scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ICT TO RAISE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ITALIAN TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Michela Freddano ◽  
Paolo Diana
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Professional Schools ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The Relationship

The research examines the role of using ICT to raise students’ achievement in Italian technical and professional schools. The hypothesis developed in this research is that students who obtain better learning results are those students who use ICT more than those students who are low performers. Data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) have been analyzed. The relationship between using ICT at school and students’ digital skills and attitudes has been analyzed by comparing the lowest performers and strong performers in reading literacy in Italian technical and professional schools. Results show that in Italian technical and professional schools, strong performers in reading literacy in PISA 2009 are more capable to do tasks at computer than low performers; however reading online and using ICT have greater positive effects towards achievement among low performers. Key words: ICT, PISA, professional school, reading literacy, technical school.

Three Paradoxical Effects on Academic Self-Concept Across Countries, Schools, and Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Marsh ◽  
Philip D. Parker ◽  
Reinhard Pekrun
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
School Level ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Starting School

Abstract. We simultaneously resolve three paradoxes in academic self-concept research with a single unifying meta-theoretical model based on frame-of-reference effects across 68 countries, 18,292 schools, and 485,490 15-year-old students. Paradoxically, but consistent with predictions, effects on math self-concepts were negative for: • being from countries where country-average achievement was high; explaining the paradoxical cross-cultural self-concept effect; • attending schools where school-average achievement was high; demonstrating big-fish-little-pond-effects (BFLPE) that generalized over 68 countries, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/non-OECD countries, high/low achieving schools, and high/low achieving students; • year-in-school relative to age; unifying different research literatures for associated negative effects for starting school at a younger age and acceleration/skipping grades, and positive effects for starting school at an older age (“academic red shirting”) and, paradoxically, even for repeating a grade. Contextual effects matter, resulting in significant and meaningful effects on self-beliefs, not only at the student (year in school) and local school level (BFLPE), but remarkably even at the macro-contextual country-level. Finally, we juxtapose cross-cultural generalizability based on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data used here with generalizability based on meta-analyses, arguing that although the two approaches are similar in many ways, the generalizability shown here is stronger in terms of support for the universality of the frame-of-reference effects.

Integration of Self-diagnosis in Pascal Law Learning Using STEM Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Siti Hannah Padliyyah
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Engineering Mathematics ◽  
Post Test ◽  
11Th Grade

Indonesia is ranked 56th out of 65 participating countries in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) based on data 2015. According to PISA results, the average science score of Indonesian students is 403, where this number is categorized as low. This is because students are still in the process of understanding and have not yet fully recognized the location of their mistakes. Students can diagnose the location of their mistakes through self-diagnosis activities. Self-diagnosis activities require the active role of students during the learning process. One approach that can increase the active role of students is STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics). However, research at this time is still rarely found self-diagnosis activities that are applied to the STEM approach. Therefore, this research has the aim to find out the increase in mastery of physical concepts and self-diagnosis of students on the STEM learning approach to the theory of poscal law class XI High School.This study uses a One-Group pretest-posttest design with a sample of 30 ini 11th grade highschool from one schools in Bandung. . Based on the findings, there is an increase in mastery of concepts [<g> = 0.51] from pre-test to post-test. In self-diagnosis activities identified that there are differences in scores [z = 1.75; p = 0.9599] student assessment results of researchers and self-scoring results. Deeper self-diagnosis triggers a series of implicit steps that encourage them to rearrange their cognition by correcting the mistakes they make when solving problems. So that learning activities using the STEM approach that involves self-diagnosis activities can improve students' mastery of concepts.

Policy as Assemblage

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radhika Gorur
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Research Work ◽  
National Policy ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research World

In this article, the author tells the story of her search for appropriate tools to conceptualise policy work. She had set out to explore the relationship between the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Australia's education policy, but early interview data forced her to reconsider her research question. The plethora of available models of policy did not satisfactorily accommodate her growing understanding of the messiness and complexity of policy work. On the basis of interviews with 18 policy actors, including former OECD officials, PISA analysts and bureaucrats, as well as documentary analysis of government reports and ministerial media releases, she suggests that the concept of ‘assemblage’ provides the tools to better understand the messy processes of policy work. The relationship between PISA and national policy is of interest to many scholars in Europe, making this study widely relevant. An article that argues for the unsettling of tidy accounts of knowledge making in policy can hardly afford to obscure the untidiness of its own assemblage. Accordingly, this article is somewhat unconventional in its presentation, and attempts to take the reader into the messiness of the research world as well as the policy world. Implicit in this presentation is the suggestion that both policy work and research work are ongoing attempts to find order and coherence through the cobbling together of a variety of resources.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF RUSSIAN SCHOOL EDUCATION IN PISA CONTEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 656-667
Author(s):  
Iosif Zaia ◽  
Ekaterina Manuylova ◽  
Artur Gevorkyan ◽  
Pavel Nesterov ◽  
Sergei Gavrov
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Heterogeneous Information ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Made In

