How did Spain perform in PISA 2018? New estimates of children’s PISA reading scores

John Jerrim, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo and Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez
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John Jerrim: University College London
Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo: Universidad de Málaga

No 20-01, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: International large-scale assessments have gained much attention since the beginning of the 21st century, influencing education legislation in many countries. This includes Spain, where they have been used by successive governments to justify education policy change. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the PISA 2018 reading scores for this country, meaning the OECD has thus far refused to release the results. This has caused much frustration amongst policymakers and other interest groups in Spain, particularly as reading was the subject of focus. Therefore, in this paper we attempt to estimate the likely PISA 2018 reading scores for Spain, and for each region within. We find that Spanish reading scores are likely to have fallen to between 475 and 483 test points in 2018, a decline of around 13 to 21 points (approximately 0.13-0.21 standard deviations) compared to 2015.

Keywords: PISA; multiple imputation; international large-scale assessments; reading; 2018 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01-01
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