6. Finland: Success Through Equity—The Trajectories in PISA Performance

7. Poland: Polish Education Reforms and Evidence from International Assessments

8. Portugal: The PISA Effects on Education

9. Spain: The Evidence Provided by International Large-Scale Assessments About the Spanish Education System: Why Nobody Listens Despite All the Noise

10. Taiwan: Performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment

11. United States: The Uphill Schools’ Struggle

12. Assessment Background: What PISA Measures and How

13. Correction to: Setting up the Scene: Lessons Learned from PISA 2018 Statistics and Other International Student Assessments

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