Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Parents,
students, the public and those who run education
systems need to know whether
children are acquiring the necessary skills and knowledge to become tomorrow's
citizens and to continue learning throughout life. International indicators can describe
the levels of achievement in various
countries, to which others might aspire. They can
provide direction for schools' instructional efforts and for students'
learning as well as
insights into curriculum strengths and weaknesses.
The 29 Member countries of the OECD, together with other countries, have
launched the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to
develop such indicators on a regular basis. PISA aims at
assessing how far students
approaching the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge
and skills that are essential for full participation in society.
A New Framework for Assessment, the first
volume in the PISA series, provides
the conceptual framework on which the PISA 2000 assessment is based. It defines the
domains
of reading literacy, mathematics literacy and scientific literacy forming the
core of PISA in terms of the content that students need to acquire,
the processes that
need to be performed, and the contexts in which knowledge and skills are applied. It
also describes the methods developed to ensure that the assessment tasks are valid
across countries, are strong at measuring relevant skills and are based on authentic life
situations.
Measuring Student Knowledge and Skills
A
New Framework for Assessment
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