PISA as a driver for reform in Denmark - Pisa an eye-opener for educational change in Denmark 17/02/2017 Page 1
Christine Lindrum Iversen Head of Research Division National Agency for Education and Quality Danish Ministry of Education Contact info: Christine.Lindrum.Iversen@StukUvm.dk Page 2
Agenda 1.The Danish PISA-results and reactions 2. Improving school-quality by reforms and goals 3. Improving school-quality by data, evaluation and evidence 4. Assisting local capacity-building 5. Preparing for PISA 2018 Page 3
The Danish PISA-results 2000-2015 520 510 500 490 480 Reading Mathematics Science 470 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015 17/02/2017 Page 4
Immigrant students, science 2015 Odds ratio 4 PISA 2015, science 3 2 1 0 Denmark Germany Slovenia Switzerland Sweden Austria Belgium OECD average Norway France Netherlands Spain Estonia Greece Luxembourg United Kingdom Italy CABA (Argentina) New Zealand Portugal Ireland Croatia Costa Rica Russia United States Hong Kong (China) Israel Canada Jordan Australia Singapore Macao (China) United Arab Emirates Qatar Page 5
Special report on immigrant students achievement Special national option sampling more immigrant students PISA 2009, PISA 2012, PISA 2015, PISA 2018 Larger sample makes it possible to conduct special analyzes Gain greater insight, identify special challenges Performance gap between immigrant and non-immigrant students is still a challenge Struggling to find solutions Next publication, late march 2017 Page 6
High and low achievers, 2015 Reading 15 79 7 Science 16 77 7 Mathematics 14 75 12 Below level 2 Level 2-4 Level 5-6 Page 7
Performance and equity Higher perfomance Mean science performance High performance Low equity 550 500 450 400 High performance Singapore High equity Japan Macao (China) Chinese Tapei Finland Estonia Viet Nam Canada B-S-J-G (China) Slovenia New Zealand Korea Hong Kong (China) Australia United Kingdom Belgium Switzerland Portugal Poland Denmark France Austria Ireland United States Norway Czech Rep. Spain Sweden Latvia Russia Luxembourg Italy Hungary Croatia Lithuania Slovak Rep. Iceland Malta Israel Bulgaria Greece Chile Romania Uruguay Moldova Turkey United Arab Emirates Trinidad and Tobago Costa Rica Thailand Colombia Mexico Qatar Jordan Montenegro Indonesia Brazil Peru Tunisia Lebanon FYROM Kosovo Algeria Dominican Rep. (332) Low performance Low equity 350 More equity Low performance High equity Page 8
PISA as an eye-opener PISA: Middle-range results and problems with social equity Very high spending per student Investments in social welfare Does that characterize a world class school system? PISA as the external trigger for massive public debate on education and policy change Further investigation: OECD review 2004 on primary and lower secondary school: Pointing to a need for stronger evaluation culture Page 9
The need for reforms Political ambitions: World class school system Prime minister 2010: Denmark as top 5 in PISA 2020 Major initiatives and reform policies: - 2005: National compulsory digital testing and mandatory final exams - 2006: 2006 Reform : Strengthening evaluation culture in schools, municipalities and state inspection - 2010 Prime ministers special taskforce on school improvement ( skolens rejsehold ) recommendations on schoolsystem for the government - 2012: Legislative changes for a more inclusive public school (students with Special Educational Needs should be taught in regular classes, as far as possible) - 2012: Agreement on ICT in primary and lower secondary school - 2013: Major reform Making a good school system great Page 10
2006 (2005-7) reform a stronger evaluation culture Individual student learning plan with goals for each student and dialogue with parents An independent council for evaluation and quality of schools giving advice for the Minister of Education. Annual quality reports on school quality from municipalities State-run systematic quality inspection More lessons in Danish and history And: 10 national adaptive digital tests Compulsory finals I Danish, Math, English and Science Page 11
2013 reform - making a good school great Broad political agreement most of the parliament behind it Reform goals: oto challenge alle students so they will become as clever/capable as possible o to reduce the influence of social background on academic achievement o to strengthen the confidence in and the wellbeing of students ins schools and to restore the respect of the professionals in schools Parallel to the reform a new agreement of teachers workinghours was introduced by law (as negotiation failed) Page 12
2013 reform - making a good school great Longer school days with more variation: 45 minutes of physical activity a day Involving local community in school activities (sports clubs, local business life i.e.) Pedagogues in school and systematic help for homework Revised Common Objectives (curriculum) for student learning More lessons in Danish and Math Earlier start on foreign languages Digital Learning Management System in all schools Strengthened teachers competency Capacity building by national Learning consultants Page 13
The broader perspective data, evaluation and evidence PISA (TALIS, TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS, PIACC etc.) as part of the puzzle What works and what doesn t - in Denmark.. and elsewhere Which countries and regions succeed What are the explanations???? Data, evaluation and evidence as the driver for improving school quality Collecting and providing data of high quality for national and local use Increased focus on evidence-based policy making and practice: Student well being surveys for all students Comprehensive research and evaluation programs monitoring three large reforms on Primary and Lower Secondary School, High School, Vocational Education and Training Page 14
Supporting local capacity building App. 80 parttime learning consultants offering advice for schools and municipalities Datawarehouse, data on relevant indicators available to schools and municipalities EMU.dk, communication platform, sharing knowledge from research and practice Page 15
Awaiting the results of PISA 2018 Things take time Three years after reform Research and evaluation program: last data collection spring 2018 High expectations on PISA 2018 Page 16