Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers

The Philippine Department of Education, despite seeing minimal improvements in the country’s score and rankings in the recent cycles of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) such as TIMSS and PISA, maintained that it shall continue to participate in ILSAs to monitor the progress of education...

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Main Authors: Garcia, Mark Lester B., Vistro-Yu, Catherine P
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.mathematics-faculty-pubs-12872024-10-31T04:56:56Z Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers Garcia, Mark Lester B. Vistro-Yu, Catherine P The Philippine Department of Education, despite seeing minimal improvements in the country’s score and rankings in the recent cycles of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) such as TIMSS and PISA, maintained that it shall continue to participate in ILSAs to monitor the progress of educational effectiveness and benchmark with other countries by observing and adopting commendable practices. While legislators and other stakeholders push for increased financial resources in the education sector as part of the country’s preparations for upcoming ILSAs, one crucial aspect that is largely overlooked is teacher training. This paper presents a viable yet contentious way of upskilling teachers – one that leverages ILSAs by training teachers to write or construct prototype items inspired by those in ILSAs. In this study, nine high school mathematics teachers participated in an item-writing seminar-workshop on constructing PISA-like items. As part of their in-service training, they were required to produce eight items each as individual outputs, which were then reviewed by external experts for feedback. Results from the experts’ qualitative and quantitative feedback showed that the teachers mostly produced satisfactory items that comply with the constraints posed by the PISA mathematics assessment framework, despite their initial difficulties in understanding it and its cognitive categories. 2024-08-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/286 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/mathematics-faculty-pubs/article/1287/viewcontent/Full_Paper___NCEME__Garcia___Vistro_Yu____For_Submission.pdf Mathematics Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo mathematics education large-scale assessments Philippines ILSA PISA TIMSS Education Mathematics Physical Sciences and Mathematics Science and Mathematics Education
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topic mathematics education
large-scale assessments
Philippines
ILSA
PISA
TIMSS
Education
Mathematics
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Science and Mathematics Education
spellingShingle mathematics education
large-scale assessments
Philippines
ILSA
PISA
TIMSS
Education
Mathematics
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Science and Mathematics Education
Garcia, Mark Lester B.
Vistro-Yu, Catherine P
Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers
description The Philippine Department of Education, despite seeing minimal improvements in the country’s score and rankings in the recent cycles of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) such as TIMSS and PISA, maintained that it shall continue to participate in ILSAs to monitor the progress of educational effectiveness and benchmark with other countries by observing and adopting commendable practices. While legislators and other stakeholders push for increased financial resources in the education sector as part of the country’s preparations for upcoming ILSAs, one crucial aspect that is largely overlooked is teacher training. This paper presents a viable yet contentious way of upskilling teachers – one that leverages ILSAs by training teachers to write or construct prototype items inspired by those in ILSAs. In this study, nine high school mathematics teachers participated in an item-writing seminar-workshop on constructing PISA-like items. As part of their in-service training, they were required to produce eight items each as individual outputs, which were then reviewed by external experts for feedback. Results from the experts’ qualitative and quantitative feedback showed that the teachers mostly produced satisfactory items that comply with the constraints posed by the PISA mathematics assessment framework, despite their initial difficulties in understanding it and its cognitive categories.
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author Garcia, Mark Lester B.
Vistro-Yu, Catherine P
author_facet Garcia, Mark Lester B.
Vistro-Yu, Catherine P
author_sort Garcia, Mark Lester B.
title Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers
title_short Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers
title_full Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers
title_fullStr Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers
title_full_unstemmed Leveraging International Large-Scale Assessments: Insights from an Item-Writing Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers
title_sort leveraging international large-scale assessments: insights from an item-writing professional development program for high school mathematics teachers
publisher Archīum Ateneo
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url https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/286
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