There's a good lesson here. "Ask almost anyone how Australian students are going in tests of basic skills, and the perception is that results are getting progressively worse," Dr Larsen said. "In reality, student achievement is only declining in the PISA assessments." As is well known, Pisa creates its own standards for assessment, and doesn't assess what national curricula are actually teaching. This makes Pisa more than just a testing program - like most evaluations of this sort, it's actually a form of advocacy for a certain set of learning outcomes. But you wouldn't know this unless you compared Pisa results with other forms of testing, which is what this article does.
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