100 things we’ve learned from PISA

On high-performing or rapidly improving education systems : 

1. Among the countries that showed improvements in average reading performance between 2000 and 2009, most can attribute those gains to large improvements among their lowest-performing students. (from PiF no. 2)

2. In countries where schools have greater autonomy over what is taught and how students are assessed, students tend to perform better. (from PiF no. 9)

3. Greater national wealth or higher expenditure on education does not guarantee better student performance./School systems that perform well in PISA believe that all students can achieve, and give them the opportunity to do so. (from PiF no. 13)

4.  Some countries and economies have shown that improvements in equity can be achieved at the same time as improvements in overall performance, and in a relatively short time. (from PiF no. 25)

5.  Among high-performing countries, differences in performance between schools are generally smaller than those in the average OECD country. (from PiF no. 27)

6.  Strong performers and successful reformers in education share some characteristics: a belief in the potential of all of their students, strong political will, and the capacity of all stakeholders to make sustained and concerted efforts towards improvement. (from PiF no. 34)

7.  How educational resources are allocated across schools is just as important as the amount of resources available. (from PiF no. 44)

8.  Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high levels internationally tend to be those where 26-28 year-olds also perform well. (from PiF no. 45)

9.  Improvement in PISA performance is not related to geography, national wealth or culture. (from PiF no. 47)

10.  The quantity and quality of resources available to schools improved significantly between 2003 and 2012, on average across OECD countries. (from PiF no. 52)

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