1 1 University of Minnesota March, 22 2009 Bringing Lessons from the World’s Top Performers to Minnesota This session 1. There is nowhere to hide Why the yardstick for educational success is no longer improvement by national standards but the best performing systems internationally 2. Benchmarking education internationally Where we are – and where we can be – Where the US and other countries stand in terms of quality and equity of schooling outcomes – What the best performing countries show can be achieved 3. How we can get there Some policy levers that emerge from
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This session
1. There is nowhere to hide Why the yardstick for educational success is
no longer improvement by national standards but the best performing systems internationally
2. Benchmarking education internationally Where we are – and where we can be
– Where the US and other countries stand in terms of quality and equity of schooling outcomes
– What the best performing countries show can be achieved
3. How we can get there Some policy levers that emerge from
international comparisons
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There is nowhere to hideThe yardstick for success is no longer improvement by national
standards but the best performing education systems
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Rising higher education qualifications seem generally not to have led to an “inflation” of the labour-market value of qualifications.
In all but three of the 20 countries with available data, the earnings benefit increased between 1997 and 2003, in Germany, Italy and Hungary by between 20% and 40%
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Moving targetsFuture supply of high school graduates
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How the demand for skills has changedEconomy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input
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The dilemma of schools:The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones that are easiest to digitise, automate and outsource
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Coverage of world economy 77%81%83%85%86%87%
OECD’s PISA assessment of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds
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in terms of a student’s:
Scientific knowledge and use/extrapolation of that knowledge to…
… identify scientific issues, … explain scientific phenomena, and … draw evidence-based conclusions about
science-related issues
Understanding of the characteristic features of science as a form of human knowledge and enquiry
Awareness of how science and technology shape our material, intellectual and cultural environments
Willingness to engage with science-related issues
For exampleWhen reading about a health issue, can students separate scientific from non-scientific aspects of the text, apply knowledge and justify personal decisions ?
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in terms of a student’s:
Scientific knowledge and use/extrapolation of that knowledge to…
… identify scientific issues, … explain scientific phenomena, and … draw evidence-based conclusions about
science-related issues
Understanding of the characteristic features of science as a form of human knowledge and enquiry
Awareness of how science and technology shape our material, intellectual and cultural environments
Willingness to engage with science-related issues
For exampleCan students distinguish between evidence-based explanations and personal opinions ?
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in terms of a student’s:
Scientific knowledge and use/extrapolation of that knowledge to…
… identify scientific issues, … explain scientific phenomena, and … draw evidence-based conclusions about
science-related issues
Understanding of the characteristic features of science as a form of human knowledge and enquiry
Awareness of how science and technology shape our material, intellectual and cultural environments
Willingness to engage with science-related issues
For exampleCan individuals recognise and explain the role of technologies as they influence a nation’s economy ? Or are they aware of environmental changes and the effects of those changes on economic/social stability ?
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Scientific knowledge and use/extrapolation of that knowledge to…
… identify scientific issues, … explain scientific phenomena, and … draw evidence-based conclusions about
science-related issues
Understanding of the characteristic features of science as a form of human knowledge and enquiry
Awareness of how science and technology shape our material, intellectual and cultural environments
Willingness to engage with science-related issues
Interest in science, support for scientific enquiry, responsibility for the environment
This addresses the value students place on science, both in terms of topics and in terms of the scientific approach to understanding the world and solving problems
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Context- Personal
- Social/public- Global
Competencies- Identify scientific issues- Explain phenomena scientifically- Use scientific evidence
Knowledge- Knowledge of science- Knowledge about science
Attitudes-Interest in science-Support for scientific enquiry-Responsibility
IdentifyingRecognising issues that can be investigated scientificallyIdentifying keywords in a scientific investigationRecognising the key features of a scientific investigation
ExplainingApplying knowledge of science in a situationDescribing or interpreting phenomena scientifically or predicting change
Using evidenceInterpreting scientific evidence and drawing conclusionsIdentifying the assumptions, evidence and reasoning behind conclusions
Knowledge of sciencePhysical systems (structure of matter, properties of matter, chemical changes of matter, motions and forces, energy and its transformations, energy and matter)Living systems (cells, humans, populations, ecosystems, biosphere)Earth and space (structures of the earth system, energy in the earth system, change in the earth system, earth’s history, space)Technology systems (Concepts and principles, science and technology)Knowledge about scienceScientific enquiry (purpose, experiments, data, measurement, characteristics of results)Scientific explanations (types, rules, outcomes)
Interest scienceIndicate curiosity in science and science-related issues and endeavoursDemonstrate willingness to acquire additional scientific knowledge and skills, using variety of resources and methodsDemonstrate willingness to seek information and have an interest in science, including consideration of science-related careers Support for scienceAcknowledge the importance of considering different scientific perspectives and argumentsSupport the use of factual information and rational explanationLogical and careful processes in drawing conclusions
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Competencies- Identify scientific issues- Explain phenomena scientifically- Use scientific evidence
Knowledge- Knowledge of science- Knowledge about science
Attitudes-Interest in science-Support for scientific enquiry-Responsibility
IdentifyingRecognising issues that can be investigated scientificallyIdentifying keywords in a scientific investigationRecognising the key features of a scientific investigation
ExplainingApplying knowledge of science in a situationDescribing or interpreting phenomena scientifically or predicting change
Using evidenceInterpreting scientific evidence and drawing conclusionsIdentifying the assumptions, evidence and reasoning behind conclusions
OECD Level 6
OECD Level 2 Students can demonstrate
ability to understand and articulate the complex modelling inherent in the design of an investigation.
