Pisa For Development: Lessons From Ecuador
By Josette Arévalo
PISA-D National Project Manager together with Executive Director of the Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa of Ecuador
and
María José Guevara Duque
PISA-D Lead Analyst together with Director of Educational Research at the Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa of Ecuador
Education has been a priority inwards Republic of Ecuador for to a greater extent than than a decade. In 2006, Republic of Ecuador approved a 10-year educational conception past times national referendum, together with the 2017-2021 National Development Plan sets forth an ambitious objective related to the didactics sector: “To guarantee a decent life alongside equal opportunities for all people”. Access together with equality are priorities inwards the didactics sector, but the character of education, infrastructure together with the availability of resources are concerns, equally well.
In corporation to sympathise if nosotros are making progress toward our objectives, nosotros take away comprehensive, reliable together with rigorous evaluation processes. That is why Ecuador’s Ministry of Education decided to participate inwards the PISA for Development (PISA-D) initiative. In joining PISA-D, the ministry building aimed to improve our agreement of the major challenges that students confront inwards the concluding years of formal education, together with to complement the results of our national assessments – Ser Estudiante, Ser Bachiller together with Ser Maestro – alongside a to a greater extent than global perspective. Our organisation, the National Institute of Educational Assessment (Ineval), was appointed to ship out PISA-D throughout Ecuador. We conducted the plain lawsuit of the school-based assessment inwards 2016, carried out the psyche information collection inwards 2017, together with spent 2018 analyzing together with reporting the results.
Participating inwards PISA-D has provided Republic of Ecuador alongside valuable information well-nigh our educational system, together with alongside perspectives that could non last gained through national assessments alone. The plan has too helped strengthen our national capacity to ship out large-scale educational assessments inwards the future.
The PISA-D results volition permit us to ameliorate assess the effectiveness of Ecuador’s didactics system, inwards damage of achievement together with learning, together with to position areas to concentrate our efforts. Participating inwards international programs volition too permit us to closely rail our progress toward both national together with international objectives.
Nevertheless, assessments lone cannot improve the character of education. Policy makers should immediately role these results to railroad train concrete actions, together with to evaluate the effectiveness of policies that accept already been implemented. Researchers, meanwhile, should role our PISA-D findings to railroad train novel lines of enquiry, which tin together with therefore inform futurity policy making. Results from PISA-D together with national assessments volition non Pb to overnight changes inwards Ecuador, but they utilization supply us alongside an of import starting point.
Read more:
PISA-D National Project Manager together with Executive Director of the Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa of Ecuador
and
María José Guevara Duque
PISA-D Lead Analyst together with Director of Educational Research at the Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa of Ecuador
Education has been a priority inwards Republic of Ecuador for to a greater extent than than a decade. In 2006, Republic of Ecuador approved a 10-year educational conception past times national referendum, together with the 2017-2021 National Development Plan sets forth an ambitious objective related to the didactics sector: “To guarantee a decent life alongside equal opportunities for all people”. Access together with equality are priorities inwards the didactics sector, but the character of education, infrastructure together with the availability of resources are concerns, equally well.
In corporation to sympathise if nosotros are making progress toward our objectives, nosotros take away comprehensive, reliable together with rigorous evaluation processes. That is why Ecuador’s Ministry of Education decided to participate inwards the PISA for Development (PISA-D) initiative. In joining PISA-D, the ministry building aimed to improve our agreement of the major challenges that students confront inwards the concluding years of formal education, together with to complement the results of our national assessments – Ser Estudiante, Ser Bachiller together with Ser Maestro – alongside a to a greater extent than global perspective. Our organisation, the National Institute of Educational Assessment (Ineval), was appointed to ship out PISA-D throughout Ecuador. We conducted the plain lawsuit of the school-based assessment inwards 2016, carried out the psyche information collection inwards 2017, together with spent 2018 analyzing together with reporting the results.
Results from PISA-D volition non Pb to overnight changes inwards Ecuador, but they utilization supply us alongside an of import starting point.Results for Republic of Ecuador were mixed. Students said they experience rubber together with happy at school, but the results underscored a take away to improve the character of didactics they receive. The average xv year-old inwards Republic of Ecuador merely reaches PISA proficiency score two inwards reading, together with maths scores are low, equally good – especially amidst girls together with underprivileged students. One of the psyche challenges for our educational scheme today is to non merely supply children alongside the noesis they volition take away throughout their lives, but to ensure that the most vulnerable populations are non excluded from the system.
Participating inwards PISA-D has provided Republic of Ecuador alongside valuable information well-nigh our educational system, together with alongside perspectives that could non last gained through national assessments alone. The plan has too helped strengthen our national capacity to ship out large-scale educational assessments inwards the future.
The PISA-D results volition permit us to ameliorate assess the effectiveness of Ecuador’s didactics system, inwards damage of achievement together with learning, together with to position areas to concentrate our efforts. Participating inwards international programs volition too permit us to closely rail our progress toward both national together with international objectives.
Nevertheless, assessments lone cannot improve the character of education. Policy makers should immediately role these results to railroad train concrete actions, together with to evaluate the effectiveness of policies that accept already been implemented. Researchers, meanwhile, should role our PISA-D findings to railroad train novel lines of enquiry, which tin together with therefore inform futurity policy making. Results from PISA-D together with national assessments volition non Pb to overnight changes inwards Ecuador, but they utilization supply us alongside an of import starting point.
Read more:
- Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa
- PISA for Development: Results inwards Focus
- PISA for Development
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