Transcript Policy Questions 2 Willms Tramonte

The Contextual
Questionnaires
for the
PISA for Development
Study
Follow up policy questionsday 2
The challenges in enhancing existing PISA
questionnaires
 Maintain the core PISA content
 Extend individual measures where
necessary
 Add content relevant to the specific
educational policies in the partner
countries
 Consider the capacity to analyze and
report complex hierarchical data at the
country level
PISA policy products
PISA offers three types of policy-relevant
products:
 Indicators that monitor the functioning,
productivity and equity of education
systems (Education at a Glance);
 Factors related to educational
effectiveness;
 A database for comparative and policyoriented analyses.
PISA Policy Themes
selecting and grouping students;
resources invested in education;
school governance, assessments and
accountability;
the quality of learning environments
Selecting and grouping
students
PISA contextual questionnaires collect information on:
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children language and early schooling experiences
age of entry to school
grade repetition
special schools and school programs
selection into different types of schools
ability grouping within classrooms and within schools
parental choice of schools and school programs
funding arrangements for private schools or charter
schools.
Resources invested in
education
 Policy questions inquire about the
effects of financial, human, material,
and time resources.
 Feeding intervention programs
 Incentives for families to increase
school attendance
 Contract of performance for
resource allocation
 Teacher training
 School infrastructure
School governance
Questions about school governance are
concerned with how student performance is
related to:
 school autonomy
 school choice
 private and public schooling
 principal leadership
 parental involvement
Quality of learning
environments
This theme pertains to truancy and
school climate.
 Special educational needs and
implementation of special education
 School violence
 School safety
 School safety for girls
 When considering the enhancement of
the PISA contextual questionnaires to
make them more relevant to partner
countries, we need to consider the
relative importance of these themes and
how the current scales can be expanded.
Questions on the implementation of national
policies/interventions and on their effects on
student performance
 Structural/restructure reforms:
 ECE; system and grades
 Language policies: Bilingual Law or English as
language of instruction
 Curricular reforms or major revisions to
outdated curriculum
 Subject Inspection->systemic inspection
 Teacher staffing in rural and remote areas
 Allocation of infrastructural and educational
resources
The data you need to answer these
questions
Macro trend indicators
School level trend indicators
Longitudinal micro level data
Cross-sectional data
Participation in PfD  synergies with national
monitoring systems and data collection