The U.S. and New Zealand educational systems have similar histories. Both have complex histories that include discrimination, reform, and power struggles. The New Zealand system is different from the U.S. system in one major way, though: size. The U.S. system actually has over 50 educational systems that are similar, but slightly different. The New Zealand system has … Continue reading History and Organization of NZ Schools
Month: July 2016
A Brief History of New Zealand
Now that I've spent some time talking about quantitative data from PISA, I want to take a step back and describe the history of New Zealand. Before I can get into my hypotheses as to why New Zealand performs better on PISA and also why the NZ scores are dropping, it is important to understand … Continue reading A Brief History of New Zealand
Math Performance: PISA2012
The 2012 PISA assessment focused heavily on math. Below are the relevant graphs and discussion. Score Distributions Both of these graphs come from the PISA2012 Results Volume 1 document. From these two graphs, we can see that New Zealand and the U.S. have approximately the same percentage of students below Level 2 mean scores in … Continue reading Math Performance: PISA2012
Score Distributions and Equity
This post is a continuation of the last PISA post. This post focuses on PISA2009 since that was the last Reading focused PISA assessment set. As I read through the document, PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do, I started wondering what else in the PISA data and reports can be used to … Continue reading Score Distributions and Equity
Robert E. Lang, Ed.D. 