Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
For The PISA Lite Project
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Amount$1,020,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/19/2010
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Term9 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The OECD's Programme for International Assessment of Student Achievement (PISA) is the most comprehensive, rigorous international measure of student performance to date, providing an independent assessment of quality and equity in schooling as well as insight into policy levers that raise standards. The assessment is administered every three years, generally at the country level, but often also at the state level. This proposal is to develop a test aligned to PISA that offers schools or districts individual results yet has fewer administrative burdens. Funding would support developing and implementing the test, reporting results, and replenishing the pool of test questions. The project will be directed by Andreas Schleicher, PISA's international project coordinator, who spoke to the Board at its March meeting.
About the Grantee
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Address
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Grants to this Grantee
for PARIS21’s Toward Inclusive Climate Change Data Ecosystems project
In close consultation and coordination with the Center for Open Data Enterprise and Open Data Watch (ODW), PARIS21 will help develop an ecosystem in Senegal for climate change data to help improve its climate change data practices, governance, and use. Work in Senegal will include a detailed assessment of climate change-related data availability and use practices, identify data sources and actors, and ultimately develop a plan for improving the collection, governance, management, and use of climate data in that country. As part of the assessment process, PARIS21 will produce a General Climate Data Template that can be a starting point for creating a national inventory of global, regional, and local climate data requirements and needs in Senegal. PARIS21 will also complete a template on Open Climate Data to assess climate change data availability, openness, and use in several countries, drawing on ODW’s Open Data Inventory as a context for examining those issues in Senegal. Ultimately, this pilot in Senegal will create a scalable collaboration model to help other countries also leverage climate change data to advance effective and inclusive climate change adaptation policies while supporting international efforts around climate change mitigation. This grant will supplement the main grant supporting this work, by providing resources for French-English translation services for the key deliverables, and workshops. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for PARIS21’s Toward Inclusive Climate Change Data Ecosystems project
In close consultation and coordination with the Center for Open Data Enterprise and Open Data Watch (ODW), the OECD/PARIS21 will help develop an ecosystem in a selected pilot country for climate change data to help improve its climate change data practices, governance, and use. Work in the pilot country will include a detailed assessment of climate change-related data availability and use practices, identify data sources and actors, and ultimately develop a plan for improving the collection, governance, management, and use of climate data in that country. As part of the assessment process, the OECD/PARIS21 will produce a General Climate Data Template that can be a starting point for creating a national inventory of global, regional, and local climate data requirements and needs in the pilot country. The OECD/PARIS21 will also complete a template on Open Climate Data to assess climate change data availability, openness, and use in several countries, drawing on ODW’s Open Data Inventory, as a context for examining those issues in the pilot country. Ultimately, the pilot will create a scalable collaboration model to help other countries also leverage climate change data to advance effective and inclusive climate change adaptation policies while supporting international efforts around climate change mitigation. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for refinement and global scale-up of the PISA-based Test for Schools
OECD proposes to advance the PISA-Based Test for Schools pilot through refinements that include shifting to computer delivery of the test and laying the groundwork for its worldwide expansion. Australia, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom/England, and Hong Kong/China have expressed interest in adopting the assessment.
