TY - GEN
T1 - The OECD’s programme for international student assessment (pisa) study
T2 - 36th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery, GfKl 2012
AU - Ünlü, Ali
AU - Kasper, Daniel
AU - Trendtel, Matthias
AU - Schurig, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA; e.g., OECD, Sample tasks from the PISA 2000 assessment, 2002a; OECD, Learning for tomorrow’s world: first results from PISA 2003, 2004; OECD, PISA 2006: Science competencies for tomorrow’s world, 2007; OECD, PISA 2009 Technical Report, 2012) is an international large scale assessment study that aims to assess the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students, and based on the results, to compare education systems across the participating (about 70) countries (with a minimum number of approx. 4,500 tested students per country). Initiator of this Programme is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; www.pisa.oecd.org). We review the main methodological techniques of the PISA study. Primarily, we focus on the psychometric procedure applied for scaling items and persons. PISA proficiency scale construction and proficiency levels derived based on discretization of the continua are discussed. For a balanced reflection of the PISA methodology, questions and suggestions on the reproduction of international item parameters, as well as on scoring, classifying and reporting, are raised. We hope that along these lines the PISA analyses can be better understood and evaluated, and if necessary, possibly be improved.
AB - The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA; e.g., OECD, Sample tasks from the PISA 2000 assessment, 2002a; OECD, Learning for tomorrow’s world: first results from PISA 2003, 2004; OECD, PISA 2006: Science competencies for tomorrow’s world, 2007; OECD, PISA 2009 Technical Report, 2012) is an international large scale assessment study that aims to assess the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students, and based on the results, to compare education systems across the participating (about 70) countries (with a minimum number of approx. 4,500 tested students per country). Initiator of this Programme is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; www.pisa.oecd.org). We review the main methodological techniques of the PISA study. Primarily, we focus on the psychometric procedure applied for scaling items and persons. PISA proficiency scale construction and proficiency levels derived based on discretization of the continua are discussed. For a balanced reflection of the PISA methodology, questions and suggestions on the reproduction of international item parameters, as well as on scoring, classifying and reporting, are raised. We hope that along these lines the PISA analyses can be better understood and evaluated, and if necessary, possibly be improved.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951735877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-01595-8_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-01595-8_45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951735877
SN - 9783319015941
T3 - Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization
SP - 417
EP - 425
BT - Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery
A2 - Schmidt-Thieme, Lars
A2 - Janning, Ruth
A2 - Spiliopoulou, Myra
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
Y2 - 1 August 2012 through 3 August 2012
ER -