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New global testing standards will force countries to revisit academic rankings

April 21, 2019

Since 2000 when the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched a global academic benchmark for measuring student outcomes by testing 15-year-olds, many global education systems have been impacted…

Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan unite to fight exam cheating

April 6, 2019

The East African regions recently passed the establishment of the Eastern Africa Association for Educational Assessment (EAAEA), which aims at strengthening the fight against examination cheating, Daily news reported.The association…

PISA founder Andreas Schleicher on the future of the education ranking

April 6, 2019

The global education ranking system, the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, is changing to put more emphasis on measuring 21st-century skills, such as creativity and digital literacy and…

PISA set to change

March 24, 2019

The OECD is working to move its international testing program away from standardised, summative testing as debate about the value of such assessments grows louder in Australia and around the…

Pisa’s ‘rich’ resource risked by ‘useless’ rankings

March 24, 2019

Education ministers have called on the Pisa study to communicate its findings better – so that the focus is not on “useless” headline rankings. Concerns were voiced today that the…

Is the College Cheating Scandal the ‘Final Straw’ for Standardized Tests?

March 19, 2019

Perhaps no tests have higher stakes in the United States than the SAT and the ACT. For decades the scores were a key data point on the application for virtually…

Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education”

March 4, 2019

The Institute of Education at HSE University Russia welcomes applications for the upcoming Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education” Dates: August 05–10, 2019 Venue: HSE University…

Can continuous assessment solve exam wrangles? – Daily Monitor

February 25, 2019

The recent Primary Leaving Examinations and Uganda Certificate of Education national examination results were followed by a couple of events, one of which was a heated social media debate on…

PISA Is a Unique Resource for Testing Educational Attainment of 15-Year-Olds in 78 Countries. Adding 40 More Would Be a Mistake