PISA 2012 Organization

Initiator

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), OECD Secretariat

Responsible for the day-to-day management of PISA, which includes

  • Monitoring survey implementation
  • Management of administrative matters for the PISA Governing Board,
  • Consensus-building among countries and intermediation between the PISA Governing Board and the PISA Consortium
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Study director(s)

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) - Ray Adams, International Project Director

  • Overall management
  • Development of the mathematics framework
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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

  • Determines the policy priorities for PISA
  • Oversees these policies during implementation of each PISA survey

 

National project managers

The PISA national project managers are appointed by their respective government.

Responsibility

  • Oversee the implementation of PISA in each participating country/economy

 

International consortium

Achieve (United States)

  • Development of the mathematics framework

 

The (other) Consortium partners

Include

  • cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control (Belgium)
  • Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF, Germany)
  • Educational Testing Service (ETS, United States)
  • Institutt for Lærerutdanning og Skoleutvikling (ILS, Norway)
  • Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN, Germany)
  • National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER, Japan)
  • The Tao Initiative: CRP - Henri Tudor and Université de Luxembourg - EMACS (Luxembourg)
  • Unité d’analyse des systèmes et des pratiques d’enseignement (aSPe, Belgium)
  • Westat (United States)

Responsibilities

  • Design and implementation of the surveys

 

Subject matter expert groups

These groups consist of world experts in each respective area

  • PISA 2012 Mathematics Expert Group (10 members)
  • PISA 2012 Problem-solving Expert Group (8 members)
  • PISA 2012 Financial Literacy Expert Group (8 members)

Responsibility

  • Design of the theoretical framework for the survey

 

Questionnaire Expert Group (QEG)

The PISA 2012 QEG has 8 members, selected by the PISA Governing Board.

Responsibility

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

OECD PISA                                                         

2 rue André Pascal

75775 Paris Cedex 16

E-mail: edu.pisa@oecd.org

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Funding

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

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

Francesco Avvisati, Analyst, OECD

 

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