Portugal: The PISA Effects on Education

From the bottom of the league table for PISA 2000 Portugal has raised to the OCDE average being the only OECD member that showed, up to PISA 2018, consistent growth in reading, mathematics, and science. This chapter gives a brief description of the Portug

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proving a Country’s Education PISA 2018 Results in 10 Countries

Improving a Country’s Education

Nuno Crato Editor

Improving a Country’s Education PISA 2018 Results in 10 Countries

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Editor Nuno Crato Mathematics and Statistics, ISEG University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal

ISBN 978-3-030-59030-7 ISBN 978-3-030-59031-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59031-4

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Preface

This book is probably one of the first to be published, or even the first, about the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018. It discusses how PISA results in ten different countries have evolved and what makes countries change. Information on each country’s educational system contextualizes the discussion about PISA and other Large-Scale International Assessments’ results, such as TIMSS, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies. One reason only made it possible for us to present this work to the reader with such a short delay after PISA results were published in December 2019: we were very fortunate to be able to gather an exceptionally knowledgeable and generous group of international experts. The ten countries discussed in this volume represent a wide variety of educational s