PISA for Development - Meetings

27 May 2014 - Meeting of the PISA for 
Development International Advisory Group

On behalf of OECD, Anthony Rottier signs the Participation Agreement with Ecuador for PISA for Development with Harvey Spencer Sanchez Restrepo, Executive Director, National Institute for Educational Evaluation (INEVAL), Ecuador. The OECD has signed similar agreements with Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Senegal and Zambia.

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2017 Meetings

4th meeting of the International Advisory Group (Siem Reap, Cambodia– 17 - 19 May 2017)

Day 1 Presentations

1. Expected results of the meeting (OECD Secretariat)
2. Annual Report (OECD Secretariat)
3. PISA for Development Progress Report (Strands A, B and C: ETS – Ann Kennedy)
4. Field Trial Analysis – Cognitive instruments (ETS – Claudia Tamassia)
5. Main Survey Integrated Design (ETS – Ann Kennedy)
6. PISA-D Questionnaire/ Rationale for selection of questionnaire content and summary of field trial analyses (The Learning Bar – Doug Willms)

Day 2 Presentations

1. Capacity Building (OECD Secretariat)
2. Framework (OECD Secretariat)
3. Analysis and Reporting Plan (OECD Secretariat)

Day 3 Presentations

1. Kosovo’s first PISA (German International co-Operation - Dr Boris Scharlowski)
2. PISA 2015 First results for Kosovo (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - Mr Fatmir Elezi)
3. PISA for Development Engagement and Communications Strategy update:
   • OECD Report
   • Zambia Report (Examinations Council of Zambia - Mr Shadreck Nkoya)
   • Guatemala Report (Ministry of Education - DIGEDUCA)
   • Panama (Ministry of Education of Panama / MEDUCA)
   • Panama / Colombia (MINEDUCA)
   • Paraguay (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencias)
   • Honduras (Ministry of Education)
   • Ecuador (Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa – Mr Harvey Spencer Sánchez Restrepo)
   • Cambodia (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport – EQAD)
4. ToR for an Independent Review (OECD Secretariat)
5. Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) (UNESCO Bangkok – Ms. Ramya Vivekanandan)
6. Assessment for Quality Education – Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) (UNICEF – Mr Akihiro Fushimi)
7. Conclusions and next steps (OECD Secretariat)

2016 Meetings

American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2016 Annual Meeting (Washington DC, United States – 12 April 2016)

Presentation on PISA for Development

3rd meeting of the International Advisory Group (Asuncion, Paraguay – 30 March-1 April 2016)

Day 1 Presentations

1. Expected results of the meeting (OECD Secretariat)
2. Annual Report (OECD Secretariat)
3. PISA for Development Progress Report (Strands A and C: ETS - Ann Kennedy)
4. Contextual Questionnaires for Educational Prosperity (Strand B: The Learning Bar - Doug Willms)
5. PISA for Development Capacity Building
   • OECD Secretariat
   • Cambodia (Minsitry of Education, Youth and Sport of Cambodia - Chinna Ung)
   • Senegal (National Institute for Study and Action for Development in Education of Senegal - Mame Ibra Ba)
   • Zambia (Examinations Council of Zambia - Teza Nakazwe)
6. Conclusions - Closing session: Day 1 (OECD Secretariat)

Day 2 Presentations

1. Kosovo in PISA 2015 (Ministry of Education of Kosovo - Anila Statovci-Demaj)
2. Kosovo in PISA 2015 - GIZ Support to the PISA Process in Kosovo (GIZ - Dagmar Fuchs-Schmidtz)
3. PISA for Development Engagement and Communications Strategy Update:
   • OECD Secretariat
   • Senegal (National Institute for Study and Action for Development in Education of Senegal - Mame Ibra Ba)
   • Paraguay (Ministry of Education and Culture of Paraguay - Rodolfo Elias)
   • Cambodia (Minsitry of Education, Youth and Sport of Cambodia - Chinna Ung)
   • Honduras (Ministry of Education of Honduras - Jorge Carias)
   • Guatemala (Ministry of Education of Guatemala - Maria Jose del Valle Catalan)
   • Educador (National Institute for Educational Evaluation of Educador - Harvey Sanchez)
4. PISA for Development Analysis and Reporting Plan (OECD Secretariat)
5. Analysis and Reporting Plan for Educational Prosperity (The Learning Bar - Doug Willms)
6. Conclusions - Closing session: Day 2 (OECD Secretariat)

Day 3 Presentations

1. Status of System-level data in PISA for Development Participating Countries (UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Said Voffal)
2. LLECE and E2030: an Instrument to Improve Quality of Education (UNESCO - Atilio Pizarro)
3. PISA for Development Terms of Reference for an Independent Review (OECD Secretariat)
4. PISA Development Strategy (OECD Secretariat)
5. Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura - Overview of Activities (Marien Peggy Martínez Stark)
6. Next Steps – Closing Session: Day Three (OECD Secretariat)