Students can determine ifscientific measurement can be applied to a given variable in an investigation. Students can appreciate the relationship between a simple model and the phenomenon it is modelling.
Students can draw ona range of abstract scientific knowledge and concepts andthe relationships between these in developing explanations ofprocesses
Students can recall anappropriate, tangible, scientific fact applicable in a simple and straightforward context and can use it to explain or predict an outcome.
Students demonstrateability to compare and differentiate among competing explanations byexamining supporting evidence. They can formulate arguments by synthesising evidence from multiplesources.
Students can point to an obvious feature in a simple table in support of a given statement. They are able to recognise if a set of given characteristics apply to the function of everydayartifacts.
These students often confuse key features of a scientific investigation, apply incorrect information, mix personal beliefs with facts in support of a position…
These students can consistently identify, explain and apply scientific knowledge, link different information sources and explanations and use evidence from these to justify decisions, demonstrate advanced scientific thinking in unfamiliar situations…
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Increased likelihood of postsec. particip. at age 19 associated with reading proficiency at age
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Strengths and weaknesses of countries in science relative to their overall performance
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Cumulative expenditure (US$ converted using PPPs)
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Spending choices on secondary schoolsContribution of various factors to upper secondary teacher compensation costs
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Prescription Informed profession
Uniformity Embracing diversity
Demarcation Collaboration
Provision Outcomes
Bureaucratic – look up Devolved – look outwards
Talk equity Deliver equity
Hit & miss Universal high standards
Received wisdom Data and best practice
The old bureaucratic education system The modern enabling education system
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Towards next generation of global benchmarks
Challenges to the instrumentsChallenges to the approach
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Low policy value
High policy value
Low feasibility High feasibility
Money pits
Must haves
Low-hanging fruits
Quick wins
Examine individual, institutional and systemic
factors associated with high performance
Establish the relative standing of countries in terms of quality and equity in basic
school subjects
Extending the range of competencies through which quality is assessed (including ICT)
Measuring growth in learning
Bridging gap between formative and summative
assessment .
Monitor educational progress
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Why care? Progress
Concerns about skill barriers to economic growth, productivity growth and rates of technological innovation– One additional year of education equals to between
3 and 6% of GDP– Rising tertiary level qualifications seem generally not
to have led to an “inflation” of the labour-market value of qualifications (in all but three of the 20 countries with available data, the earnings benefit increased between 1997 and 2003, in Germany, Italy and Hungary by between 20% and 40%)
Fairness Concerns about the role of skills in creating
social inequity in economic outcomes– Both average and distribution of skill matter
to long-term growth (high percentages of low skill impede growth)
Value for money Concerns about the demand for, and efficiency
and effectiveness of, investments in public goods
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Note: *K-12 education expenitures are assumed to be constant at the level attained in 2005. These data show that economic benefits from a 1989 reform that raised the U.S. to the highest levels of test performance would cover the cost of K-12 education by 2015
Source:Eric Hanushek
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10-year reform20-year reform30-year reformTotal U.S. K-12 spending
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Thank you !
www.oecd.org; www.pisa.oecd.org– All national and international publications– The complete micro-level database