Ken Jones’s lecture was a discussion about what is PISA (Programme
for International Student Assessment) and about education in Wales.
Jones (2012) explained that PISA is an international study
which begin in 2000. The aim of the study is to discover and asses education
systems worldwide, they find out this information by testing 15 year old
students on their skills and their know knowledge. Since PISA was introduced 70
countries have participated in the PISA test. After the tests have been carried
out the different countries which have participated in the tests are ranked. The OCED website says (July 2010) ‘PISA
focus 6 examines the impact of grade repetition on education systems throughout
the world.’
Jones (2012) then went on to discuss how what score the UK
countries had in their PISA results. I was quite surprised when Jones (2012)
told us that Wales were ranked very low because they hadn’t scored very well in
their PISA results, the reason why I was surprised was because there’s a lot of
funding . After we were told this Jones (2012) then described the improvements
which will be needed to be done all over the UK to increase their ranking.
These improvements could be such things as more LSA’s in the classroom to help
the pupils who struggle or maybe just more funding in school. He also stated
that it will be Leighton Andrews (Minister of Education and Skills) job to
improve Wales’s PISA ranking.
This again was an interesting lecture because I didn’t know Wales
were performing that bad compared to other countries and I belief that there has
to be something done about it to make a massive improvement on our ranking so
we can be just as good as the top PISA countries.
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