Taking PISA Seriously: How Accurate are Low Stakes Exams? / Ş. Pelin Akyol, Kala Krishna, Jinwen Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akyol, Ş. Pelin.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Krishna, Kala.

Wang, Jinwen.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24930.

NBER working paper series no. w24930

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Taking PISA Seriously

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, being a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate rankings. This paper provides a method to identify and account for non-serious behavior in low-stakes exams by leveraging information in computer-based assessments in PISA 2015. We compare the score/rankings with no corrections to those generated using the PISA approach as well as our method which fully corrects for the bias. We show that the total bias is large and that the PISA approach corrects for only about half of it.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2018.