If London were a country, how would it do in PISA?
Not as well as you’d expect, it turns out
Who are the world’s biggest bull****ters? A light-hearted look at PISA data
The international study covers more than just educational achievement
England’s schools segregate by ability more than almost every other country in the world
Comparing rates of setting and grouping by ability to those of other nations
Are teenagers in England addicted to social media? (And does it matter?)
Looking into whether evidence from PISA supports recent claims
10 key findings for secondary school teachers from TALIS 2018
With findings on pay, working hours, job satisfaction and CPD
10 key findings for primary school teachers from TALIS 2018
With findings on pay, working hours, job satisfaction and CPD
Is PISA still a fair basis for comparison? Some serious questions have emerged
A version of this blogpost also appears on the Centre for Education Economics website. The OECD's PISA study compares the science, reading and mathematics skills of 15-year-olds across countries, with the results closely watched by journalists, public policymakers and the general public from across the world. Conducted every three years, particular attention is now being [...]
Four things PISA tells us about after-school learning
A version of this blogpost also appears on the Sutton Trust website. When the PISA results are released, almost everyone is fixated upon the average scores children have achieved in reading, science and mathematics, and our latest position in the “international rankings”. However, a lot of other information is captured within the study, some of [...]
Why does Vietnam do so well in PISA? An example of why naive interpretation of international rankings is such a bad idea
A version of this post was first published in Research Intelligence, the British Educational Research Association’s termly magazine. When the PISA 2015 results were released in December last year, Vietnam was one of the countries that stood out as doing remarkably well. (PISA is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s triennial assessment of 15-year-olds [...]