The Looming Trials of PISA

This new article is published on the Upstart Scotland website.

By Dr Philip Hood, Associate Professor in the School of Education

After the ‘success’ in popular media terms of the PISA test programme to supply international league tables of attainment at age fifteen years in core subjects, the OECD has turned its attention to early learning and development. The proposal is for a new set of tests (IELS) aimed at children between four and a half and five and a half years old, that is before the end of the (F2) Reception Year in England and of P1 in Scotland.

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