Table 1 The OECD’s plan for managing a...

Table 1

The OECD’s plan for managing a larger PISA programme

This plan includes:
To provide optional support for new LMIC partners to help them prepare for their participation in PISA and assist them with survey implementation To encourage new LMIC partners to concentrate in their first cycle on the implementation of PISA’s core components and will not be offered the alternative to take on additional options such as optional questionnaires or tests, over-sampling and the optional out-of-school component until they have the experience of completing at least one cycle successfully To promote peer-to-peer learning partnerships between an experienced PISA country and a new country to help new National Centres to participate and complete the necessary phases of project implementation To enhance the ways results are presented in the PISA international reports to reflect the wider participation in the programme and to make available the full range of data To continue to support analysis and reporting for LMIC partners in PISA 2021; PISA 2024 To discuss support for countries to prepare regional reports To maintain the use of paper-based assessment in PISA 2021; PISA 2024 and to investigate the comparability of paper- and computer-based scales To develop technical review of the PISA scaling methods to accommodate further non-member participation To continue to enhance PISA instruments to better describe the performance and contexts of a wider range of students To extend the contextual questionnaires in PISA 2021 to measure economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) to better describe the contexts of a broader variety of socio-economic contexts in all partner and member countries To explore how the PISA-D out-of-school component can be integrated in future PISA cycles as an optional module To provide the incorporation of the out-of-school component as an optional module so countries who choose this option can obtain information about the skills acquired by all children To streamline and manage PISA NPMs (National Project Managers) meetings considering the increased number of participants. The streamlining measures include limiting the number of country representatives at each meeting; adding content-specific days to NPM meetings; holding special NPM meetings for new countries and improving NPM governance

This plan includes:

To provide optional support for new LMIC partners to help them prepare for their participation in PISA and assist them with survey implementation

To encourage new LMIC partners to concentrate in their first cycle on the implementation of PISA’s core components and will not be offered the alternative to take on additional options such as optional questionnaires or tests, over-sampling and the optional out-of-school component until they have the experience of completing at least one cycle successfully

To promote peer-to-peer learning partnerships between an experienced PISA country and a new country to help new National Centres to participate and complete the necessary phases of project implementation

To enhance the ways results are presented in the PISA international reports to reflect the wider participation in the programme and to make available the full range of data

To continue to support analysis and reporting for LMIC partners in PISA 2021; PISA 2024

To discuss support for countries to prepare regional reports

To maintain the use of paper-based assessment in PISA 2021; PISA 2024 and to investigate the comparability of paper- and computer-based scales

To develop technical review of the PISA scaling methods to accommodate further non-member participation

To continue to enhance PISA instruments to better describe the performance and contexts of a wider range of students

To extend the contextual questionnaires in PISA 2021 to measure economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) to better describe the contexts of a broader variety of socio-economic contexts in all partner and member countries

To explore how the PISA-D out-of-school component can be integrated in future PISA cycles as an optional module

To provide the incorporation of the out-of-school component as an optional module so countries who choose this option can obtain information about the skills acquired by all children

To streamline and manage PISA NPMs (National Project Managers) meetings considering the increased number of participants. The streamlining measures include limiting the number of country representatives at each meeting; adding content-specific days to NPM meetings; holding special NPM meetings for new countries and improving NPM governance

Source(s): Table by authors

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