Measuring Learning Outcomes

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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

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OVERVIEW

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Thank you
For more information, contact eugene.owen_at_ed.gov
1 [phone] or the Network A Secretariat
mstephens_at_air.org 1 [phone]