Interpreting PISA - Understanding national educational improvement - the case of Portugal

Tue 24 November 2020

Teams Live event

Interpreting PISA - Understanding national educational improvement - the case of Portugal

How an ambitious curriculum, aligned assessment, and focus on all students improved education in Portugal.
Portugal has been highlighted as a particular success story in curriculum and educational reform. This success can be seen in the country’s leap in PISA scores. But for a sound understanding in public policy we need to be clear about what caused which improvement, and when.

To help provide this clarity, Tim Oates CBE will introduce Professor Nuno Crato OIH, former Minister of Education and Science in Portugal (2011–2015), who will share his insights at this Cambridge Assessment Network seminar.

Professor Crato will trace progress back to specific policy measures and some longer trends. He will describe recent periods of Portuguese education changes and will maintain that good national results need a good and clear curriculum, school autonomy, regular assessment, support to all, vocational paths, and flexibility.

This will be explained against the backdrop of a recent comparative study of 10 countries’ results in PISA.

Cost: Free