The article based on the research which aim is to clear, how common teaching practices in Russian schools affecting the decline in the results of students when performing tasks of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The authors of the article try to understand why teachers so often prefer quite old training technologies. In the course of study these problems, members of research team conducted interviews and discussions with school teachers from the Moscow region who were trained in advanced training courses at the Academy of Public Administration. Intensive interaction with teachers helped the authors to draw a conclusion that the avoiding more effective contemporary training technologies is due to certain conditions in which the teacher works. Another conclusion made in the article: teachers fail in teaching students not because they do not have enough knowledge of modern technologies and techniques or because they underestimate the importance of developing critical thinking, anthropological imagination, knowledge of meta-subject connections, the skills to understand texts and work with heterogeneous information, but because they are not ready to accept the changing social role of the school. 

scholarly journals The Influence of Family Wealth and Parent Education Level on Students� Reading Literacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Abu Nawas
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Family Wealth ◽  
Education Levels

This study aims to examine the influence of family background factors in terms of family wealth and parent education levels on students reading performance in Indonesia. The study utilises secondary data from the OECDs Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 for Indonesia, in which 6513 students participated. This also specifically highlights the analysis of family wealth and parent education levels in possibly predicting the students reading literacy in Indonesia. In analysing the data, a quantitative approach was used which utilised statistically different analysis such as t-test, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, correlation and multiple linear regression analysis using WesVar version 5.1 software.The result found there were significant different reading scores between students from different family wealth and parent education levels. The students from high family wealth performed better than they with middle and low wealthy. Likewise, the children with highly educated mother and father had high scores than students whose parents had low and did not complete primary school. Moreover, the result of correlation and regression analysis revealed that all predictor variables, WEALTH, MISCED and FISCED, significantly associate and predict better reading literacy performance of 15-year-old students in Indonesia for PISA 2015 survey. Therefore, the implications of the study highlight opportunities to reform educational policies through data and evidence.

Facilitating Reading Engagement in Shared Reading

Poetics Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-251
Author(s):  
Mette Steenberg ◽  
Charlotte Christiansen ◽  
Anne Line Dalsgård ◽  
Anne Maria Stagis ◽  
Liv Moeslund Ahlgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Reading Engagement ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Specific Practice ◽  
Educational Need

Abstract This article responds to this special issue's overarching interest in the relation between modes of reading and the experiences of actual readers by analyzing how the specific practice of shared reading facilitates readers’ engagement in literary reading. The article responds both to an under-investigated dimension of the practice of shared reading, that of the role of facilitation, and to a pressing articulated and educational need to develop additional and better methodologies for fostering literary reading engagement, as existing results from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have demonstrated the importance of reading engagement for both academic achievement and social mobility. By linking the notion of engagement within the PISA framework with phenomenologically oriented empirical research on expressive reading and the notion of emergent thinking in existing shared reading research, the article argues for the role of the reader leader in facilitating literary engagement. These connections may inspire literary scholars to consider the link between literary analysis and the didactics of literary reading.

Rethinking “(Under) Performance” for Black English Speakers: Beyond Achievement to Opportunity

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 528-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patriann Smith ◽  
Alex Kumi-Yeboah ◽  
Rong Chang ◽  
Jaehoon Lee ◽  
Paul Frazier
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Black American ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Black Immigrant ◽  
Assessment Measure ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

We draw on the concept of the opportunity gap explanatory framework in this study to problematize the notion of “(under)performance” of Black American (i.e., African American) and Black immigrant youth. Examining reading literacy achievement results of Black American and Black immigrant youth using a corpus of data from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), we demonstrate the ways in which these youth self-identified as language speakers on the PISA reading literacy assessment measure, the influence of this self-identification on interpretations of their reading literacy, and the influence of other demographic factors on this achievement across subgroups. We suggest that the disaggregation of data for Black subpopulations can allow for a better understanding of the ways in which demographic, social, and cultural factors impact achievement within specific Black subgroups. We also highlight the need for reframing examinations of Black students’ literacies in ways that are humanizing. Implications for research, practice, and policy are provided.

