The Secretary of Educational Policies has contacted those responsible for PISA and has cleared up all the doubts that the department had about the representativeness of the sample. After Educació attributed the poor results to an overrepresentation of the newly arrived population in the sample, the department has now concluded, after contacting the study’s authors, that the sample was correct.
“From the conversations, the quality of the PISA sample has been clarified. The divergences in the interpretation of the representativeness of the sample have been cleared up and all doubts about the representativeness of the sample with respect to social reality have been ruled out,” sources from Educació have said.
The ministry attributes the first analysis to “the current limitation of the indicators and studies of the department and other institutions to understand reality in more detail and the increase in complexity, especially pronounced in Catalonia.”
In this sense, in the conversation, possible new analyzes and studies have been pointed out to understand the school-age population in greater depth in order to be able to make more informed decisions.
The department has conveyed to those responsible for PISA “complete confidence in the quality and rigor of the tests”, but it has raised challenges that it considers relevant, especially about “how to improve the mechanisms and methodologies to analyze the complexity or how to better interpret PISA and existing data to improve the educational system.”
The Minister of Education, Anna Simó, referred to the results of the PISA report and admitted that “there are no excuses.” In a message on the social network
“This is about child poverty and school segregation,” stressed the minister, who said that the Catalan executive is “working like no one else to address it.”
