International Schools' Assessment
Uses of ISA
How can ISA assessment data be used to improve learning?
- to measure individual students' achievement in order to reflect on and
address strengths and weaknesses
- to monitor an individual's or group's progress
over time
- to evaluate instructional programs against objective evidence
of student performance, to diagnose gaps, and to measure growth in learning
between grade levels and from year to year within one grade level
- to
compare subgroup performance (e.g. girls and boys; students from different
language backgrounds) to see where there may be unexpected results and
try to understand them
- to provide normative data in relation to selected
population to see "how
we are doing"
What kinds of comparisons will be provided?
- Each participating school with all other participating schools
- Each participating
school with "like schools" - other international
schools with similar profiles (NB no individual school results will be
supplied to other schools)
- Ninth and tenth grade international school
students with international results and national groups for 15-year-olds
from 45 countries (via PISA data)
