by Marilyn Achiron Editor, Education and Skills Directorate How school systems respond to immigration has an enormous impact on the economic and social well-being of all members of the communities they serve, whether they have an immigrant background or not. Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration reveals some of the difficulties immigrant students encounter – and some of the contributions they offer – as they settle into their new communities and new...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
A watershed for Scottish education
by David Istance Senior Analyst, Directorate for Education and SkillsThis is a watershed moment for Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, say some of the country’s education stakeholders. They’re talking about the ambitious education reforms that were rolled out in Scotland’s schools five years ago. What better time for a review of the reforms? Improving Schools in Scotland: An OECD Perspective,...
Friday, 11 December 2015
Learning about learning assessments
by Andreas SchleicherDirector, OECD Directorate for Education and SkillsClaudia CostinSenior Director, Education Global Practice, World Bank How do large-scale student assessments, like PISA, actually work? What are the key ingredients that are necessary to produce a reliable, policy relevant assessment of what children and young people know and can do with what they know? A new report commissioned...
Thursday, 10 December 2015
What students don’t want to be when they grow up
by Marilyn AchironEditor, Education and Skills DirectorateWho wants to be a teacher? As this month’s PISA in Focus shows, in many countries the teaching profession is having a hard time making itself an attractive career choice – particularly among boys and among the highest-performing students.PISA 2006 asked students from the 60 participating countries and economies what occupation they expected...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Opening up to Open Educational Resources
by Dirk Van DammeHead of the Innovation and Measuring division, Directorate for Education and SkillsTechnology has a profound impact on our lives. A few days ago, an inmate who spent 44 years behind bars was released from prison and could not believe what he saw on the streets: people with wires in their ears using strange devices to talk to invisible friends. Maybe his confrontation with the modern...
Friday, 27 November 2015
The challenges of widening participation in PISA
by Andreas SchleicherDirector, OECD Directorate for Education and SkillsClaudia CostinSenior Director, Education Global Practice, World BankSince 2000, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has been measuring the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in over 70 countries. PISA does not just examine whether students have learned what they were taught, but also assesses...
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