Pisa education league tables are useless and based on profound conceptual error

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Why the Pisa league tables are faulty.

Read the paper by a Queen’s University, Belfast mathematics academic. bit.ly/MorrisonBelfast.
If you can find an error in the paper contact him at h.morrison@qub.ac.uk
Otherwise as Andreas Schleicher of OECD Pisa is oft quoted as saying,

“Remember, without data you are just another person with an opinion.”

It should be noted that the TES have now confirmed in two different issues that Schleicher’s OECD Pisa have no answer, just opinions, on the conceptual error charge

TES reports: Pisa rankings are “utterly wrong”.

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The Times Educational Supplement published a news article on July 19th 2013 claiming that academic experts say global league tables beloved by politicians are “useless”.

The OECD Pisa response did not address the claims of one academic, Dr Hugh Morrison, who stated that the modelused by Pisa to calculate the rankings is, on its own terms, “utterly wrong” because it contains a “profound” conceptual error and accordingly “Pisa will never work” Indeed Pisa admitted “Large variation in single ranking positions is likely” and “country rankings are shown in the form of ranges rather than single ranking positions”

As might have been expected the teaching unions have rushed to use the academics’ criticisms of Pisa as a justification for attacking Michael Gove’s education policies.

Access Dr Morrison’s paper here: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEducation/AboutUs/Staff/Academic/DrHughMorrison/