ISA - Uses of ISA

International Schools' Assessment (ISA)

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Uses of ISA

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"

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)
8th, 9th and 10th grade international school students with international results and national groups for 15-year-olds from 65 countries (via PISA data)

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