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by Andreas Schleicher Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Claudia Costin Senior Director, Education Global Practice, World Bank  How do large-scale student assessments, like PISA , actually work? What are the key ingredients that are necessary to produce a reliable, policy relevant assessment of what children and young people know and can do with what they know? A new report commissioned by the OECD and the World Bank offers a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the largest of these assessments are developed and implemented, particularly in developing countries. A Review of International Large-Scale Assessments in Education: Assessing Component Skills and Collecting Contextual Data provides an overview of the main international, regional, national and household-based large-scale assessments of learning. The report shows how the major large-scale assessments have several things in common that contribute to their reliability and relevance. For example, they each p...

by Andreas Schleicher Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Claudia Costin Senior Director, Education Global Practice, World Bank Since 2000, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has been measuring the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in over 70 countries. PISA does not just examine whether students have learned what they were taught, but also assesses whether students can creatively and critically use what they know. Of course, such international comparisons are never easy and they aren’t perfect. But they show what is possible in education, they help governments to see themselves in comparison to the education opportunities and results delivered by other education systems, and they help governments to build effective policies and partnerships for improving learning outcomes. But as the number of countries joining PISA kept rising, it became apparent that the design and implementation models for PISA needed to evolve to successfully ...