A Review of International Large-Scale Assessments in Education: Assessing Component Skills and Collecting Contextual Data

Authors

John Cresswell, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Ursula Schwantner, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)Follow
Charlotte Waters, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)Follow

Publication Date

2015

Subjects

Large scale assessment, Developing countries, Monitoring (Assessment), International programs, Data collection, Evaluation methods

Abstract

The OECD has initiated PISA for Development (PISA-D) in response to the rising need of developing countries to collect data about their education systems and the capacity of their student bodies. This report aims to compare and contrast approaches regarding the instruments that are used to collect data on (a) component skills and cognitive instruments, (b) contextual frameworks, and (c) the implementation of the different international assessments, as well as approaches to include children who are not at school, and the ways in which data are used. It then seeks to identify assessment practices in these three areas that will be useful for developing countries. This report reviews the major international and regional large-scale educational assessments: large-scale international surveys, school-based surveys and household-based surveys. For each of the issues discussed, there is a description of the prevailing international situation, followed by a consideration of the issue for developing countries and then a description of the relevance of the issue to PISA for Development.

Recommended Citation

Cresswell, J., U. Schwantner and C. Waters (2015), A Review of International Large-Scale Assessments in Education: Assessing Component Skills and Collecting Contextual Data, PISA, The World Bank, Washington, D.C./OECD Publishing, Paris.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Copyright Statement

Copyright OECD and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank 2015.

Place of Publication

Paris

Publisher

PISA, The World Bank, Washington, D.C./OECD Publishing

ISBN

ISBN 9789264248342 (print) ISBN 9789264248373 (PDF)

ISSN

ISSN 1990-8539 (print) ISSN 1996-3777 (online)

DOI

10.1787/9789264248373-en