INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION MEASUREMENTS AND SCOPE Presented By G.GOUTHAMAN PG TEACHER /TECHNICAL SUPPORT GROUP. RMSA, TIRUVARUR

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD PISA (PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT) “Measuring Innovation in Education: A New Perspective, Educational Research and Innovation.”

Do teachers innovate? Do they try different pedagogical approaches? Are practices within classrooms and educational organisations changing? And to what extent can change be linked to improvements?

Necessity of Innovation  The ability to measure innovation is essential to an improvement strategy in education.  Knowing whether, and how much, practices are changing within classrooms and educational organisations,  how teachers develop and use their pedagogical resources, and to what extent change can be linked to improvements would provide a substantial increase in the international education knowledge base.

 Measuring Innovation in Education offers new perspectives to address this need for measurement in educational innovation through a comparison of innovation in education to innovation in other sectors  identification of specific innovations across educational systems, and construction of metrics to examine the relationship between educational innovation and changes in educational outcomes.

Innovations in organizational practice and policy More use of student assessments for monitoring school progress More use of assessments for national or district benchmarking. More use of assessment data to inform parents of student progress More external evaluation of secondary school classrooms More parental service on secondary school committees

Innovations in Pedagogic practice More observation and description in secondary school science lessons. More individualized reading instruction in primary school classrooms. More use of answer explanation in primary mathematics. More relating of primary school lessons to everyday life. More text interpretation in primary lessons

21 st Century Education -Ideas Open up lessons Think outside the classroom box Get personal Tap into students’ digital expertise Get real with projects

21 st Century Education -Ideas Expect (and help) students to be teachers Help (and expect) teachers to be students Measure what matters Work with families, not just children Power to the studen