Programme for International Student

Assessment:
OPP ORTUNITIES:

CHALLEN GES:

Test if students can
use what they have
learned in school and
apply it to real life
situations and
problems; not looking
for regurgitated
information
(PISA- Measuring Student Success
Around the World 2011)

(Organisation for Economics

Cooperation and Development
2014)

(NeaToday 2013)

The only
international
education survey to
measure the
knowledge and skills
of 15-year-olds, an age
at which students in
most countries are
nearing the end of
their compulsory time
in school
(Organisation for Economics
Cooperation and Development
2014)

Has led many

governments into
an international
competition for
higher test scores

PISA has further

increased the already
high stress level in
schools, which
endangers the
wellbeing of students
and teachers

(The Guardian 2014)

(NeaToday 2013)

Parent Perspectives:
The obsessive focus on the PISA
ranking leads to countries being
praised or shamed for their
relative performance
(Froese- Germain 2014)

PISA is a powerful tool in its

growing education arsenal that
governments and corporate
interests can use to shape
education systems to serve
narrow economic objectives

(VeryShareimg 2016)

Provides a rich dataset that includes not

only the performance measures but also
measures the student attitude, perception
and motivation, and school and home traits
that are generally accepted to have
importance in the context of schooling
(Milford, Ross & Anderson 2010, p. 453)

Not telling each
student how well they
did individually,
rather focusing on the
data as a nation

(Forest Technology 2015)

Media Perspectives:

(Icci 2011)

(Milford, Ross & Anderson 2010, p. 453)

(Strain 2014, p. 18)

(The Guardian 2014)

Results play an important role in discussions
of national and international pedagogy and
school policy

(PISA- Measuring Student

Success Around the World 2011)

Shifts attention to
short-term policies,
which are mostly
inappropriate in
various cultural
contexts

PISA is only administrated

to a small fraction of
students and doesnt
provide a clear or reliable
snapshot of a nation as a
whole (Meyer & Zahedi 2014)

(My Cute Graphic 2006)

Teacher
Perspectives:

(Froese- Germain 2014)

(My Cute Graphic 2006)

Community Perspectives:
Simple country
comparisons on a single
assessment, no matter
how good it might be,
provide little guidance
for policy development
and should be viewed
with caution
(Buckingham 2013)

PISA results are

interesting and
provide useful
information about
changes in Australias
performance over
time
(Buckingham 2013)