What Makes School Systems Perform? [electronic resource]: Seeing School Systems through the Prism of PISA /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Programme for International Student AssessmentContent Provider
Schleicher, Andreas.
Shewbridge, Claire.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2004.
The report links the results from the OECD PISA 2000 survey to qualitative evidence on important public policy measures in six countries that performed well in PISA. These measures included strategies for educational reform and innovation; issues of governance and resource allocation; national approaches to standard-setting, assessment and system monitoring; the organisation of support systems; the professional development of teachers; and approaches to addressing socio-economic differences in students’ backgrounds. Countries covered: Canada, England, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
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Foreword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Strategies for innovation and reform in the school system; Chapter 3: Devolution of responsibilities to schools; Chapter 4: System monitoring; Chapter 5: Organisation of support systems; Chapter 6: Understanding and application of standards; Chapter 7: Organisation ofeducational processes within the schools; Chapter 8: Integration of non-native students and students with foreign-born parents; Chapter 9: How countries cope with differences between target student performance and its achievement; Chapter 10: Professional development of teachers
Chapter 11: ConclusionsAnnex A: Analytical framework used for the country reports in the multilateral study co-ordinated by the German Institute for International Educational Research
The report links the results from the OECD PISA 2000 survey to qualitative evidence on important public policy measures in six countries that performed well in PISA. These measures included strategies for educational reform and innovation; issues of governance and resource allocation; national approaches to standard-setting, assessment and system monitoring; the organisation of support systems; the professional development of teachers; and approaches to addressing socio-economic differences in students’ backgrounds. Countries covered: Canada, England, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Programme for International Student Assessment.
Competency based education -- OECD countries.
Educational evaluation -- OECD countries.
Educational tests and measurements -- OECD countries.
Programme for International Student Assessment.
Educational tests and measurements
Competency based education
Educational evaluation
Functional literacy
Science
PISA