2015 meetings

2nd meeting of the International Advisory Group (Paris, France – 11-13 March 2015)

Day 1 presentations

1.    Expected results from the meeting (OECD Secretariat)
2.    Terms of Reference for the International Advisory Group (IAG) (OECD Secretariat)
3.    Terms of Reference for the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) (OECD Secretariat)
4.    Annual report on project activities (OECD Secretariat)
5.    Project management, cognitive instruments and contextual questionnaires (OECD Secretariat)
6.    PISA for Development Implementation Structure and Project Timeline (Strand A: ETS – Claudia Tamassia)
7.    Enhancing PISA’s contextual questionnaires (Strand B : TLB – J. Douglas Willms & Robert Laurie)
8.    Preparation of countries (OECD Secretariat)
9.    Needs assessment, Capacity building and Program implementation planning (Fernando Cartwright)
10.    Ecuador in PISA-D: Project Implementation Plan (Ecuador)
11.    Project Implementation Plan for Senegal (Senegal)
12.    International Advisory Group Meeting – Conclusions – Closing Session: Day One (OECD Secretariat)

Day 2 presentations

1.    Learning from PISA (Marlaine Lockheed)
2.    System level data (OECD Secretariat)
3.    System-level indicators and PISA for Development (UNESCO Institute for Statistics – Albert Motivans & Amelie Gagnon)
4.    Review of Component Skills, Contextual Data and Implementation Procedures in International Assessments (ACER –John Cresswell, Ursula Schwantner & Charlotte Waters)
5.    ToR for an Independent Review (OECD Secretariat)
6.    Engagement and Communication Strategy (OECD Secretariat)
7.    Ecuador in PISA-D: Communications strategy (Ecuador)
8.    International Advisory Group Meeting – Closing Session: Day Two (OECD Secretariat)

Day 3 presentations

1.    PISA for Development Overview (Strand A: ETS – Ann Kennedy)
2.    Frameworks and Expert Group (Pearson – John de Jong)
3.    PISA-D Contextual Questionnaires (Strand B : TLB – J. Douglas Willms & Robert Laurie)
4.    PISA for Development Assembling and Printing Paper Booklets (Strand A: ETS – Ann Kennedy)
5.    PISA-D Instrumentation: Translation/Adaptation and Verification (Capstan – Steve Dept)
6.    A Review of Sampling in PISA (Westat – Keith Rust)
7.    Survey Procedures and Operations (Westat – Merl Robinson)
8.    Coding and Data Management, Analysis, and Products (Strand A: ETS – Ann Kennedy)
9.    International Advisory Group Meeting – Next Steps – Closing Session: Day Three (OECD Secretariat)

2014 meetings

Technical Workshop on out-of-school 15-year-olds (Montreal, Canada – 1-2 October 2014)

Workshop Presentations

• Workshop Agenda
• PFD Next Steps and Update OECD
• Scenesetting
• Counting and Locating
• Finding and Identifying 15 year olds
• Approach to Sampling/Surveying
• Developing an Assessment Framework
• Contextual Questionnaires
• Component Terms of Reference for International Contractors
• Summary presentation
• Strand C next steps OECD

1st meeting of the International Advisory Group (Paris, France – 27-28 May 2014)

• Day 1 All presentations
• Day 2 All presentations
• Closing session

PISA for Development Technical Workshops (Washington, DC, United States – 8-11 April 2014)

Cognitive Instruments 8-9 April 2014

• PFD Next Steps & Update OECD
• PISA Frameworks Willms Tramonte
• PISA and PFD Differences OECD
• Scaling of data Adam
• Summary of issues to be addressed
• PASEC Presentation
• Reading Components LAMP UIS Cardoso
• Initial input for ToR for International Contractors
• Cognitive Instruments Strand Next Steps OECD    

Contextual Questionnaires 10-11 April 2014

• PfD Workshop Contextual Questionnaires
• PISA Framework Willms Tramonte
• Policy questions Willms Tramonte
• Data collection Willms Tramonte
• LLECE Assessment Bilagher
• PASEC Contextual Questionnaire
• STEP Skills Measurement WB Rajadel
• Policy Questions 2 Willms Tramonte
• OOSY Summary points Carr-Hill
• Options for PfD Willms Tramonte
• Target Populations EFA GMR Antoninis
• Initial input for ToRs of ICs

2013 meetings

Initial Technical Meeting (Paris, France – 27-28 June 2013)

Day 1

• PISA for Development General Presentation
• A Schleicher Presentation 27 June 2013
• Luiz Costa June 2013 - IDEB OCDE
• PISA for Development Technical Strand 1 Contextual 27 June 2013
• Willms - OECD PISA for Development
• PISA for Development Technical Strand 2 Cognitive 27 June 2013
• Kentaro Reading Components June 2013
• Motivans OOSCI Pisa for development June 2013

 Day 2

• PASEC PISA For Development final version
• PISA for Development Technical Issues draft for ToR to present
• PISA for Development Next Steps and Conclusions