They are the world’s most trusted education league tables. But academics say the Programme for International Student Assessment rankings are based on a ‘profound conceptual error’. So should countries be basing reforms on them?
In less than five months, the most influential set of education test results the world has ever seen will be published. Leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth will be waiting anxiously to find out how they have fared in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa).
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, where knowledge is supplanting traditional industry as the key to future prosperity, education has become the main event in the “global race”. And Pisa, the assessment carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) every three years, has come to be seen as education’s most recognised and trustworthy measure.
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