Do PISA data justify PISA-based education policy?

Beyond Pisa 2015: a Longer-term Strategy of Pisa

d) PISA assesses both subject matter content knowledge, on the one hand, and the capacity of individuals to apply that knowledge creatively, including in unfamiliar contexts, on the other. Until now PISA has assessed students in three main domains in each round: reading, mathematics and science. These domains cover some of the fundamental skills needed to continue on with higher education or su...

Anonymous Internet Infrastructure based on PISA Agents

A vital requirement for e-commerce today is privacy. We explore the area of privacy for Agents in the Privacy Incorporated Software Agent (PISA) project. We first review existing privacy protection techniques: pseudonym systems, privacy enhancing technology (PET) and anonymous communication networks. We then propose a model for an Anonymous Internet Infrastructure (AII), an anonymous Internet b...

The PISA method simplified.

We have read with interest the study by Messika-Zeitoun et al. 1 showing that using a fixed angle value of 100 provides an accurate estimation of the miral valve area (MVA) by the proximal isove-locity surface area (PISA) method in patients with mitral stenosis (MS). We appreciate the study as a means to make PISA method more popular in assessing the MVA. Although not cited in the article, we a...

Panel Estimates from PISA

Seeing education with one's own eyes and through PISA lenses: considerations of the reception of PISA in European countries

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