PISA 2015 Organization

Study director(s)

Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the United States - Irwin Kirsch, International Project Director

  • Overall management of contractors and implementation
  • Development of the computer platform
Institutions and their responsibilities

PISA Governing Board (PGB)

Composition

  • Representatives of OECD members and PISA associates (i.e., countries or economies that are not OECD members but have membership rights and obligations in regard to specific OECD bodies and programs)
  • Countries and economies that participate in PISA but do not have associate status are welcome to participate in PGB meetings as observers.
  • Representatives are appointed by their respective education ministries; the PGB chair is chosen by the board itself.

Responsibilities

  • Determination of policy priorities for PISA
  • Oversight of these policies during implementation of each PISA survey

 

National project managers

The PISA National Project Managers are appointed by their respective government.

Resonsibility

  • Oversight of implementation of PISA in each participating country/economy

 

International consortium

Pearson, United Kingdom

  • Development of assessment frameworks

 

Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor (CRP-HT) in Luxembourg:

  • Development of the computer platform

 

Westat, USA

  • Survey operations
  • Sampling

 

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

  • Samping

 

Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) in Germany

  • Focused on the questionnaire frameworks and questionnaire development

 

Statistics Canada

  • Focused on the questionnaire frameworks and questionnaire development

 

The other consortium partners

Include

  • cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control (Belgium)
  • University of Luxembourg
  • University of Heidelberg
  • GESIS
  • Center for Educational Technology (Israel)
  • Unité d’analyse des systèmes et des pratiques d’enseignement (aSPe) at the University of Liège (Belgium)
  • International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in the Netherlands
  • HallStat SPRL (Belgium)

The members of this group focused on instrument development, scaling, and analysis and performed (either individually or together with other members) tasks such as

  • Linguistic quality control
  • Test development
  • Coding training for open-constructed items
  • Providing data management software
  • Acting as translation referee

 

    Subject matter expert groups

    These groups consist of world experts in each area

    • PISA 2015 Science Expert Group (8 members + 8 members in the extended group)
    • PISA 2015 Collaborative Problem-solving Expert Group (6 members + 8 members in the extended group)

    Resonsibility

    • Design of the theoretical framework for the survey

     

    Questionnaire Expert Group (QEG)

    The PISA 2015 QEQ has 11 members, selected by the PISA Governing Board.

    Resonsibility

    • Leadership and guidance in the construction of the PISA context questionnaires
    Contact

    OECD PISA
    2 rue André Pascal
    75775 Paris Cedex 16

    E-mail: edu.pisa@oecd.org

    Funding

    PISA is exclusively financed through direct contributions from governmental authorities of the participating countries and economies, typically the education ministries.

    Editor(s) and author(s) of study-related gateway pages

    Francesco Avvisati, Analyst, OECD