Questions about PISA 2018, part 1: In Scotland, were key changes taken into account?
By IOE Blog Editor, on 22 April 2021
How much can we trust government reporting of key statistics? Not just the headline findings, but the basic details underpinning them? Those things that it’s important for consumers of data to know if they want to form their own independent judgement about the strength of the evidence available?
In my new paper released today, and forthcoming in the Review of Education, I report what I consider to be a worrying lack of transparency surrounding some aspects of the reporting of the PISA 2018 data for the UK.
This blog is the first in a series posted today looking into some of the (more…)