Examples of using Pisa in English and their translations into Thai
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In 1086-1087 a coalition of Italian cities of Genoa, Pisa, Amalfi, Salerno and Gaeta arranged an anti-piracy operation. They took Mahdia by storm and burned all the ships in the harbor. The city was plundered, all the valuable was taken away. Given the latter fact, the question is ripening: was it an anti-piracy operation or just a pirate operation. The exported values were subsequently spent on the construction of the Pisa Cathedral.
But PISA has shown what's possible in education.
Average PISA scores all subjects.
This is how the world looked then in terms of PISA performance.
So with PISA, we try to change this by measuring the knowledge and skills of people directly.
With PISA, we wanted to measure how they actually deliver equity, in terms of ensuring that people from different social backgrounds have equal chances.
PISA has transformed that debate, and pushed early childhood education right at the center of public policy in Germany.
And the example of PISA shows that data can be more powerful than administrative control of financial subsidy through which we usually run education systems.
The OECD's Program for International Student Assessment(PISA) enables comparisons to be made between systems, and between counties.
But let's step back for a moment and focus on the countries that actually started PISA, and I'm giving them a colored bubble now.
That's also clear, and that's where some of the limits of international comparisons of PISA are.
That's where other forms of research need to kick in, and that's also why PISA doesn't venture into telling countries what they should be doing.
You just can't rely on the people out there to help you with this.(Laughter) But PISA has shown what's possible in education.
Congratulations to the students who got the highest of Reading Literacy Examination according to the International Student Assessment(PISA) 3.
Students of Chainatpittayakom school got a silver medal from the Youth Poetry activities of the new generation and PISA reading.
And even those people who complain and say that the relative standing of countries on something like PISA is just an artifact of culture, of economic factors, of social issues, of homogeneity of societies, and so on, these people must now concede that education improvement is possible.
Those are the critical questions, and what we have learned from PISA is that, in high-performing education systems, the leaders have convinced their citizens to make choices that value education, their future, more than consumption today.
You have seen Finland doing so well on PISA, but what makes Finland so impressive is that only five percent of the performance variation amongst students lies between schools.
But I want to tell you the story of PISA, OECD's test to measure the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds around the world, and it's really a story of how international comparisons have globalized the field of education that we usually treat as an affair of domestic policy.
The PISA data provides answers to these questions, through its surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialized countries. Every three years, it assesses to what extent students near the end of compulsory education, have acquired in knowledge and skills essential for participation in society. The questions are related to literacy, numeracy and science and more recently, digital literacy.