day 7 presented the results of PISA 2009 . is interesting (and positive principle) that in a week so full of news (the effects of the wildcat strike of air traffic controllers, the arrest of Julian Assange and dripping Wikileaks documents, ...) PISA 2009 has become an important gap in all media national, regional or local: El Pais, El Mundo , ABC and other newspapers have echoed the results and we could learn the news broadcast by radio and television. Obviously, the blogosphere, the "Tuitesfera" and the Facebook world and reaped the publication of results.
However, in many cases the news that is collected is no more than the superficial comparison of the average scores on the three "powers" measures. In many cases it was not heeded the recommendations of the experts regarding PISA reading nor have the data contrasted with earlier expectations that it had on the results, as in Andalusia . In some ways the headline "Madrid rubs elite PISA and Andalusia in the queue stalls " comes just in contradiction with the contents of the article itself:
Despite these findings, the report shows that the differences between the results of autonomous regions is only 4%, if you discount the socio-economic characteristics and cultural.not go into any controversy or induce typical comment when analyzing the differences between communities. I just want to encourage you to take a look a little more detail on the results of PISA 2009 and give you a few questions with me.
Perhaps we could start by downloading Annex B2, detailing the results of the various regions who applied to be assessed specifically. Here you can find some data that may you can help enrich your mind about the results of PISA 2009. For example, knowing the sample that was used for evaluation is very important. Here are some examples using the comparison Expansión.com attempted in its headline:
- Andalusian in the sample 74.5% of students study in public schools from 60.6% in Madrid, on the contrary, 39 , 4% in Madrid in subsidized or private study compared to Andalusian 25.5%, 13.9% more for Madrid.
- An Andalusian 29.8% of students studying in schools located in towns with fewer than 15000 inhabitants, while in Madrid this case figure is limited to 13.2%, more specifically, 48.1% of students participating in the evaluation Madrid lies in the capital.
- The difference in reading among students living in Madrid, the capital (518 points on average) and those living in villages between 3000 and 15000 inhabitants (462 points on average) are 56 points.
- Andalusian Students attending schools in population between 3000 and 15000 people have an economic index, social and cultural development of -0.94 and colleagues from Madrid have a rate of -0.29. In the capital this index is 0.07.
- The percentage of students with an economic index, social cultural and low (less than -1) is 40.0% in Andalusia (the highest in the sample) and 19.9% \u200b\u200bin Madrid, only surpassed in the sample for the Basque Country (17.1%). The mean is -0.57 Andalusia and Madrid is -0.07.
- In levels 5 and 6 reading (the "top performers") is 1.7% of students Andalusian and 6.0% of students in Madrid, below the level 2 is 25.6% of students Andalusian and 12.7% of students in Madrid. These four groups have a socio-economic index of 0.32 and 0.72 and -1.13 and -0.71, respectively.
- 85% of students Madrid has two or more schools to choose from and only 4.1% has no choice, in the case of Andalusia, 56.1% can choose between two or more centers while 28.6% have no choice.
- The management teams of schools say that students may be likely or very likely transferred to another facility if
- have low academic performance (8.5% in Madrid, 2.8% in Andalusia)
- have problems behavior (49.9% in Madrid, 32.6% in Andalusia)
- if you have specific learning needs (60.9% in Madrid, 47.3% in Andalusia).
- If the three factors, in Andalusia there is a 2.8% chance of being transferred to another facility while in Madrid is 20.6%, the highest figure in the table, followed at a distance, Castilla y León (9.7% chance).
- index "academic inclusion is of 82.6 in the case of Andalusia and of 78.6 in the case of Madrid.
However, we must recognize that many hasty and superficial reading of PISA 2009 attempt to compare situations sometimes incomparable, perpetuating prejudice and biased views of reality. PISA does not assess only students and educational systems, PISA assesses societies as a whole and does so from certain ideological positions and techniques: PISA assesses what he wants, he can and as you can, which is not far from the reality of the whole school.
So when you read the results, use your critical eye to analyze them and then ask yourself what kind of society reflect their data and what interests are behind the evaluation and even analysis. I think it is preferable, before giving any opinion, think twice what PISA tells us about who, how and why. Health
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