How does PISA help education reform?

The cases of Germany & Brazil

How does Pisa the program for International Student Assessment help shape education
reform? Every three years Pisa results show what's possible in education and countries are
keen to learn from each other's successes. Just look at what happened in Germany. in 2000
Pisa found that more than one in five students in the country did not reach the baseline level
of proficiency in reading. It also found that differences in performance between poorer and
wealthier students were some of the largest among all OECD countries. That piece of shock
jolted the country's policymakers into action. all-day schools became the rule rather than
the exception. the government introduced binding education standards and created
assessments to measure student progress against those standards. Teachers were encouraged
to invest more in their own professional development. Compared with other OECD
countries Germany move from below-average performance in reading in 2000 to above-
average in 2015, and much of that positive trend stemmed from improvements among the
country's lowest-achieving and disadvantaged students. Half a world away Brazil was the
lowest-scoring country in PISA 2003 assessment. More than half of students scored at or
below the lowest proficiency level in mathematics, while fewer than 1 in 100 scored at the
top level. Brazil set itself the goal of achieving at least the OECD average score in Pisa by
2021. The year before the country celebrates its 200th anniversary of Independence. by
2015 the country's lowest-performing students had improved their mathematics scores by
34 points the equivalent of one full year of schooling, and these gains were achieved even
as Brazil added nearly half a million 15-year-olds to its enrollments in grade 7 or above.
Brazil still has a way to go to reach its performance goal and attain universal enrollment for
15-year-olds, but it measures its progress against Pisa benchmarks. In a hyper-connected
world, the standards of excellence in education are no longer fixed at national borders.
Countries can learn from each other policies can be tweaked and tailored to work in
different contexts. every country and economy can improve student performance and make
its school system more inclusive at the same time. Pisa shows that those outcomes are not
only desirable they're attainable.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD
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