Never Waste a Crisis: Understanding the Welsh Policy Response to PISA in the Context of the Globally Structured Reform Agenda

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-191
Author(s):  
Lizzie Swaffield
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
National Education ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
National Education Systems ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
The Impact

This article considers the nature of the globally structured reform agenda including the role of international organisations and the development of new supra-national modes of governance. It discusses the impact of this agenda on education policy within national education systems with a particular focus on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an example of the globally structured reform agenda. It explores the role PISA has in global educational governance and in influencing the transfer of policy between education systems. Policy responses to PISA are critically discussed with a particular focus on the response in Wales. It is argued that new supra-national modes of governance shape education systems and the transfer of policy between them, but that they are also used as a tool to further domestic political agendas in order to bring about reforms.

scholarly journals PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT SEBAGAI UPAYA MENCIPTAKAN GENERASI MUDA BERDAYA LITERASI PADA KAMPUNG SINAU KOTA MALANG

Jurnal Akrab ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
Nastiti Novitasari
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Reading Activities ◽  
Literate Society ◽  
Education Process

Education is always related to reading activities. The ability to read is often referred to as literacy activities.  The reality in Indonesia so far is the low mastery of literacy, this is evidenced by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey. The survey in 2018 showed that for the reading / literacy competency score, Indonesia was ranked 72 out of 77 countries. To deal with this problem, many things can be applied in the education process, both from formal non-formal and informal channels.Kampung Sinau is a thematic village located in the Cemorokandang Malang City. Various learning activities are carried out in unique ways that can attract citizens, the younger generation in particular, to enrich literacy and make citizens literate, one of which is community empowerment activities. Researchers are interested in knowing how to optimize community empowerment in making generations young people with literacy skills in Kampung Sinau. The approach and type of research used by the researcher is a qualitative approach to the type of case study.  This research was conducted at the end of 2019 in Kampung Sinau, Malang City. The results of this study 1) Community participation is needed in the success of the empowerment program, 2) It takes stages to carry out community empowerment., 3) It takes collaboration and innovation to create a literate society. Suggestions from this study are that the results of this study can be used as a reference for evaluating and developing similar programs. AbstrakPendidikan selalu berkaitan erat dengan kegiatan membaca. Kegiatan ini selalu menjadi salah satu point utama yang mendukung lancarnya proses pendidikan. Kemampuan membaca sering disebut dengan kegiatan Literasi. Kenyataan yang dihadapi oleh Indonesia selama ini adalah rendahnya penguasaan literasi, dibuktikan melalui survei Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Survei pada tahun 2018 menunjukkan bahwa nilai kompetensi Membaca/literasi, Indonesia berada dalam peringkat 72 dari 77 negara. Kenyataan ini sangat bertentangan dengan keadaan Ideal yang seharusnya. Untuk menghadapi permasalahan, banyak hal yang dapat diterapkan dalam proses pendidikan, baik itu dari jalur formal nonformal maupun informal. Kampung sinau merupakan salah satu kampung tematik yang berada di  kawasan Cemorokandang Kota Malang. Kegiatan belajar dilaksanakan dengan unik yang dapat menarik generasi muda khususnya, agar memperkaya khasanah literasi dan menjadikannya berdaya literasi, dikemas dengan kegiatan pemberdayaan masyarakat. Oleh karena itu peneliti tertarik untuk mengetahui bagaimana pemberdayaan masyarakat dalam menjadikan generasi muda berdaya literasi di kampung sinau. Pendekatan dan jenis penelitian yang digunakan oleh penelliti yakni pendekatan kualitatif  jenis studi kasus. Peneliti melaksanakan proses penelitan secara mendalam melalui  penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan jenis studi kasus. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada akhir tahun 2019 di Kampung Sinau Kota Malang. Hasil dari penelitian ini 1) Partisipasi masyarakat sangat dibutuhkan dalam keberhasilan program pemberdayaan, 2) Diperlukan tahapan-tahapan untuk melaksanakan pemberdayaan Masyarakat., 3) Diperlukan kerjasama dan inovasi untuk menciptakan masyarakat yang berdaya literasi. Saran dari Penelitian ini yakni Sebaiknya hasil penelitian ini dapat dijadikan bahan acuan untuk melakukan evaluasi dan pengembangan terhadap program serupa.

scholarly journals Translator Trainees’ Reading Literacy, Problem Solving, and Translation Skills A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-157
Author(s):  
Gabriella Kovács ◽  
Katalin Harangus
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Student ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Level Scale

AbstractLinguistic and cultural mediators, such as translators, interpreters, and language teachers, need complex and well-developed language skills in all the languages they work with. In this study, we examine the connections and correlations among the following skills: reading literacy in native language, reading literacy in foreign language, problem solving and translation. Three of these skills (reading in native and foreign language and problem solving) are evaluated on a three-level scale based on the three cognitive processes used in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) assessments (location of information, understanding, evaluation and reflection) (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – OECD 2018). The methodology of measuring reading comprehension in native language and problem-solving skills has already been developed and applied by our research group (Pletl 2019, Harangus 2018); therefore, after assessing the foreign language reading literacy and translation skills, we will be able to analyse the translator trainees’ results based on the aforementioned three-level scale and examine possible connections and correlations between the different but interrelated skills. With an interdisciplinary approach, this study concentrates on revealing the overlaps and meeting points, the spaces in between the use of these skills.

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