Education – Nuno Crato

Setting up the Scene: Lessons Learned from PISA 2018 Statistics and Other International Student Assessments

January 29, 2021February 27, 2021

Research

Jannuary, 2021

Authors: Nuno Crato

PISA 2018 was the largest large-scale international assessment to date. Its results confirm the improvements of some countries, the challenges other countries face, and the decline observed in a few others. This chapter reflects on the detailed analyses of ten countries policies, constraints, and evolutions. It highlights key factors, such as investment, curriculum, teaching, and student assessment. And it concludes by arguing that curriculum coherence, an emphasis on knowledge, student observable outcomes, assessment, and public transparency are key elements. These elements are crucial both for education success in general and for its reflection on PISA and other international assessments.

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Interpreting PISA- The case of Portugal

November 22, 2020February 27, 2021

Events

Next 24 November I will talk with Tim Oates about curriculum and education reform in Portugal at Cambridge Assessment Network seminar.

Letters to a new minister: A few things I wish I knew when I came to office

May 5, 2020February 11, 2021

Advocacy

“A few months after becoming minister, I used to say that “no one who has never before been an education minister should ever become an education minister”. This silly joke wasn’t usually understood. But what I meant was clear to me: this is the type of job for which we are always unprepared.”

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