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Report being prepared to explain PISA disqualification

Published by SchoolAdvisor | Dec 16, 2016 The Education Ministry came under scrutiny last week when Malaysia's Programme for Inter­national Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 results were released with a lack of evidence.On Dec 7, it was reported that Malaysian students had improved in Mathematics, Reading and Science under the PISA 2015 compared with Malaysia's score in 2012. The Education Ministry has been questioned for claiming that Malaysian students had achieved higher scored when in fact it was disqualified from the ranking.It was reported that Malaysia followed all protocols and procedures implemented on all technical standards for PISA 2015, except that there was an insufficient number of schools that responded and the data was disqualified.See: Malaysian PISA results under scrutiny for lack of evidence The Education Ministry is currently preparing a report to explain Malaysia's disqualification from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, its Deputy Education Minister Datuk Chong Sin Woon said.He added that the ministry committee in charge of Mathematics, Reading and Science will release the full details to explain the inadequate sampling which resulted in the disqualification, The Star daily reported today.In a separate statement, the Parents Action Group for Education (PAGE) said the ministry  must explain why only 51 percent of those assessed were from schools, falling short of the 85 percent requirement for Malaysia to be ranked on PISA 2015.PISA 2015 includes data from 72 countries and economies, including all 35 OECD members and 37 other countries and economies. In some cases, regions stand in for countries: Taiwan’s results are based on testing in Taipei, in Argentina only the city of Buenos Aires participated, and in mainland China, four provinces—Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong (B-S-J-G) participated.Read: One small country has raced past all others in the world's biggest education assessment