Trends in Learning OutcomesAndreas Schleicher, Jakarta, March 2017
PISA in brief - 2015
In 2015, over half a million students…- representing 28 million 15-year-olds in 72 countries/economies
… took an internationally agreed 2-hour test…- Goes beyond testing whether students can reproduce what they were taught to assess students’ capacity to
extrapolate from what they know and creatively apply their knowledge in novel situations- Total of 390 minutes of assessment material
… and responded to questions on…- their personal background, their schools, their well-being and their motivation
Parents, principals, teachers and system leaders provided data on:- school policies, practices, resources and institutional factors that help explain performance differences- 89,000 parents, 93,000 teachers and 17,500 principals responded
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Japan (15.3%); 174k
Germany (10.6%); 79k
Viet Nam (8.3%); 72k
United Kingdom (10.9%); 68k
Korea (10.6%); 60k
France (8.0%); 59k
Russia (3.7%); 42k
Canada (12.4%); 41k
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Switzerland (9.8%)
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Number of years in pre-primary education among students attending socio-economically …
Attendance at pre-primary school by schools’ socio-economic profile
Table II.6.51
OECD average
Lessons f
rom
PIS
A
Low impact on outcomes
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Money pits
Must haves
Low hanging fruits
Quick wins
Commitment to universal achievement
Gateways, instructional systems
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Capacity at the point of delivery
Attracting, developing and retaining high quality teachers and school leaders and a work organisation in which they can use their potential
Instructional leadership and human resource management in schools
Keeping teaching an attractive profession
System-wide career development …
The ‘productivity’ puzzle
Making learning time productive so that students can build their academic, social and emotional
skills in a balanced way
Learning time and science performanceFigure II.6.23
Finland
Germany Switzerland
Japan Estonia
Sweden
NetherlandsNew Zealand
Macao(China)
Iceland
Hong Kong(China) Chinese Taipei
Uruguay
Singapore
PolandUnited States
Israel
Bulgaria
Korea
Russia Italy
Greece
B-S-J-G (China)
Colombia
Chile
Mexico
Brazil
CostaRica
Turkey
MontenegroPeru
QatarThailand
UnitedArab
Emirates
Tunisia
Dominican Republic
R² = 0.21
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500
550
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Total learning time in and outside of school
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OECD average
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Developing Teaching
as a profession
Recruit top candidates into the profession
Support teachers in continued
development of practice
Retain and recognise effective teachers –path for growth
Improve the
societal view of
teaching as a
profession
Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status3
5
Implementing highly effective teacher policy and practice
Mean mathematics performance, by school location,
after accounting for socio-economic status36
Teachers' perceptions of the value of teaching in society
Percentage of lower secondary education teachers who "agree" or "strongly agree" that teaching is a
valued profession in society
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
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Items are ranked in descending order, based on the percentage of teachers who strongly agree or agree that teaching is a valued profession in society.
Mean mathematics performance, by school location,
after accounting for socio-economic statusFig II.3.33
7
Relationship between the perceived value of the teaching
profession and the share of PISA top performers (math)
Relationship between lower secondary education teachers' views on the value of their profession in society and the
share of top mathematics performers in PISA 2012
Australia
Brazil
BulgariaChile
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia FinlandFrance
IcelandIsrael
Italy
Japan
Korea
Latvia
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
RomaniaSerbia
Singapore
Slovak Republic
SpainSweden
Alberta (Canada)
England (United
Kingdom)
Flanders (Belgium)
United States
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Share
of
math
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atics
top p
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orm
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Percentage of teachers who agree that teaching is valued in society
External forces
exerting pressure and
influence inward on
an occupation
Internal motivation and
efforts of the members
of the profession itself
38 Professionalism
Professionalism is the level of autonomy and internal regulation exercised by members of an
occupation in providing services to society
Policy levers to teacher professionalism
Knowledge base for teaching (initial education and incentives for professional development)
Autonomy: Teachers’ decision-making power over their work (teaching content, course offerings, discipline practices)
Peer networks: Opportunities for exchange and support needed to maintain high standards of teaching (participation in induction,
mentoring, networks, feedback from direct observations)
Teacher
professionalism
Teacher professionalism
Autonomy: Teachers’ decision-making power over their work (teaching content, course offerings, discipline practices)
Knowledge base for teaching (initial education and incentives for professional development)
Peer networks: Opportunities for exchange and support needed to maintain high standards of teaching (participation in induction,
mentoring, networks, feedback from direct observations)
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Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after accounting for socio-economic status Fig II.3.34141 TALIS Teacher professionalism index
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
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ss indiv
idual
students
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Percentage of lower secondary teachers who report doing the following activities at least once per month
Teacher co-operation
Exchange and co-ordination
Teachers Self-Efficacy and Professional Collaboration
11.40
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Observe other teachers’ classes and provide feedback
Engage in joint activities across different classes
Take part in collaborative professional learning
Less frequently
Morefrequently
