School Policies and Practices at Upper Secondary Schools in Turkey According to PISA 2009 Data
In this study, the question “According to PISA 2009 data, what is the situation of the school policies and practices at upper secondary schools in Turkey?” was answered. Study group included 150 principals at upper secondary schools, which were taken into PISA 2009 Turkey sample. The data related to school policies and practices used in this study were derived from OECD database of which were the responses of school principals to the questions placed in the part F of the PISA 2009 school questionnaire. The dimensions of study are as follows: The considered factors in admitting students to school; grouping students; the reasons for transferring students; using assessment of student data in declaration/transparency and monitoring-developing; the methods for monitoring the practice of teachers; using assessment of student data in evaluation of teachers’ and principal’s performance. Using data from the PISA 2009, the findings suggest that equity is not taken sufficiently into account for school policies and practices, and administrative accountability is used predominantly rather than professional accountability.
Trends analysis in the investigations realised from the data of the PISA project
espanolEste estudio es parte de una investigacion mas amplia que pretende disenar un modelo de analisis de evaluaciones de sistemas educativos que permita valorar su aportacion para la cohesion social (Jornet, 2012). El punto de partida son investigaciones previas sobre el papel de las variables de contexto, de entrada y de proceso en las evaluaciones de sistemas educativos, que frecuentemente cuidan mucho mas la justificacion teorica y la calidad metrica de las variables de producto que estas otras, que finalmente ayudan a interpretar los resultados. En este caso realizamos revision de los trabajos cientifico-academicos del corte empirico, publicados entre los anos 2000 y 2012, que utilizan bases de datos PISA. La metodologia se estructura en dos fases: identificacion y seleccion de los documentos para formar una base y posterior analisis de cada uno de los documentos con el fin de extraer indicadores que nos permitieran realizar un analisis exploratorio. Algunos resultados hacen pensar que las bases de datos PISA estan infrautilizadas, sobre todo por los investigadores en el campo de educacion. EnglishThis study is part of a broader research that aims to design a model of analysis of educational systems assessment, based in social cohesion (Jornet, 2012). The starting point is located in previous research about the context variables; it is cared more frequently a theoretical justification and metric quality of output variables, leaving aside the variables that can help interpret the results. In our case, we conducted a review of the scientific literature, based in empirical papers that use PISA database and published between 2000 and 2012. The methodology is structured in two phases: identification and selection of documents and further analysis of these documents. The analysis of documents consists of identifying certain indicators in order to explore. Some results suggest that researchers in the field of education underuse PISA databases.
Measurement and Modeling Choices in Studies of Time and Learning
The consequences of using alternative measures of time and achievement are examined in an observational study of 18 elementary school classes. Of the four measures of time used—scheduled time, actual instructional time, engaged time and engaged rate—the engagement measures produced the more consequential effects of time for learning. Nonetheless, measures of allocated time are still important because they provide the constraints within which the results for engagement time must be interpreted. Mathematics achievement, measured as standardized and as chapter specific tests, was not consistently related to the time measures. This paper examines the extent to which the choice of the same model linking time and learning for all students was implicated in these inconsistent results.