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Is the sky the limit to educational improvement?
Woodrow Wilson Center ConferenceWashington, D.C., 16 July 2009
Prof. Andreas SchleicherHead, Indicators and Analysis Division
OECD Directorate for Education
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There is nowhere to hideThe yardstick for success is no longer improvement by national
standards but the best performing education systems
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A world of change in baseline qualificationsApproximated by percentage of persons with high school or equivalent qualfications
in the age groups 55-64, 45-55, 45-44 und 25-34 years
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r Rising higher education qualifications seem generally not to have led to an “inflation” of the labour-market value of qualifications.
In all but three of the 20 countries with available data, the earnings benefit increased between 1997 and 2003, in Germany, Italy and Hungary by between 20% and 40%
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Moving targetsFuture supply of high school graduates
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How the demand for skills has changedEconomy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US)
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Coverage of world economy 77%81%83%85%86%87%
OECD’s PISA assessment of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds
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Average performanceof 15-year-olds in science – extrapolate and apply
High science performance
Low science performance… 18 countries perform below this line
Israel
ItalyPortugal Greece
Russian FederationLuxembourgSlovak Republic,Spain,
Iceland LatviaCroatia
SwedenDenmarkFrancePoland
Hungary
AustriaBelgiumIreland
Czech Republic SwitzerlandMacao-ChinaGermanyUnited Kingdom
Korea
JapanAustralia
SloveniaNetherlandsLiechtenstein
New ZealandChinese Taipei
Hong Kong-China
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CanadaEstonia
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Average performanceof 15-year-olds in science – extrapolate and apply
Low average performance
Large socio-economic disparities
High average performance
Large socio-economic disparities
Low average performance
High social equity
High average performance
High social equity
Strong socio-economic impact on
student performance
Socially equitable distribution of learning
opportunities
High science performance
Low science performance
Israel
ItalyPortugal Greece
Russian FederationLuxembourgSlovak Republic,Spain,
Iceland LatviaCroatia
SwedenDenmarkFrancePoland
Hungary
AustriaBelgiumIreland
Czech Republic SwitzerlandMacao-ChinaGermanyUnited Kingdom
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JapanAustralia
SloveniaNetherlandsLiechtenstein
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Low average performance
Large socio-economic disparities
High average performance
Large socio-economic disparities
Low average performance
High social equity
High average performance
High social equity
Strong socio-economic impact on
student performance
Socially equitable distribution of learning
opportunities
High science performance
Low science performance
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How to get thereSome policy levers that emerge from
international comparisons
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Money matters - but other things do too
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High ambitions and universal standards
Rigor, focus and coherence
Great systems attract great teachers and
provide access to best practice and quality
professional development
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Challenge and support
Weak support
Strong support
Lowchallenge
Highchallenge
Strong performance
Systemic improvement
Poor performance
Improvements idiosyncratic
Conflict
Demoralisation
Poor performance
Stagnation
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High ambitions
Access to best practice and quality professional
development
Accountability and intervention in
inverse proportion to success
Devolved responsibility,
the school as the centre of action
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in science
School autonomy, standards-basedexaminations and science performance
School autonomy in selecting teachers for hire
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Strong ambitions
Access to best practice and quality professional
development
Accountability
Devolvedresponsibility,
the school as the centre of action
Integrated educational
opportunities
From prescribed forms of teaching and assessment towards personalised learning
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Paradigm shifts
Prescription Informed profession
Uniformity Embracing diversity
Demarcation Collaboration
Provision Outcomes
Bureaucratic – look up Devolved – look outwards
Talk equity Deliver equity
Hit & miss Universal high standards
Received wisdom Data and best practice
The old bureaucratic education system The Finnish education system
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Why care?r Progress
Concerns about skill barriers to economic growth, productivity growth and rates of technological innovation
– One additional year of education equals to between 3 and 6% of GDP
– Rising tertiary level qualifications seem generally not to have led to an “inflation” of the labour-market value of qualifications (in all but three of the 20 countries with available data, the earnings benefit increased between 1997 and 2003, in Germany, Italy and Hungary by between 20% and 40%)
r FairnessConcerns about the role of skills in creating social inequity in economic outcomes
– Both average and distribution of skill matter to long-term growth (high percentages of low skill impede growth)
r Value for moneyConcerns about the demand for, and efficiency and effectiveness of, investments in public goods
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