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Measuring Learning Outcomes

Measuring Learning Outcomes. Report from INES Network A Val Plisko, National Center for Education Statistics IEA General Assembly Meeting October 11-13, 2005 Helsinki, Finland. OVERVIEW. Network A in Context Strengths and Capacities Activities Organization Continuing Opportunities

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Measuring Learning Outcomes

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  1. Measuring Learning Outcomes Report from INES Network A Val Plisko, National Center for Education Statistics IEA General Assembly Meeting October 11-13, 2005 Helsinki, Finland

  2. OVERVIEW • Network A in Context • Strengths and Capacities • Activities • Organization • Continuing Opportunities • Working with IEA

  3. NETWORK A IN CONTEXT • One of 4 working groups of International Indicators of Education Systems (INES) Project • Mission focusing on research and development on learning outcomes • Chaired by the United States, with active support of 29 OECD countries

  4. STRENGTHS AND CAPACITIES • Overall strategy developed by members • Forum for country input • NwA Secretariat and country support • Access to outside expertise • Long-term, policy-oriented perspective on development

  5. NETWORK A ACTIVITIES • Develop Indicators for EAG • Current: Prepared 5 indicators for EAG 2005 • Using IEA and PISA data • Future: Serve as a laboratory to develop innovative indicators, draw across sources, develop new presentations and analyses

  6. ACTIVITIES • Technical Support for PISA • Current: Convene Technical Review • To provide input on scoring, scaling, analysis issues and maintenance of PISA trends • Ron Hambleton (Chair), Eugenio Gonzalez, Barbara Plake, Ivo Ponocny • Preliminary results June 2005; recommendations October 2005 • Future: Explore new measurement domains

  7. ACTIVITIES • Teaching and Learning • Following developments with OECD teacher survey • Establishing a committee to elaborate a long-term strategy for studying teaching practice in OECD countries

  8. ACTIVITIES • Assessing adult competencies • Current: Following developments in PIAAC, advocating compatibility with PISA • Future: Proposing a role for overseeing development work for new domains in ICT literacy

  9. ORGANIZATION • Working Groups • Data Needs (chaired by Luxembourg) • Database of activities; coordination strategy • Development (chaired by Belgium-Flemish) • New measurement domains; adults; teaching • Analysis, Reporting and Dissemination (chaired by France) • New analyses; indicators

  10. CONTINUING OPPORTUNITIES • Moving beyond the success of PISA • Making sense of the wealth of assessment data • Measuring CCCs and affective aspects of achievement • Understanding the contribution of teaching to achievement • Extending the use of outcome data for policy purposes

  11. WORKING WITH IEA • Advocate for use of IEA data in Education at a Glance • Support countries’ participation in IEA studies • Working on strategy to foster cooperation among international organizations working on outcomes

  12. Thank you For more information, contact: eugene.owen@ed.gov 1 (202) 502-7422 or the Network A Secretariat mstephens@air.org 1 (202) 403-5982

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