Cambridge Assessment: Professor William H. Schmidt about What we have learned from 60 years of big transnational surveys

Professor William H. Schmidt (@bschmidt_msu) from the USA. Bill is a leading thinker and mover on international comparisons, and his original thinking on the means of drawing lessons from the big international surveys – particularly TIMSS – has produced ground-breaking insights into the operation of education systems. At this seminar (the first to be held at …

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Qué dicen TALIS y PISA sobre el efecto de las prácticas docentes en el rendimiento estudiantil

El informe Prácticas docentes y rendimiento estudiantil. Evidencia a partir de TALIS 2013 y PISA 2012 (PDF) pretende identificar el efecto de las prácticas docentes, medidas a partir del Estudio Internacional sobre la Enseñanza y el aprendizaje (TALIS) 2013, en el rendimiento del estudiante en matemáticas, lectura y ciencia en el Programa para la Evaluación …

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Correlations among problem-solving and PISA performance in maths, science and reading

Reviewing the last PISA report (2014) about «Are 15-year-olds creative problem-solvers?» available at European Schoolnet Academy (PDF) site, I found this figure: It shows the latent correlation between performance in Mathematics, Reading, Science and Problem-solving. Probably nothing unexpected in the overall data but I’d like to highlight, in my modest opinion, two noticeable correlations: Problem-solving …

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