Student-teacher ratios and class sizeFigure II.6.14
CABA (Argentina)
Jordan
Viet Nam
Poland
United States
Chile
Denmark
Hungary
B-S-G-J(China)
Turkey
Georgia
ChineseTaipei
Mexico
Russia
Albania
Hong Kong(China)
Japan
Belgium
Algeria
Colombia
Peru
Macao(China)
Switzerland
Malta
Dominican Republic
Netherlands
Singapore
Brazil
Kosovo
Finland
Thailand
R² = 0.25
5
10
15
20
25
30
15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
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den
t-te
ach
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rati
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Class size in language of instruction
High student-teacher ratios
and small class sizes
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and large class sizes
OECD
average
OE
CD
ave
rage
Lessons f
rom
PIS
A
Low impact on outcomes
High impact on outcomes
Low feasibility High feasibility
Money pits
Must haves
Low hanging fruits
Quick wins
Commitment to universal achievement
Gateways, instructional systems
Capacity at point of delivery
Incentive structures and accountability
Resources where they yield most
A learning systemCoherence
Governance, incentives, accountability, knowledge management
Aligned incentive structures
For students How gateways affect the strength, direction, clarity and nature of the incentives
operating on students at each stage of their education
Degree to which students have incentives to take tough courses and study hard
Opportunity costs for staying in school and performing well
For teachers Make innovations in pedagogy and/or organisation
Improve their own performance and the performance of their colleagues
Pursue professional development opportunities that lead to stronger pedagogical practices
A balance between vertical and lateral accountability
Effective instruments to manage and share knowledge and spread innovation – communication within the system and with stakeholders around it
A capable centre with authority and legitimacy to act
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
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0
10
20
30
40
50
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%Percentage-point difference between advantaged and disadvantaged schools
Index of school autonomy (%)
Index of school autonomyby schools’ socio-economic status
Figure II.4.7
Disadvantaged schools have more school auton
omy
Advantaged schools have more sc
hool autonomy
Public and private schools
Across OECD countries, 84% of students attend public schools, 12% government-dependent private schools and 4% independent private schools
PISA generally observes no systematic net performance differences
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After accounting for socio-economic status Before accounting for socio-economic status
Science performance in public and private schoolsFigure II.4.14
Students in private schools perform better
Students in public schools perform better
Lessons f
rom
PIS
A
Low impact on outcomes
High impact on outcomes
Low feasibility High feasibility
Money pits
Must haves
Low hanging fruits
Quick wins
Commitment to universal achievement
Gateways, instructional systems
Capacity at point of delivery
Incentive structures and accountability
Resources where they yield most
A learning systemCoherence
Clear ambitious goals that are shared across the system and aligned with high stakes gateways and instructional systems
Well established delivery chain through which curricular goals translate into instructional systems, instructional practices and student learning (intended, implemented and achieved)
High level of metacognitive content of instruction
The kind of things that are easy to teach are
now easy to automate, digitize or outsource
35
40
45
50
55
60
65
70
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2006 2009
Routine manual
Nonroutine manual
Routine cognitive
Nonroutine analytic
Nonroutine interpersonal
Mean task input in percentiles of 1960 task
Effective teaching
A well-structured, clear and informative lesson on a topic including teachers’ explanations, classroom debates and students’ questions pays
off, as does adaptive instruction
Inquiry-based science instruction (e.g. experimentation and hands-on activities) tends to relate negatively to performance but positively to
student engagement and career expectations
Teaching and learning strategies inmathematics around the world
53Source: Figure 1.2
R² = 0.10
More teacher-directed
instructionTeaching
More memorisation
Le
ar
nin
g
OECD average
More elaboration
More student-oriented
instruction
Are East Asian education systems really so
traditional?
Chinese Taipei
Vietnam
Macao-China Korea
Hong-Kong China
SingaporeJapan
Shanghai- China
Ireland
Hungary
France
Croatia
United Kingdom
AustraliaNew Zealand
Uruguay
Israel
Memorisation most frequently used compared to elaboration strategies
Teacher-directed instruction most
frequently used compared to student-oriented
instruction
R² = 0.24
0.80
1.00
1.20
300 400 500 600 700 800
Teacher-directed strategies are related withhigher solution rates (OECD average)
Source: Figure 1.4Difficulty on the PISA scale 54
Greater success
Less success
Easy problem
Difficult problem
Odds ratio
Memorisation is less useful as problems become more difficult (OECD average)
R² = 0.81
0.70
1.00
300 400 500 600 700 800
Difficulty of mathematics item on the PISA scale
Source: Figure 4.355
Difficult problem
Easy problem
Greater success
Less success
Odds ratio
Control strategies are always helpful but less so as problems become more difficult (OECD average)
R² = 0.31
0.95
1.20
300 400 500 600 700 800
Difficulty of mathematics item on the PISA scale
Source: Figure 5.256
Difficult problem
Greater success
Less success
Easy problem
Odds ratio
Elaboration strategies are more useful as problems become more difficult (OECD average)
R² = 0.82
0.80
1.50
300 400 500 600 700 800
Difficulty of mathematics item on the PISA scaleSource: Figure 6.2
57
Difficultproblem
Greater success
Less success
Easy problem
Odds ratio
Lessons f
rom
PIS
A
Low impact on outcomes
High impact on outcomes
Low feasibility High feasibility
Money pits
Must haves
Low hanging fruits
Quick wins
Commitment to universal achievement
Gateways, instructional systems
Capacity at point of delivery
Incentive structures and accountability
Resources where they yield most
A learning systemCoherence
Schooling today Schooling tomorrow
Some students learn at high levels
All students learnat high levels
Uniformity Embracing diversity
Curriculum-centred Learner-centred
Learning a place Learning an activity
Prescription Informed profession
Delivered wisdom User-generated wisdom
Provision Outcomes
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