Writing assignment unit 6
The International
Student Assessment Program (PISA) is an international assessment that measures
literacy for reading, math and science in students who are 15 years old every 3
years. First conducted in 2000, the main area of study runs between reading,
mathematics and science in each course. PISA also includes measures of general
competencies or across the curriculum, such as collaborative problem-solving.
By design, PISA emphasizes the career skills that students have acquired as
they approach the end of compulsory education. The International Student
Assessment Programme is coordinated by the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization of
industrialized countries, and conducted in the United States by the National
Authority for Economic and Social Studies. ( Program for International Students
Assessment, n.d.)
Impacts of PISA in UAE
positively and negatively
In UAE, formed from 7
EMIRATES are participating in
(PISA) focuses on the three traditional
areas of reading, mathematics and science. (PISA) is important for the UAE because it is
designed to provide a neutral, global, reputable and fair way to measure the
quality of children's education in any testing country. Whether he's already
doing it is another matter of guesswork that not everyone believes in.
According to the UAE Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), the UAE
is moving into a knowledge-based economy, and the International Student
Assessment Program is part of this process. As Dubai's quality of private
education, KHDA has a vested interest in seeing students receive an education
that will make them ready for their future. International organizations
recognize the importance of skills-based curricula, which has led to increased
country participation in the OECD International Student Assessment Programme. (
OECD and PISA tests are damaging education worldwide-academics.,2014). What no one should doubt is that the current
education system in the UAE, given it as a whole, is not on the standards that
the nation expects or aspires to. (PISA)
is one of the tools used by the UAE government to set the record
straight and understand how well our children are educated in the UAE because
it provides a simple way to compare the performance of our children here, with
those in other countries.
The International
Student Assessment Program enables the UAE government and individual governors
to use the results to measure how well our schools are performing compared to
the rest of the world and how to improve them. (PISA) 's importance to the UAE
"We are at the beginning of the road ... To see us... For each peak, we
reach overlook the next peak. Only those who thrive to achieve this are on top
..." His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister
and Ruler of Dubai, "many schools were closed due to inspections because
they did not meet the standards set by the government of the United Arab
Emirates. The International Student Assessment Programme is part of this
campaign to make the UAE achieve high levels of education. All this is now
being provided to schools so that they know exactly what they have to do to
meet the minimum standards of "good" education required. However, one
thing inspections cannot do is understand the complexity that comes from having
so many different curricula in the same country. Inspections can truly judge
the effectiveness of schools, at least in terms of curricula, only within their
terms. There are more than 30 different curriculums currently operating within
UAE schools, for example, there is a British, American, Indian and Chinese
curriculum, as well as the Arab curriculum, are certainly
Due to this complexity, (PISA) provides the government with a critical tool
to see the UAE's performance very quickly across most types of schools - and
measure school performance over each 3-year (PISA) test. "Broad standardized international
assessments such as (PISA) allow for an
in-country comparison despite differences in the curriculum, as well as between
countries internationally." For the UAE, the argument is that boosting
(PISA) average scores for 15-year-olds,
will increase the country's GDP by more than $100 trillion over the lives of school
dropouts because they will be able to work more productively for the economy
and innovation. This is more revenue (by a wide margin) than the UAE can
extract from all its natural resources combined.
For individual
children, it's about improving their life chances. (PISA) 's effects in the UAE
however, all schools in the UAE do not meet (PISA) standards as expected. The reason the OECD
has identified is the way our schools focus on children reproducing knowledge:
"Students in the UAE are very good at reproducing the content of the subject
but very bad at extrapolating what they know and using and applying their
knowledge in a new situation. That's really what (PISA) testing is about. It explains [uae's]
performance." Andreas Schleicher, director of the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), criticises Sir Anthony Seldon,
former president of both Wellington and Brighton Colleges, as "arguably
doing more harm than good because it diverts schools and national education
systems away from real learning towards frequent learning by heart." To
prove these critics, point to the fact that 13% of (PISA) 's best performing
students in the world came from only 4 provinces in China. Their achievement
extends to the equivalent of about three years of regular education, a degree of
education that loses any opportunity for children living in childhood, or
understanding the world in any form of "pension" context outside the
books. Many argue that "tiger" parents and the government in China is setting up a system of examinations
in the pressure cooker to meet (PISA) 's achievement as an end in itself.
Almost
all of the families in the sample in China used private teachers, distorting
the basic results of what the schools themselves were achieving. They also
question whether the OECD should dictate how and what children should learn -
the OECD completely ignores culture - and wonder: "Where is the focus or
recognition of schools that focus on the whole child - or broader skills in
music and performing arts?" they claim that the OECD is simply interested
in producing economic "robots" rather than fully developed young
people and the cost is any interest in the development of the entire child.
(PISA) creates an escalation in consolidated
data and reliance on simplified data that does not strip any relationship with
the real world. Short-term reforms for 3 years when the real change to the
education system takes decades to test (PISA) s are encouraging,
"seriously narrowing our collective imagination as to what education is and
what it should be." The types of children that (PISA) tests create are lower than children from
economic units. (PISA) is hacked and not
neutral. He is allegedly designed to work for lobbyists and large corporations
that make financial gains. By pushing more and more tests into classrooms,
teachers are forced to teach lessons by heart, "turn learning into
toil," and direct education entirely to the needs of improving grades with
implications for the well-being of students and teachers - and in all these
ways, the OECD "kills the joy of learning."
Conclusion
The positive effect of (PISA) in
the UAE is that it has given parents a reliable source of certification. The
International Student Assessment Program has also led to the correct evaluation
of performance across different curricula across the country. The UAE
government has used (PISA) results as a
reliable measure to measure the quality of the performance of our education
systems and implement policies to further improve educational systems.
The negative impacts
The students did not know the evaluation and
did not want to participate in the actual and I trained the students to enter
the evaluation and solve the test while emphasizing the students to perform
well during the exam were in the past students made random selections without reading
the question and thinking about it and this was a difficult task for me and all
the trainers working to introduce the global test. high pressure on students
and excessive reliance on a single high-risk test that does not measure the
real abilities of students. Unfortunately, some of those highly accomplished
countries in the International Student Assessment Programme are also showing
some worrying trends. It can be said that it is due to overcrowding, pressure
and long days for those children for whom the results mean everything. For many
countries, this "progress" has helped to rise from a developing
country to an economic powerhouse, but can this focus continue only on
academics? The best thing British international schools do [in the UAE] is to
develop Well-educated revolving children but also developed broader skills and
experiences, they are required to be successful adults."
References :
Program
for International Students Assessment (PISA). (n.d.). IES, National Center for
Education Statistics. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/
OECD
and PISA tests are damaging education worldwide-academics. (2014). Theguardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/06/oecd-pisa-tests-damaging-education-academics
KHDA - Welcome to the knowledge and human development
authority of Dubai (KHDA).
(n.d.). KHDA - Welcome to the Knowledge and
Human Development Authority of
Dubai (KHDA). https://beta.khda.gov.ae/en/
OECD. (n.d.). United Arab
https://www.oecd.org/education/bycountry/unitedarabemirates/
UAE Ministry of Education. (n.d.). Home. الامارات العربية المتحدة وزارة التربية
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