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What Is Changing in the Classroom Internationally? Measuring Innovation for Improvement

Sat, April 6, 12:20 to 1:50pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 100 Level, Room 103 A&B

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) launched its new report Measuring Innovation in Education 2019: What Has Changed in the Classroom?. Based on the secondary analysis of PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS data, it examines what has (or has not) changed for students over the past decade in OECD and some non-OECD education systems. It reviews about 150 educational practices and provides synthetic composite indices of innovation.

The report casts light on systemic innovation in primary and secondary education, with a focus on pedagogical innovation. Some of the questions the book informs are: Has the use of technology spread? Have assessments become more important in pedagogical practices? Are students given more agency in their learning? Are they still asked to memorise facts and procedures? Do teachers increasingly engage students in peer learning activities? The report also presents some preliminary findings about the links between innovation and educational performance.

Beyond presenting and discussing these new findings, the symposium will discuss how measuring innovation in education could help better understand its different modalities, drivers and impediments of innovation, how innovation contributes to educational improvement, and what different approaches could be taken to better link innovation to improvement. It will also discuss which instruments are available within countries and internationally to measure both incremental and radical innovation within education systems, and how they guide the investment in educational resaresearch evaluation.

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