{"id":6014,"date":"2014-05-23T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2014-05-23T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:24:40","slug":"no-time-for-pisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/05\/23\/no-time-for-pisa\/","title":{"rendered":"No time for PISA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2014\/may\/06\/oecd-pisa-tests-education-joy-of-learning\">headline<\/a> in the Guardian recently which ran:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Global school tests under attack as OECD accused of killing 'joy of learning'<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It began:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Leading academics have accused the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of acting as an unaccountable super-ministry of education which kills the \"joy of learning<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2014\/may\/06\/academics-international-school-league-tables-killing-joy-of-learning\">\"<\/a> and turns schooling into \"drudgery\". \u00a0\u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2014\/may\/06\/oecd-pisa-tests-damaging-education-academics\">letter<\/a> signed by 120 leading academics and teachers from 12 countries \u2013 including Britain, the US and Germany \u2013 argues the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests on 15-year-olds distort the curriculum, reduce teachers' autonomy and increase children's stress levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What tosh! \u00a0In England at any rate, this 'joy' was killed a long time ago by teachers preparing youngsters for GCSEs and their equivalents. \u00a0The idea that they'd also have the time to include\u00a0PISA tests as well is ludicrous. \u00a0I note that no one from Wales signed the letter \u2013 probably because they\u00a0rather like the idea of teaching children how to pass PISA tests \u2013 it's a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/02\/21\/pity-the-children-of-wales\/\">strategy<\/a> (their only one I think) for rising up the PISA league table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a headline in the Guardian recently which ran: Global school tests under attack as OECD accused of killing 'joy of learning' It began: \u00a0Leading academics have accused the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of acting as...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}