HLEG thematic workshop on Measurement of Well Being and Development in Africa, 12-14 November 2015, Durban, South Africa, More information at: www.oecd.org/statistics/measuring-economic-social-progress
6. Employment rates among adults by
educational attainment (2013)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Tertiary education Upper secondary or post-secondary non-tertiary Below upper secondary
%
Source: OECD (2015), Education at a Glance Interim Report: Update of Employment and Educational Attainment
Indicators, OECD, Paris, www.oecd.org/edu/EAG-Interim-report.pdf.
7. • Measurement of quantity (access to
education) to quality (outcomes of education)
and equity
• PISA (Programme for International Student
Assessment)
• PIAAC (Programme for the International
Assessment of Adult Competencies)
• PISA for Development
7
From quantity to quality
8. 88
Poverty isn’t destiny
PISA performance by decile of social background
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Mexico
Chile
Greece
Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Israel
Italy
UnitedStates
Spain
Denmark
Luxembourg
Australia
Ireland
UnitedKingdom
Hungary
Canada
Finland
Austria
Turkey
Liechtenstein
CzechRepublic
Estonia
Portugal
Slovenia
SlovakRepublic
NewZealand
Germany
Netherlands
France
Switzerland
Poland
Belgium
Japan
Macao-China
HongKong-China
Korea
Singapore
ChineseTaipei
Shanghai-China
Source: PISA 2012
9. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Below upper secondary education Upper secondary or post-secondary non-tertiary education Tertiary education
9
Numeracy outcomes
Proportion of 25-64 year-olds scoring at PIAAC numeracy level
4 and 5, by educational attainment of the population (2012)
10. 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300
ScoreAverage16-65year-olds
Literacy skills in younger
and older generations
Average16-24year-olds
Korea
Germany
Norway
Average55-65year-olds
Spain
Finland
France
US
UK
12. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Health Volunteering
Below level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4/5
Proportion of adults reporting that they are in good health and that they volunteer at least once a
month, by PIAAC numeracy proficiency, OECD Average
Social outcomes of education: Health and Volunteering
%
13. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4/5
Proportion of adults reporting that they trust others, by PIAAC numeracy proficiency
Social outcomes of education: Trust
%
14. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4/5
%
Social outcomes of education: Political engagement
Proportion of adults reporting that they believe they have a say in government, by PIAAC numeracy proficiency
16. Can we develop a framework that embraces the diversity of
contexts in which students learn, teachers teach & school
systems operate?
• Comparable to facilitate peer-learning
• Country-specific to be meaningful & interpretable in national contexts
Can we improve the relevance, quality & reliability of
performance measurement?
• Establishing measures that work in a wider range of countries
Can we extend measurement to children not enrolled in formal
education?
• Establishing policy-incentives for inclusiveness
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PISA for Development - How far can we go with
expanding PISA as we know it?
17. 17
Main project outputs
1. Contextual questionnaires & data-collection instruments adapted
to a wider range of economic and social contexts
2. The descriptive power of cognitive assessments in reading, maths &
science enhanced to meet a wider range of student abilities
3. An approach developed for including out-of-school 15 year-olds in
the assessments.
4. Country capacity in assessment, analysis & use of results for
monitoring & improvement strengthened among participating
countries.
5. Engagement established with pilot countries, development partners
& with other developing countries to identify peer-to-peer learning
opportunities regarding participation in PISA & its potential
contribution to the UN-led discussions on the post-2015 framework
18. Post-2015 education targets focus on quality
with equity will require use of surveys that
capture individual characteristics,
e.g., gender, location & socioeconomic status.
• PISA can help: PISA as a potential metric
for measuring progress towards a
learning goal in the context of the post-
2015 agenda
Post-2015: Quality with equity
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And there is no way you can see better that poverty isn’t destiny when you look at PISA performance by decile of social background. You see that the 10% most disadvantaged kids in Mexico do much less well than the 10% kids from the most privileged background. If you are from a poor family in Chile, you do worse than if you are from a poor background in Mexico. But what’s so interesting is that social background plays out so differently across countries. At one extreme, the 10% most disadvantaged children in Shanghai outperform the most privileged kids in many other countries.
Young Koreans, for example, are outperformed only by their Japanese counterparts, while Korea’s 55 to 64 year-olds are among the three lowest-performing groups of this age across all participating countries. Every decade, Korea has been the equivalent of two years in quality, wihtout raising quantity.
The results from Finland tell a similar story.
But progress has been uneven. Young Brits and Americans are entering a much more demanding job market with similar literacy and numeracy skills as their compatriots who are retiring. The talent pool in these countries could shrink significantly over the next decades unless urgent action is taken both to improve schooling and to provide adults with better opportunities to develop and maintain their skills
(17) So we measured not only the skills that people have, but also how they use their reading, writing, numeracy and problem-solving skills at work. You see the average skill use across countries here in grey.
Americans did not do so well on our skills survey, but compared with the average, they use the skills they have at work, and the economy extracts good value from these skills. Compare that with the Japanese, they read, they write, but they don’t solve many problems - maybe they have no problems.
Think about it, here you have the country with the highest skills, but the economy does not transform those skills into better jobs and better lives. And that’s because rigid labour-market arrangements in Japan prevent many high-skilled people, most notably women, from reaping rewards from their skills.