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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international standardized test administered every three years to 15-year-olds to assess their reading, mathematics and science literacy. It is overseen by the OECD and aims to compare student performance between countries. The test focuses on applying knowledge to everyday problems rather than just retrieving facts. While PISA data provides useful information about performance trends, there are concerns about how results are sensationalized in media and misused to inform policy without proper analysis of inequities in education systems.

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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international standardized test administered every three years to 15-year-olds to assess their reading, mathematics and science literacy. It is overseen by the OECD and aims to compare student performance between countries. The test focuses on applying knowledge to everyday problems rather than just retrieving facts. While PISA data provides useful information about performance trends, there are concerns about how results are sensationalized in media and misused to inform policy without proper analysis of inequities in education systems.

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PISA
Programme for International Student Assessment

What is PISA?
An international standardised test
occurring every three years
focusing on 15 year-olds.
It is overseen by OECD with the
Australian Government and all
State and Territory governments
contributing funding.
It assesses students ability to
apply understandings in reading,
mathematics and science to
everyday problems.
(ACER 2015)

OECD, PISA Measuring student success around the worl


d,
2011

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What are the objectives?


PISA provides data from
internationally standardised
tests that enables Australia
to compare and monitor its
performance with that of
other countries (ACER 2015).

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What do the tests look like?


Assessment occurs in three
domains: reading literacy,
mathematical literacy, and
scientific literacy. With each given
more emphasis every nine years
through a larger proportion of test
questions.
(Baird et al 2011)

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Media perspectives
Sensationalised use of PISA
rankings.
No detailed analysis for public
consumption.

ABC News 2013

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Data used for political oneupmanship.

Prof Robert Lingard - what PISA says about poverty 2014


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Media perspectives
New PISA resul
ts show educat
ion decline
(Thompson 20
13)

Dont panic about PI


SA
(Buckingham 2013)

Positive impacts
Test focuses on knowledge
application rather than the retrieval
of information (Baird et al. 2011).
Provides useful information about
changes in Australia's performance
over time (Buckingham 2013).

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Negative impacts
The extrapolation of information
and statistics may skew public
perspectives about educational
achievement (Gorur & Wu 2014,
p.5).
Non-comparable data is used to
inform educational policy (Gorur &
Wu 2014, p.2).
Concentration on worldwide
rankings rather than the causation
of inequities existing within
educational systems.

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Conclusions
PISA collects large quantities of data
in relation to educational
determinants. Such data is open to
distortion and raises concerns when
misrepresentations occur for public
consumption. As Gorur and Wu
(2014, p.2) suggest, aggregations
such as average scores hide more
than they reveal.
Ideals would be for this data to
inform and drive the equal
distribution of funding necessary to
raise equity across schools and
countries and in turn raise standards
for all.

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