The PISA 2018 'Main Survey' data collection is now wrapping up in Aotearoa New Zealand. All that's left now is a mountain of marking, plus the ubiquitous data quality checks and creating the summary reports for all the participating schools.
On a personal note, I would like to say a massive public thank you to every single school who has participated. Thank you. Ngā mihi nui. The amount of goodwill and good humour from every member of school staff who has called our little research team has been tremendously heartwarming. (A few particular standouts but not allowed to name names, sorry.)
Having grown up around my teacher parents and their many teacher friends, there's a special place in my heart for teachers and the past few months have reminded me why.
Although our research team has worked hard behind the scenes to try to minimise what we needed to ask school staff to do to prepare for PISA this time, one staff member at each school still got labelled 'PISA School Coordinator' for these past months, with all the tasks associated with this role. If you know that person in your school, they probably deserve at leasta pat on the back a well-earned day off!
Frankly, it's been a marathon. It seems to me PISA happens every 3 years because that's how much effort goes into it each time, nationally and internationally.
I won't bore you with the details (there's fine books like this for a lot more insight):
But here's a quick photo-based run-through of this large-scale international research programme from a NZ point of view.
Development. (And negotiating permitted adaptations to the test items, questionnaire items and documentation for the NZ context.)
Then into the (2-year) rinse cycle of thorough national trialling of all the items and procedures before scaling up for the main data collection: Training - Field Trial - Marking - Review. Training - Main Survey - Marking - Review.
International training
More international training
Printing letters and materials
National training
Data collection in schools
Receiving back data, attendance sheets and review forms - for data entry
Marking
Preparing and sending thank-you certificates to all the students who took part
Designing School Feedback reports, as a thank you to schools
On a personal note, I would like to say a massive public thank you to every single school who has participated. Thank you. Ngā mihi nui. The amount of goodwill and good humour from every member of school staff who has called our little research team has been tremendously heartwarming. (A few particular standouts but not allowed to name names, sorry.)
Having grown up around my teacher parents and their many teacher friends, there's a special place in my heart for teachers and the past few months have reminded me why.
Although our research team has worked hard behind the scenes to try to minimise what we needed to ask school staff to do to prepare for PISA this time, one staff member at each school still got labelled 'PISA School Coordinator' for these past months, with all the tasks associated with this role. If you know that person in your school, they probably deserve at least
Frankly, it's been a marathon. It seems to me PISA happens every 3 years because that's how much effort goes into it each time, nationally and internationally.
I won't bore you with the details (there's fine books like this for a lot more insight):
But here's a quick photo-based run-through of this large-scale international research programme from a NZ point of view.
Development. (And negotiating permitted adaptations to the test items, questionnaire items and documentation for the NZ context.)
Then into the (2-year) rinse cycle of thorough national trialling of all the items and procedures before scaling up for the main data collection: Training - Field Trial - Marking - Review. Training - Main Survey - Marking - Review.
International training
More international training
Printing letters and materials
National training
Data collection in schools
Receiving back data, attendance sheets and review forms - for data entry
Marking
Preparing and sending thank-you certificates to all the students who took part
Designing School Feedback reports, as a thank you to schools
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